Is it legal to cross the U.S. border to seek asylum?
Families escaping violence and persecution in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other countries in crisis have undertaken a dangerous journey to seek safety in the United States.
People arriving at the U.S. border have the right to request asylum without being criminalized, turned back, used for political stunts or separated from their children. Here’s how the process works:
Is seeking asylum legal?
Yes, seeking asylum is legal—even during a pandemic. Asylum seekers must be in the U.S. or at a port of entry (an airport or an official land crossing) to request the opportunity to apply for asylum. "There’s no way to ask for a visa or any type of authorization in advance for the purpose of seeking asylum,” says IRC director of asylum and immigration legal services Olga Byrne. “You just have to show up."
During the COVID-19 pandemic, epidemiologists and other public health experts have made clear that asylum seekers and their children can be safely processed at the border using public health measures.
People arriving at the U.S. border have the legal right to request asylum without being criminalized, turned back or separated from their children.
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The political calculus for DeSantis is he believes he has the FL gubernatorial race in the bag, and that immigration is a winning issue for him in his race for the presidency.
Just like all the other social wedge issues he flogs. All the time avoiding answering questions about exactly where he stands on various matters concerning abortion.
It's a little odd for the gov. of FL to be doing this to asylum seekers seeing as once upon a time the state welcomed asylum seekers trying to escape the communist regime in Cuba.
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