Well...Biden making an immigration move eh? 30,000 allowed per month or....360,000 per year.
The Biden administration is expanding its use of a pandemic-era border measure known as Title 42 to begin rapidly expelling migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, while opening a new legal path for up to 30,000 migrants from those countries to enter the U.S. each month.
The new policy represents the broadest effort yet that the Biden administration has undertaken to deter migrants seeking asylum from crossing the border illegally. It also relies on an expanded use of Title 42 as a border-control measure, even while the administration is arguing in court that the measure is no longer justified on public-health grounds and must end. The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Title 42 in February.
The new program will require migrants hoping to seek asylum in the U.S. to be paired with financial sponsors and would give applicants two years of humanitarian protections, under which they can work legally and apply for asylum.
Over the past year, migrants from these countries have made up a majority of those allowed to remain in the U.S. to seek asylum, and they have posed a particular challenge for the U.S. government because the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela have largely refused to take back their own citizens. Until recently, Mexico has also refused to take back migrants of those nationalities under Title 42.
Mexico has agreed in turn to take up to 30,000 migrants from the four countries under Title 42, meaning if the number of migrants crossing illegally exceeds that monthly cap, they will be allowed to remain in the U.S. to pursue asylum cases.
As of Thursday, any migrants who cross the borders of the U.S., Mexico or Panama illegally will be ineligible for the humanitarian program.
The Biden administration is expanding its use of a pandemic-era border measure known as Title 42 to begin rapidly expelling migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, while opening a new legal path for up to 30,000 migrants from those countries to enter the U.S. each month.
The new policy represents the broadest effort yet that the Biden administration has undertaken to deter migrants seeking asylum from crossing the border illegally. It also relies on an expanded use of Title 42 as a border-control measure, even while the administration is arguing in court that the measure is no longer justified on public-health grounds and must end. The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Title 42 in February.
The new program will require migrants hoping to seek asylum in the U.S. to be paired with financial sponsors and would give applicants two years of humanitarian protections, under which they can work legally and apply for asylum.
Over the past year, migrants from these countries have made up a majority of those allowed to remain in the U.S. to seek asylum, and they have posed a particular challenge for the U.S. government because the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela have largely refused to take back their own citizens. Until recently, Mexico has also refused to take back migrants of those nationalities under Title 42.
Mexico has agreed in turn to take up to 30,000 migrants from the four countries under Title 42, meaning if the number of migrants crossing illegally exceeds that monthly cap, they will be allowed to remain in the U.S. to pursue asylum cases.
As of Thursday, any migrants who cross the borders of the U.S., Mexico or Panama illegally will be ineligible for the humanitarian program.
