FILE - Venezuelan migrants wave a U.S. flag at a television helicopter that flew over the Rio Grande, in Matamoros, Mexico, on May 12, 2023, a day after pandemic-related asylum restrictions called Title 42 were lifted. President Joe Biden has ordered a halt to asylum processing at the U.S. border with Mexico when arrests for illegal entry top 2,500 a day, which was triggered immediately.
"The reality is that people still have the need to seek protection and safety regardless of any U.S. policy. And so this will only push people into more dangerous areas," said Garza. Alan Lizarraga with the Border Network for Human Rights called Biden's action "illegal" and "unsafe for migrant." This is going to put families and children and people who have asylum claims, in terrible conditions," said Lizarraga. "It's a human right. It is internationally recognized, and it's also US policy."There's not enough legal pathway for people to come to the US and that is resorting them to asylum as the only way for them up to the US," he said.When this law takes effect, which is immediately it's essentially going to shut that down.
Both Wirz and advocates believe the order will get challenged in the courts. Later in the day, the American Civil Liberties Union announced it plans to
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