The Biden administration is proposing a policy that would limit access to asylum. Critics called it a reversal of President Joe Biden's campaign promise to restore a humane asylum system.
Immigration advocates and some Democrats are condemning the Biden administration’s proposal to resurrect a Trump-era asylum transit ban.
The White House has pushed back on the Trump comparisons. But advocates said those comparisons are totally valid. Dozens of advocacy organizations issued statements condemning the proposed rule, including the Haitian Bridge Alliance, Alianza Americas, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, and American Friends Service Committee.
"Often, bona fide refugees don’t have travel documents, or they’re fleeing under the cover of night with nothing but the shirt on their backs to save their lives,” she said.
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