President Biden is reportedly considering using his executive powers to tighten asylum standards and deny migrants seeking entry to the United States between ports of entry.
According to Politico, the proposals being discussed at the White House include increasing the threshold required for asylum seekers to meet a “credible fear standard” and prompting the deportation of those who don’t meet the new standard. It is said that it includes things to do.
The president is also considering executive action that would bar migrants from applying for asylum if they enter the United States illegally through areas along the porous southern border that have not been designated as official points of entry. The outlet reported. Â
The action is reportedly tied to a trigger and will only go off if a certain number of illegal crossings occur over an unspecified period of time.
The Senate’s bipartisan border deal included a similar mechanism that would allow Biden, 81, to close the border if the border averages more than 5,000 people per day in a week. The bill was strongly opposed by several Republicans and was never voted on in the Senate.
According to Politico, Biden could announce policy changes as early as next week, ahead of his March 7 State of the Union address.
However, no final decision has yet been made on whether to proceed with administrative action.
White House officials have argued that Congressional action on the border crisis is preferable to potential executive action, which lacks the funding and resources to carry out.
“The administration has spent months in good faith introducing the toughest, fairest, bipartisan border security bill in decades,” White said. We need to make significant policy reforms and provide additional funding,” House of Representatives spokesperson Angelo Fernández Hernández told the media.
He added: “No amount of aggressive executive action can deliver the significant policy reforms that Congress can provide or the additional resources that Republicans have rejected.”
Since Biden took office in 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have encountered more than 7 million migrants along the southern border, including 96 this year, according to CBP data. This includes 1,537 people.
A Pew Research Center poll released last week found that only 18% of those surveyed said the government was doing a good job of treating immigrants seeking to enter the U.S. at the southern border, while 80% said the government was doing a good job He said the government’s response to this historic disaster was poor. Rapid rise.
