Biden is considering executive action to make it HARDER for asylum seekers to get into the U.S. and speed up deportations to reverse historic rise in border crossings
- President Biden is preparing an executive order that would raise standards during “credible fear interviews” for asylum seekers
- If Trump wins in 2024, he would carry out ‘the largest domestic deportation operation in American history’ by involving the military at the border
- READ: House votes to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
President Joe Biden is now considering taking executive action to increase standards for processing and screening asylum seekers at the southern border.
It comes after the House voted earlier this month to impeach Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, for a breach of public trust and a “deliberate and systematic refusal to comply with the law.”
Meanwhile, a former senior administration official from Donald Trump’s White House said he is “obsessed” with involving the military at the southern border. according to The Washington Post.
And if elected to another term, Trump has promised he would prioritize re-tightening the southern border and said there would be “the largest domestic deportation” in US history with him at the helm .
President Joe Biden is preparing to issue an executive order that would raise standards during ‘credible fear interviews’ for asylum seekers crossing the southern border
According to a report Wednesday, the order would adopt a “last in, first out” policy that would more quickly deport asylum-seeking migrants who do not meet reasonable fear requirements. Pictured: Migrants cross the US-Mexico border under barbed wire on February 6, 2024
The southern border crisis, the economy and Biden’s advancing age are all major concerns for voters heading into the 2024 presidential election.
To address the first problem, Biden is considering bypassing Congress — after repeatedly blaming the legislature for the border crisis — and taking unilateral action to make it harder for migrants to pass the initial asylum screening interview.
Biden’s order, Officials familiar with the deliberations tell NBC Newswould also allow for faster deportations of recently arrived migrants who do not meet these stricter criteria.
The new policy would direct asylum officials to raise standards for “credible fear interviews,” which assess whether migrants should reasonably fear for their lives or safety in the countries they have fled.
In addition, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be told to implement a “last in, first out” policy, prioritizing recently arrived migrants for deportation, officials revealed.
When Biden took office in January 2021, he immediately ended some of Trump’s policies at the southern border, which had been put in place to quell rising migration. This has led to a massive increase in the number of border crossings per day and has exacerbated the illegal immigration and drug smuggling crisis.
The implementation of the reversal of this policy ultimately led to the impeachment of Mayorkas, which was a way for Republicans in the House of Representatives to punish the administration for its handling of the southern border and migration.
In December, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered 301,983 migrants at the US-Mexico border – a new single-month high in crossings.
Migrants cross the border to be received and processed by Customs and Border Protection and have their asylum application assessed
Former President Donald Trump says if he wins another term in 2024, he will carry out ‘the largest domestic deportation operation in American history’ by involving the military
Trump wants to model a new immigration model based on a 1950s program under President Dwight D. Eisenhower known as “Operation Wetback,” a derogatory slur used to refer to a Mexican living in the U.S. without official permission.
This program used military tactics to round up and remove migrants working in the US
Trump promises that if he becomes president again, he will immediately launch a similar program that would lead to “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
“Americans can expect that immediately upon returning to the Oval Office, President Trump will restore all of his past policies, implement entirely new repression that will send shockwaves to every criminal smuggler in the world, and muster every federal and state force necessary to the largest deportation operation in American history,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
Some argue that military roundups and deportations would hamper detention spaces, but Trump and his team have said they would sidestep this problem by building mass deportation camps.