{"id":324939,"date":"2021-08-15T18:36:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/immigration-advocates-blast-bidens-migrant-policy\/"},"modified":"2021-08-15T18:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:36:43","slug":"immigration-advocates-blast-bidens-migrant-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/immigration-advocates-blast-bidens-migrant-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Immigration advocates blast Biden&#8217;s migrant policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Immigration advocates blast Biden&#8217;s migrant policy<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Scores of immigration advocacy groups slammed the Biden administration\u2019s \u201ccruel, unlawful and ineffective\u201d policy that involves sending migrants arrested at the US-Mexican border to southern Mexico, saying it leaves many families with children fending for themselves in remote jungle outposts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 organizations sent <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/\u200bhttps:\/\/welcomewithdignity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Joint-Letter-to-President-Biden-on-Expulsion-Flights-to-Southern-Mexico-and-Forthcoming-Changes-to-Asylum-Processing_8132021.pdf\u200b\">a letter <\/a>to President Biden and top White House officials  last week to voice their \u201cprofound dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment\u201d in ramping up prosecutions of families arriving at the border and expelling them to Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFar from fulfilling its commitment to build a \u2018safe, orderly, and humane immigration system,\u2019 your administration continues to pursue cruel, unlawful, and ineffective deterrence-based policies that extend rather than dismantle the previous administration\u2019s approach to migration,\u201d the groups wrote in the missive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are gravely concerned by reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to send 24 expulsion flights per month of Central American families and adults seeking protection at the U.S.-Mexico border to southern Mexico. In the last week, hundreds of migrants expelled on the first such flights have reportedly been denied access to protection and forced by Mexican authorities into remote areas of Guatemala,\u201d the letter continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The organizations \u2014 including Amnesty International USA, Refugees International and the National Immigration Project \u2014 called on the administration to end the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Title 42 policy that blocks asylum seekers during the COVID-19 pandemic and to stop the expulsion flights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/central-american-immigrants-009.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Central American migrants wait to be transported by the U.S. Border Patrol.\" class=\"wp-image-19137649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/central-american-immigrants-009.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/central-american-immigrants-009.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/central-american-immigrants-009.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Immigration advocacy groups say President Joe Biden\u2019s policy leaves many families with children fending for themselves in remote jungle outposts.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThese expulsions make a mockery of public health and human rights as they intentionally and systematically return people to harm in violation of U.S. law and international obligations of non-refoulement,\u201d the groups said in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the new policy last week, saying it would make it harder for migrants expelled under Title 42 to return to the US border, as the number of border crossings hit 212,672 in July \u2014 the highest in 21 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Customs and Border Patrol have said there have been more than 1.1 million border crossing attempts so far this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Biden-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Joe Biden.\" class=\"wp-image-19137652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Biden-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Biden-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Biden-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>More than 100 organizations sent a letter to President Biden and top White House officials last week to voice their \u201cprofound disappointment\u201d in the border policy.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mayorkas was caught on a recording telling border agents in Texas that the situation at the border \u201ccannot continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA couple of days ago I was down in Mexico, and I said, \u2018Look, you know, if, if our borders are the first line of defense, we\u2019re going to lose and this is unsustainable,\u2019\u201d Mayorkas told them. \u201cWe can\u2019t continue like this, our people in the field can\u2019t continue and our system isn\u2019t built for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of the Central Americans \u200bflown into southern Mexico find themselves with few resources and little money after they are dumped at remote outposts near the Guatemalan border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Mayorkas-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.\" class=\"wp-image-19137653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Mayorkas-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Mayorkas-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Mayorkas-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cOur people in the field can\u2019t continue and our system isn\u2019t built for it,\u201d Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said about the new migrant policy.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Andres Toribio, who runs a shelter in El Ceibo, Guatemala, told the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/latin-america-world-news-caribbean-central-america-d0e7b4457cb43ecbf4de53ce6aba6475\">Associated Press <\/a>that many of the people who show up have no idea where they are and many aren\u2019t even from Guatemala, but are Honduran and Salvadorans.<\/p>\n<p>He said the migrant shelter has been overrun by the sudden influx of people being expelled by the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have capacity for 30 people. Yesterday we received 100,\u201d he \u200btold the\u00a0wire service. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about those that Mexico\u2019s immigration expels and the ones they\u2019re sending on the (US) flights every day, some 500 migrants left here at the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/border.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"An asylum-seeking migrant woman hangs to dry a bedsheet in the public square.\" class=\"wp-image-19137656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/border.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/border.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/border.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Migrant shelters have been overrun by the sudden influx of people being expelled by the US.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Toribio said the people \u2014 mainly women and children \u2014 become victims of \u201call kinds of abuse in the street\u201d by human traffickers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200bBiden has been criticized for rolling back many of former President Trump\u2019s immigration policies, including stopping the building of the border wall, and opening the floodgates at the border.<\/p>\n<p>But the president continued the Title 42 that first began under the previous administration.\u00a0\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman Vedant Patel told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-immigration-advocates-blast-cruel-biden-policies-asylum-2021-08-13\/\">Reuters<\/a> that the Biden administration is following recommendations from health experts and the CDC.\u00a0\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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