Global Courant 2023-05-10 19:09:34
The Government of the United States promulgated this Wednesday a new norm that restricts access to asylum on the border with Mexico and replaces Title 42, a rule of the Trump administration that allowed the hot returns of migrants under cover of a possible spread of the coronavirus.
The norm, which will be published today in the federal register, qualifies migrants who cross the border irregularly and who have not requested protection in a third country during their journey to the United States as “unfit” to request asylum, they explained. Government officials on a call with reporters.
This new restriction is part of the measures that will govern the border between Mexico and the US from this Thursday, when Title 42 will be lifted, for which up to 2.5 million migrants have been expelled in the last three years.
From now on, the main legal route to request asylum in the US will be through the CBP One mobile application, which allows migrants to make appointments with the authorities to present their cases.
The US will offer some 1,000 daily appointments to request asylum through this procedure, a figure that, according to public officials, may increase “depending on the capacity” of the migration service workers.
Those who do not take advantage of this process and decide to cross the border irregularly will be declared ineligible to request asylum in the US, unless they have previously been denied in a third country or they can demonstrate that they have encountered technological or security barriers. language to access the application.
People who are found to be ineligible to apply for asylum may be deported, barred from entering the US for five years and may face criminal charges if they try to re-enter the US, officials said.
In fact, they also detailed that the US increased the number of deportation flights to countries in the region and also reached an agreement with Mexico so that the neighboring country receives up to 30,000 migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba deported to the month.
For their part, people who are arrested crossing the border and who are given the opportunity to present their asylum case, through a “credible fear” interview, must do so while in detention.
“We have hired and will have ready to deploy about 1,000 asylum officers to conduct credible fear interviews at the border starting Thursday,” explained another of the public officials.
As part of the reinforcement of personnel, the US government will also deploy some 24,000 “law enforcement officers” on the border, in addition to some 400 “volunteers”.
Several non-governmental organizations, such as Human Rights Watch, strongly criticized the norm promulgated today when it was in the public comment phase, defining it as a “violation of human rights and international law”.
