Washington, United States.
The United States repeated this Wednesday at the undocumented immigrants who want to enter their territory, that is “This is not the time to comeand warned that most of those who cross the border will be Rejected.
“This is not the time to come and the vast majority of it people will be rejected “, the White House spokeswoman stated, Jen Psaki, during his daily press conference.
The officer assured that this situation is due to coronavirus pandemic and to the fact that the government of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, who came to power on January 20 has not had the time to get a “comprehensive process and humane to people handle that they reach the limit. “
“The processes of asylum at the border will not take place from now and it will take time to implement them, ”he added.
Expulsion of migrants
The spokeswoman for the White House admitted that the one “sensitive topic” for the president himself, but admitted they need “weather” and partners to “implement a comprehensive process and system that supports border processing asylum seekers “.
On January 20, the administration of Biden announced the suspension, from the next day of the inscriptions in the program Stay in Mexicoor “, making the government of his predecessor, Donald Trump, return to the neighboring country asylum seekers.
The Biden administration further announced that “current participants” of the Migrant protections (MPP, in English) “, as this initiative was called Trump icompleted in January 2019, “mustn stay where they are, pending more official information from officials of the The United States Government ”.
Under the program “Stay in Mexico”, the Trum Governmentp sent more than 60,000 undocumented migrants Which they crossed the border a wait in mexico your appointments for immigration judges, a procedure that can take months.
Trump implemented that policy after the spike in arrests in the border with Mexico, which reached the historic level of 132,856 cases in May 2019.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also clarified that day that the “current non-essential travel restrictions of the covid-19, tthey are currently still in force both at the border and in the region. “
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In response to the announcement, Efrén Olivares, deputy director of the Immigrant Justice project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, criticized that the Biden’s government proceed with the process of evictionthe thing is his predecessor undertook under Title 42.
That provision, issued in March 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the government’s response to the pandemic of covid-19, notes that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can forcefully return through the frontera migrants who entered the United States illegally without giving them the opportunity to do so apply for asylum or protection.
“Calling title 42 was an actionn intolerant and xenophobic barely concealed that it has achieved its goal of closing off access to asylum to thousands of people, hidden under the pretense of protecting public health, “said Olivares. EFE