The Biden administration is allowing tens of thousands of migrants to enter the United States legally each month, while those who don’t follow the rules face ramped-up deportations.
EL PASO — On the border bridge from Mexico, about 200 asylum seekers lined up on a recent morning with their phones open to a Customs and Border Protection mobile app, ready for appointments at a reception hall on the U.S. side.
The president’s critics continue to depict his border policies as too permissive — geared more toward accommodating mass migration than deterrence. But the decline in illegal crossings undermines a key line of attack for President Biden’s Republican critics and bolsters Democrats’ argument that the pandemic expulsion policy was partly to blame for record numbers of border arrests.
Imelda Maynard, the legal director of Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services in El Paso, which aids migrants, described the past several weeks in the city as “eerily quiet.” The number of migrants released by CBP onto the streets of El Paso dropped to zero in recent days, according to the city. Legislative proposals to overhaul the U.S. asylum process continue to face steep odds in a polarized U.S. Congress, which hasn’t passed significant immigration legislation in nearly two decades.Blas Nuñez-Neto, the top border policy official at the Department of Homeland Security, said the administration’s measures remain vulnerable to adverse court rulings because they rely on executive actions rather than congressional fixes, which remain stalled.
Leidimar Muñoz; her husband, Alexander Gonzalez; and their 7-year-old daughter, Yefreannys, waited there, too, but they gave up after five hours in the 100-degree heat. Downtown El Paso seemed within grasp, its skyline visible past the border wall and the spools of concertina wire.Before May 11, the family could have joined the tens of thousands of other Venezuelans crossing illegally and surrendering to border agents with an expectation they’d be quickly released into the United States. Now doing so would risk deportation back to Mexico and ineligibility for asylum. Muñoz had to wait, glued to the mobile app.
Crystal Sandoval, director of strategic initiatives for Las Americas, an advocacy group working on both sides of the border, said Biden’s restrictions have effectively “ended” access to asylum. Though the administration is allowing tens of thousands to enter with CBP One appointments to live in the United States while their protection claims are pending in U.S. courts, asylum seekers who might be fleeing immediate danger face new hurdles if they cross the border illegally.
Crossings have historically dipped during the peak summer months when temperatures along the border soar past 100 degrees. But as migrants trying to evade capture face tougher odds to sneak through, they often resort to more remote areas with greater risk. They may be U.S. deportees, or have criminal records, making them ineligible for CBP One.
Rep. Tony Gonzales , a border-district lawmaker who criticized the new facility’s price tag after a recent tour, said 100,000 illegal crossings a month still add up to more than a million annually, near historic highs. Asylum seekers who are released into the United States while their claims are pending rarely end up deported, even though the majority of their cases are rejected in U.S. immigration court, he said.
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