Biden Toughens Border, Offers Legal Path for 30,000 a Month - Latino Rebels

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Biden made the announcement just days before a planned visit to El Paso, Texas on Sunday for his first trip to the southern border as president.
54% : But the requirements for granting asylum are narrow, and only about 30 percent of applications are granted.
52% : Anyone coming to the U.S. is allowed to claim asylum, regardless of how they crossed the border, and migrants seeking a better life in the U.S. often pay smugglers the equivalent of thousands of dollars to deliver them across the dangerous Darién Gap that spans the border between Colombia and Panama.
50% : The new rules expand on an existing effort to stop Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S., which began in October and led to a dramatic drop in Venezuelans coming to the southern border.
44% : Homeland Security officials said they would begin denying asylum to those who circumvent legal pathways and do not first ask for asylum in the country they traveled through en route to the U.S.Instead, the U.S. will accept 30,000 people per month from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti for two years and offer the ability to work legally as long as they come legally, have eligible sponsors, and pass vetting and background checks.
41% : "President Biden correctly recognized today that seeking asylum is a legal right and spoke sympathetically about people fleeing persecution," said Jonathan Blazer, the American Civil Liberties Union's director of border strategies.
36% : That's resulted in relentless criticism from Republicans who say the Democratic president is ineffective on border security, and the newly minted Republican House majority has promised congressional investigations on the matter.
33% : That system was ended under Biden, and the migrants who are returned to Mexico under the new rules will not be eligible for asylum.
33% : At the U.S.-Mexico border, migrants have been denied a chance to seek asylum 2.5 million times since March 2020 under the Title 42 restrictions, introduced as an emergency health measure by Trump to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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