Biden to sign executive order limiting asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border
Biden to sign executive order limiting asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Tuesday that will allow him to partly suspend asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border when daily unauthorized crossings reach a threshold of 2,500 migrants.
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Tuesday that will allow him to partly suspend asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border when daily unauthorized crossings reach a threshold of 2,500 migrants.
"I don't know why people on the center left won't vote for me!"
-continues pursuing extreme right-wing border policy that's identical to that of the GOP-
Its the center-right that Biden is aiming for and has been the whole time. He's always been that way, his cabinet better represents the constituency than he does. Its a big part of why he was the VP for Obama, to appease old white guys.
The people on the right for whom Trump is too extreme or distasteful are the voters they are hoping to pick up , the people they lose by going too right are not going to vote for the republican anyways. Question is if its a good calculation or not.
He's likely lost huge margins in swing states due to his right wing politics though, he's not going to make that up on an imaginary demographic of people who can go either way on someone like Trump. If anyone says they're still seriously considering Trump they're not going to vote Dem, they just don't want to admit it in polite company.
I just think it's a serious miscalculation on the part of the Biden campaign to chase those voters and give the finger to his base. Every time the Democrats fail to bring out their base, they lose elections. Relying on "the implication" just doesn't work any more I don't think. People are struggling, their rights are being stripped away on Biden's watch and Democrats are making themselves less and less distinguishable from Republicans on economics, on the border, and on genocide apparently. That's a serious problem, the utter demoralization of the left is toxic to the party.
Here's the changes:
The order makes three changes to asylum law under Title 8 of the Immigration and Nationality Act when that threshold of 2,500 migrants is reached, a senior administration official said. The first is that a noncitizen who crosses the border without authorization will be ineligible for asylum.
The second is any noncitizen who crosses the border while the order is in effect and is processed for removal will only be referred to a credible fear interview with an asylum officer “if they manifest or express a fear of return to their country or country of removal, a fear of persecution or torture, or an intention to apply for asylum,” a senior administration official said.
And the third is raising the standard for credible fear interviews to a “reasonable probability of persecution or torture standard,” which is “a new, substantially higher standard than is currently being applied at the border,” a senior administration official said.
My thoughts: Largely performative and only slightly moves the needle right all things considered. You'd think with all the shrieking that this was back to family separations and putting people in cages or something.