2024-02-24 02:55:00
President Joe Biden informed the country’s governors this Friday that he is exploring executive actions he can take to address migration at the southern border, following the collapse of a bipartisan agreement in Congress in recent weeks. Frustrated by the limitations of his authority to act unilaterally, he urged members of the National Governors Association to ask his representatives in Congress to resurrect the bipartisan proposal that collapsed in less than 48 hours.
As part of a negotiation, the president said that if Congress does not support the agreement in its entirety, although it does support parts, such as increasing funding for border patrol agents and asylum officers, those items might be added to upcoming bills. of expenses. He also mentioned the possibility of declaring an emergency at the border.
In any case, Biden warned that he is exploring his options to act through an executive order, the US DNU.
“Over time, our laws and our resources have not kept pace with our immigration system and it is broken,” he told the governors, lamenting that “petty politics intervened” to thwart the agreement. .
Additionally, he said he has been working with his advisers to find what kind of executive action would hold up in the courts and be constitutional. In any action taken, Biden says that he wants to avoid a fate similar to that of all the immigration measures taken by Donald Trump, and which were blocked in different federal courts.
Biden proposes barring immigrants who cross illegally from receiving asylum. Trump tried to implement the same ban in 2019, but federal Justice ruled that it violated the Immigration and Nationality law, which provides that those fleeing persecution can request asylum regardless of how they arrive on US soil.
Among the actions Biden is considering is invoking an article of immigration law that gives the president broad latitude to block certain immigrants from entering the United States if it would be “detrimental” to the national interest.
“Invent emergencies.” The Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) is one of two nonprofit organizations suing the Trump administration over its use of the emergency executive order to build a border wall, and the legality of the The matter was not resolved before Biden took office.
SBCC Director Lilian Serrano told PERFIL that “President Biden is once once more letting down border communities by considering the same proposals that other administrations have already tried and proven to be a complete failure and waste of resources.”
Serrano mentioned how Biden only seeks to advance his “political game” by proposing these immigration reforms, to gain more public support and fix his image on the most influential issue of the November presidential elections. “Inventing emergencies” is a game already played by Trump. “And not only does it not work, but it is illegal,” he stressed.
The Coalition will continue to look for ways to guarantee the dignity of migrants in the border area, because we know that there are real solutions for an immigration system focused on the protection of life,” Serrano said.
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