Trouble at the Border: Biden Botches Influx of Haitian Refugees

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : As currently employed by the government, this public health law has displaced existing immigration law, which allows people to request asylum.
49% : Both international and U.S. law recognize the basic human right to seek asylum.
48% : It is entirely legal to approach U.S. borders and request asylum.
46% : The resignation came amid debate over the U.S. decision to deport thousands of Haitians entering the U.S. in search of asylum or a better life.
45% : As a practical matter, this means that people must be able to request asylum at the U.S. border, or within U.S. territory, so that they have the opportunity to prove whether or not they fit within the category of persons legally protected from forced return.
42% : Shortly after the U.S. enacted the 1980 Refugee Act, it began to stop Haitians on the high seas and to return them to Haiti so that they could not apply for asylum in this country.
41% : Haitian migrants have been trapped in Mexico for several years under various Trump-era policies that limited, and then eliminated, the possibility for them to request asylum in the United States.
41% : Before the border was closed to them, Haitians who reached the U.S. and applied for asylum were denied at a higher rate than just about any other nationality - notwithstanding the dire human rights conditions in their country.
37% : Statements by the administration that people should not come, that they are doing something illegal when they seek protection, and that there is a right way and wrong way to seek asylum are, in my opinion, not only callous and cruel but also false statements of the law.
35% : On Sept. 16, a federal court found the use of Title 42 to expel people seeking asylum to be a clear violation of U.S. law and granted a preliminary injunction against the practice.
25% : Even before COVID-19 struck, Trump administration aide Stephen Miller had inquired about using the government's public health authority to shut U.S. borders to people seeking asylum.

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