Biden Administration Proposes Dramatic Change to Asylum System Amid Border Crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Others worry that the change, if enacted, would trigger a fresh surge of illegal immigration.
59% : "If you do that, that will set off a mass migration that's like nothing that we have ever seen in this country because the entire world will then come on through to get their asylum," he added, describing the proposed rule as "essentially legalizing illegal immigration, in a very clever way."
55% : "The bottom line is that if you transfer the awesome power of granting asylum to employees who answer to essentially the White House, then they will be ordered to grant asylum to everybody that comes in," Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, which describes itself as a nonpartisan research organization that is animated by a pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision, told The Epoch Times.
50% : The current system sees DHS immigration officers determine whether asylum claims have merit.
49% : "The Biden administration's new rule represents a fundamental retooling of the asylum system that preserves asylum as a bedrock element of the U.S. immigration system while also recognizing that a secure border and deterring unlawful crossings are legitimate and necessary attributes of an effective, credible immigration system," Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service who now directs the institute's U.S. immigration policy work, wrote in a blog post.
45% : The proposed process (pdf) would give the officers the power to unilaterally approve applications for asylum, withholding from deportation, or claims under the Convention Against Torture.
38% : Illegal immigrants are supposed to be removed from the United States unless they claim asylum, or "a fear of persecution."
38% : Most claims of asylum are rejected, including roughly 90 percent of claims from Central Americans.
36% : The Biden administration wants to let immigration officers grant full approval to illegal aliens claiming asylum, taking that decision from judges.

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