At border, I met mothers who asked US for help. Biden is sending them back to danger.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% :When the COVID-19 public health emergency ended last week, Biden had the opportunity to fulfill his promise, abide by international and U.S. law, and allow all those seeking asylum a fair chance to apply for it.
46% : Last week, I traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to witness the end of Title 42, the public health law that then-President Donald Trump used as a pretense to fulfill his goal of keeping people seeking asylum from pursuing their legal right to apply for protection in the United States.
45% : As one mother at the border told me, "We decided that we would rather risk our lives and go north than stay in our country and be killed."Instead of creating systems that bar people fleeing for their lives from presenting their case at the U.S.-Mexico border, we should welcome people seeking asylum with a just and orderly process.
45% : The right to apply for asylum should not be reserved for the selected few.
44% : But since then, it seems the administration has capitulated to anti-immigrant forces by announcing the implementation of policies that copy from the Trump playbook and that have the same effect as Title 42, policies that bar most people seeking asylum at the southern border from availing themselves of the process.
41% : When he ran for president, Joe Biden vowed to restore the right to seek asylum.
40% : But how is a Honduran citizen, like my husband, supposed to safely apply for asylum in Guatemala or Mexico, countries with barely functioning asylum systems and that are themselves seeing their own citizens travel north in search of protection?
39% : You know that calling the police is useless, as some elements of law enforcement collaborate with the gangs and the institution has shown that it cannot offer the necessary protection.
38% : Biden's asylum ban bars most people from seeking asylum if they traveled through other countries along their way to the U.S.-Mexico border, unless they applied for and waited for a final determination in another country.

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