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Yesterday, in a CNN town hall President Biden was asked about his administration’s immigration policy with regards to refugees and people seeking asylum and said: “they should not come.” The President of the United States knows seeking asylum is a legal right under U.S. law, and a fundamental human right enshrined in international treaties and conventions–telling people seeking protection otherwise is inexcusable. Members of the #WelcomeWithDignity campaign responded:
“I was in Nogales, Sonora yesterday and met a 24-year-old single mother with her two young children,” shared
Laurie Benson, Founder of Madres e Hijos. “This mother fled Guerrero when her brother was murdered and the gang told her that she and her children were next. The Biden Administration’s insistence that asylum seekers not come and the idea that they should seek asylum in their home countries undermines the very purpose and human right of asylum. People fleeing for their lives do
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Biden halted a key policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration courts, but it leaves out thousands whose claims were dismissed.
SAN DIEGO (AP) In March of 2020, Estela Lazo appeared before Immigration Judge Lee O’Connor with her two children, her muscles tensed and a lump in her throat. Would they receive asylum?