{"id":3767,"date":"2023-01-09T05:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2023-03-21T02:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T07:27:44","slug":"bidens-carrot-and-stick-approach-to-deter-migrants-met-with-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3767","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s \u2018carrot and stick\u2019 approach to deter migrants met with anger<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under pressure to address a surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border,\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0announced a far-reaching crackdown on migrants seeking asylum last week, expanding the use of a controversial public health measure known as Title 42 to restrict people from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela from illegally entering the US, while offering those legally seeking relief a new pathway to America.
\nBefore the president\u2019s first trip to the\u00a0US-Mexico border\u00a0since he took office in 2020, immigration advocates condemned the Biden administration\u2019s decision to expand Title 42 as disheartening and a failure to uphold his campaign promises. They took some solace in the creation of a legal pathway to asylum for those in four countries, but still, for them, Biden\u2019s actions were not enough \u2013 they leave out other migrants, and the parole program is beset by requirements that impose significant barriers to migrants without access to resources, perpetuating inequities within the US immigration system.
\nIn other words, immigration advocates say, the cost of expanded expulsion of migrants under the guise of public health without a clear path to asylum outweighs the promise of expanded refugee access and a legal outlet for asylum. \u201cFor a lot of us working in immigration justice, at the start of the administration, there was incredible hope that Title 42 would end and push forward to re-establish access to asylum,\u201d the director of the American Immigration Council\u2019s Immigration Justice Campaign,\u00a0Alex Miller, said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been disappointed.\u201d
\nThe Biden administration\u2019s so-called \u201ccarrot and stick\u201d approach aims to deter the historic-high millions of migrants fleeing persecution from their home countries and seeking US asylum from entering the country illegally. Federal figures from the 2022 fiscal year\u00a0show\u00a0that US border agents stopped migrants more than 2m times along the southern border, setting an all-time record. They turned migrants away under the Title 42 provision more than 1m times.
\n\u201cThe problem is the carrot is not universally accessible,\u201d Miller added. \u201cLegal access to asylum will be limited to those who are the right nationalities, have the right means and support, to apply for parole \u2026 The sticks they are offering are restricting access, and that\u2019s not a fair trade.\u201d
\nUnder the Biden administration\u2019s new policy, if migrants from those countries pass background checks, buy a plane ticket, obtain financial sponsorship, and meet other requirements, they would be allowed to legally enter under the \u201cparole program\u201d. They would be authorized to live and work in the US for two years.<\/p>\n

Theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under pressure to address a surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border,\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0announced a far-reaching crackdown on migrants seeking asylum last week, expanding the use of a controversial public health measure known as Title 42 to restrict people from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela from illegally entering the US, while offering those legally seeking relief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4015,1169,4013,2958,4014,1228],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-asylum-pathways","tag-biden","tag-blocking-immigration","tag-border-policy","tag-campaign-promises","tag-migrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8179,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions\/8179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}