Washington, United States.
The United States reiterated this Wednesday undocumented immigrants who seek to enter their territory than this “This is not the time to come“And he warned that most of those who cross the border will be rejected.
“Now is not the time to come and the vast majority of people will be rejected “, said the White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, during his daily press conference.
The official said that this situation is due to the pandemic of the coronavirus i to the fact that the Administration of the US President, Joe Biden, who took power on January 20, has not had time to launch one “Comprehensive process and human to process people who they reach the border. “
“The processes of asylum at the border will not occur from immediately and it will take time to implement, “he added.
Expulsion of migrants
The spokeswoman for the White house admitted that he is a “Sensitive topic” for the president himself, but admitted they need to “Time” to set up and partners to implement “a comprehensive process and a system that will allow processing at the border of asylum seekers “.
On January 20, the Administration of Biden announce the suspension, from the next day, from the registrations in the program “Stay in Mexicoor “, which allowed the Government of its predecessor, Donald Trump, return to neighboring country to asylum seekers.
The Biden Administration has further announced that “current participants” of the Biden Protocols program Migrant protections (MPP, in English) “, as this initiative was called Trump iimplemented in January 2019, “shouldn stay where they are, Pending further official information from the officials of the US Government “.
Under the program “Stay in Mexico,” the Government of Trump send more than 60,000 undocumented what they crossed the border a wait in Mexico their appointments before immigration judges, a procedure that can take months.
Trump implement this policy after the rise in arrests in the border with Mexico, Which in May 2019 reached the historic level of 132,856 cases.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also clarified on that day that the “current non-essential travel restrictions of the covid-19, tboth on the border and in the region, they are still in force at this time. “
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Reacting to the announcement, Efrén Olivares, deputy director of the Immigration Justice project at Southern Poverty Law Center, criticized the Government of Biden continue with the process of expulsionis that undertake his predecessor under title 42.
This provision, issued in March 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the Government’s response to the pandemic of covid-19, notes that the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can return by force through the frontera to migrants who have entered the US irregularly, without giving them the opportunity to apply for asylum or protection.
“The invocation of Title 42 was an actionn intolerant and xenophobic just evening he has achieved his goal of cutting off access to the asylum for thousands of people, Concealed under the pretense of protecting public health “, said Olivares. EFE