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The draconian restrictions on asylum-seekers owe a lot to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, but the path was paved by Democrats.
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This is not to underplay the extremity of Biden’s new plan. Under Biden’s executive order, the administration will halt asylum requests at the border once the average number of daily encounters has reached 2,500 between legal ports of entry, which has been consistently the case since Biden took office in 2021. Requests will be reopened two weeks after the daily average falls under 1,500 for seven consecutive days. The restrictions went into effect last night.
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“All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated. The international community must treat human rights globally in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing, and with the same emphasis.”
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, as adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993
This is apparently a highly controversial topic.
Let’s break it down using a human-rights based approach.
Somebody else ought to start, though.
edit: remember the do’s and dont’s of communicating during a conflict of ideas