With his sights set on re-election in 2024, Biden has toughened his focus on national security with new immigration measures with an emphasis on his asylum policy, while the movement of people across the border with Mexico has reached record levels.
The administration of US President Joe Biden is developing a sweeping bill that would modernize the country’s asylum system to speed up the processing of claims at large-scale processing centers on the border with Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security said. United States national. (DHS) officials told Reuters.
The effort grew out of the Biden administration’s ongoing discussions to reimagine asylum as border crossings have reached record levels and immigration courts face long backlogs, said the two sources, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
US officials traveled to Europe last month, including a stop in the Netherlands, to examine systems there, they said.
Biden, a Democrat, is expected to seek re-election in 2024 and has toughened his approach to border security, introducing new immigration measures in recent weeks as Republicans stepped up attacks on the issue after taking control of the United States House of Representatives.
New legislation for asylum
The legislation, which remains in a conceptual phase, could also include different procedures for asylum seekers based on nationality, and immigrants from countries with typically higher approval rates will have more freedom of movement while awaiting the outcome of their cases. the sources said.
Those with better opportunities would potentially be housed in apartments or settings less restrictive than a detention center, the two officials said. Immigrants deemed less likely to be granted asylum could be quickly prosecuted and deported.
In fiscal year 2022, for example, 53% of Chinese asylum seekers won their cases in immigration court, while only 8% of Hondurans did, according to government data.
“It’s a total rethink of the approach and it’s not limited by current laws,” said one of the DHS officials.
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