A DISTANT MEMORY FROM THE PAST
Those US progressives liberals who called for a vote for Biden as the lesser evil to Trump have a lot explaining to do when it comes to immigration policy.
Biden is over-seeing a new US practice of transferring asylum seekers and migrants expelled under public health order Title 42 by plane to southern Mexico without any opportunity to plead their asylum case.
The Department of Homeland Security admitted families were sent back to their home countries, including Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras
“Removal from the US to southern Mexico, outside any official transfer agreement with appropriate legal safeguards, increases the risk of chain refoulement – pushbacks by successive countries – of vulnerable people in danger, in contravention of international law and the humanitarian principles of the 1951 Refugee Convention,” Matthew Reynolds, the UNHCR representative to the United States and the Caribbean, said in a statement.
Reynolds also said the expulsion flights would further strain the humanitarian response capacity in southern Mexico and heighten the risk of Covid-19 transmission across national borders.
“UNHCR reiterates the May 2021 appeal by UN high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi for the United States government to swiftly lift the Title 42 public health-related asylum restrictions that remain in effect and to restore access to asylum for people whose lives depend on it,” said Reynolds.
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