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On the campaign trail, the President-Elect consistently pledged to restore U.S. commitment to asylum & refugee protection. Today’s announcement of the incoming Administration’s plans to end MPP & “safe” third country agreements is an important step in the right direction. (1/6)
Incoming Domestic Policy Advisor @AmbassadorRice also laid out an encouraging vision for regional migration management to include aid to Central America, regional processing, and fair adjudication of asylum claims at the border. (2/6) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FemlAUzCUXAffUj1PYcGF5xdFOhxi7n9/view
Trump and Stephen Miller spent 4 years systematically dismantling the asylum system, abandoning the historic U.S. commitment to protect people fleeing persecution. (3/6) https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/one-year-of-forced-return-to-mexico-three-years-of-trump-dismantling-the-asylum-system/
Their cruelty culminated in an order in March that exploited the pandemic to effectively end asylum at the border - violating the law as well as basic decency and compassion. Leading public health experts condemned the order. (4/6) https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/public-health-experts-urge-us-officials-withdraw-order-enabling-mass-expulsion-asylum-seekers
Democrats in Congress also decried the order and the litany of other anti-asylum policies enacted under Trump - as did the entire immigrant justice movement. (5/6)
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/congressional-democrats-demand-trump-administration-reverse-its-barrage-of-policies-targeting-asylum-seekers
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/congressional-democrats-demand-trump-administration-reverse-its-barrage-of-policies-targeting-asylum-seekers
The new Administration will face the difficult but essential work of rebuilding an asylum system that is welcoming, fair, humane, and orderly. We stand ready to help find solutions - and to ensure they stay true to their commitment to uphold the legal right to asylum. (6/6)
