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How about a clear announcement about when the United States is going to abide by its obligation under U.S. and international law to allow people to seek asylum at the border and stop expelling them without a protection screening?
Also, a clear announcement about when the review of MPP is going to end? A date?
Also, a clear announcement about what is going to happen in that new facility at Donna?
What is the point of the secrecy and lack of clarity? This idea that explaining the plans will be be a pull factor? Why wouldn't not explaining them be a pull factor?
Clarity would help legal service providers and shelters and civil society groups on both sides of the border.
Is the goal to stop people from entering without authorization? Because, if that is the goal, the numbers are up so maybe the messaging should change?
Is the message "we're closed" to asylum seekers? Because that was certainly the message of the last administration.
More important: is the policy the US is closed/full and can't allow newly arriving asylum seekers to ask for protection at the border? If it is, when might the policy change? And we need a justification for that policy that is more than, it's just too hard, we can't.
My understanding is that you just can't not abide by a law because it is hard. You have to find a way to abide by it or you have to argue--and provide legal arguments--for why the law does not apply. Is that coming soon?
I have not seen the Biden administration's defense of Title 42 regarding asylum seekers. Those reading this thread: did I miss it in a legal filing? Regarding children, is it as a matter of law or grace that the administration is not expelling them as the court allowed?
What I want to know: does this admin. believe it has a LEGAL obligation or only a humanitarian one to allow those at the threshold (a port of entry, not inside the US) to get access to US territory and be processed and screened. Regardless of COVID-19. Just in general. Period.
