(Photo Credit: Raimond Spekking, Newsletter of the European Union)
This Take 5 is adapted from a Facebook post by the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
Recently, the Biden Administration has released an executive order which places limits on who can request asylum into the US. At the time of this analysis, it is hard to say with confidence whether this regulation will work as the administration intends. What is clear is the fact that while it is in effect, people will be ordered removed who might otherwise have been able to successfully win asylum, and that some people may potentially be removed to face persecution in violation of international law.
Civil rights groups are suing the Biden Administration over these anti-asylum rules. The lawsuit argues that Biden’s asylum shutdown and the related policy changes violate our asylum laws and result in the unlawful return of people to countries where their lives are in danger.
YOU CAN HELP by submitting a public comment expressing your opposition to the rule until the government’s deadline of July 8, 2024.
To access an editable letter template click here. It is likely to have greater impact if you edit it to state your concerns in your own words.
Then email us here with “I spoke out above Biden’s Executive Order” in the subject line. (Please do this so that we can count your action.)
