Biden Administration Announces Continuation of Trump Border Policy Turning Back Asylum Seekers

Jose Luis Gonzalez of Reuters reports for Buzzfeed News that the Biden administration stated today that asylum seekers at the border will still be turned away under a Trump-era policy relying on the public health code during the pandemic. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that “the vast majority” of immigrants at the border would be turned back under the policy: “There have been incredibly narrow and limited circumstances where individuals have come into the country awaiting for their hearing, but the vast majority have been turned away.” Lee Gelernt of the ACLU is quoted calling the policy  “illegal . . .  notorious and pretextual.” Read the full story here.

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