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3 days ago · CNN — President Joe Biden is pulling from former President Donald Trump’s immigration playbook as he tries to stop a flow of asylum-seekers from around the world who are crossing into the US at...
3 days ago · Biden’s executive action rests on shaky legal grounds — it is based on Section 212 (f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows the president to suspend entry into the country of...
5 days ago · During his first term, Mr. Trump narrowed the path to asylum, sharply reduced the numbers of visas and refugee admissions and enacted a travel ban on people from several countries, most of which...
4 days ago · Looking for a way to shut down the southern border in 2018, President Donald J. Trump found a 73-word provision in the asylum law that he said gave him “magical authorities” to keep migrants...
3 days ago · What Trump did: In March 2020, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Trump administration invoked Title 42, a controversial statute ostensibly meant as a public health measure. The...
2 days ago · In an election-year twist, Biden's move echoes former President Trump's immigration tactics, despite significant differences in rhetoric and approach. Biden emphasized that his administration's policies are designed to be more humane, allowing asylum-seekers to make appointments at ports of entry and including various lawful pathways for entry.
3 days ago · The answer is politics — and it’s the reason why Biden’s executive order presents an unwise risk. By taking a page out of Trump’s immigration playbook, the president, who already faces an enthusiasm gap among voters, could potentially alienate many Latinos, progressives and immigrant advocates.
