New deal would allow President Biden to suspend the US asylum law and deport migrants
The United States Senate will take under consideration a new proposal to suspend the asylum law and deport undocumented immigrants. Here the details.
The immigration crisis has become the main topic of conversation for the United States and has particularly affected the Biden Administration. Given this, the United States Senate launched a $118 billion bipartisan bill to expand economic assistance to Ukraine and Israel in exchange for a border agreement. The project is in proposal status, however, the 370-page draft is expected to be voted on starting this week.
The agreement includes $20 billion for strengthening border security, as well as restrictions to suspend asylum laws and deport, almost immediately, thousands of immigrants who cross the border every day into US territory along the southern border.
The rest of the budget will be divided between aid to Ukraine in the war against Russia, security to Israel, humanitarian aid to Gaza, the West Bank and Ukraine, and support to US allies in the Indo-Pacific, as revealed by a source familiar with the matter to Reuters.
New deal would allow President Biden to suspend the US asylum law and deport migrants
If Congress approves the bill and President Biden signs the proposal into law, the federal government could invoke emergency powers and “shut down” the border through various measures.
The emergency power would be activated in specific situations, when the daily crossing exceeds the average of 4,000 migrants over a seven-day period, and would be in effect for three years , with use limits: it could not be used more than 270 days during the first year. The measure would be deactivated when the daily average number of border crossings drops by 75%.
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Through the invocation of emergency power, the federal government would suspend asylum laws and immigrants who are detained at the border would be “summarily deported from the United States.” Immigrants who repeatedly cross while the emergency power is active will be banned from the United States for one year.
Currently, asylum law allows immigrants to remain in US territory, even if they crossed illegally. In 2023, the Border Patrol detained two million immigrants on the southern border. Only 300,000 arrests occurred in the month of December.
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