John Cornyn (R-TX) during remarks on the Senate floor earlier this month.
"Deterrence is a key component of a safe and secure border," said U.S. Republicans argue this is a big reason why record numbers of migrants have been arrested at the southern border over the last two years. Immigration hardliners say that's creating a loophole that allows migrants to ask for asylum, even if their claims are flimsy, because they know they'll be allowed to stay in the U.S. Immigration courts are overloaded, with backlogs stretching for years. The administration has proposed a rule that would make it harder to get asylum for migrants who cross the border illegally without first seeking protection in Mexico, or another country they've passed through on the way.Ĭritics have complained for years that migrants are exploiting the asylum system. "Do not - do not - just show up at the border," he said as he laid out the new approach. In January, President Biden announced tougher new restrictions at the border. Sweeping new asylum restrictions are causing tension Melissa Golden for NPR Anabel shows a picture her family sent from their flight to the United States as she waits for them to arrive. "And just the games that we're playing with people's lives like hers." "It shouldn't be this hard," Bookey said.
And it comes just as the Biden administration is considering new rules that would make it harder for migrants arriving at the border to get asylum - including, those advocates argue, women like Anabel. For one thing, they say, it should have happened years ago. You know, for somebody whose life is at risk," said Blaine Bookey, one of Anabel's lawyers with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.īut the reunion is bittersweet for Bookey and other immigrant advocates. "This is what the asylum system was intended for. For this story, she's given us permission to use her first name - but only her first name, because she's still worried about her abusive ex-husband finding her all these years later. A.B, which is how she's identified in court papers. Until now, NPR has referred to Anabel only by her initials, Ms. Their reunion this month is a joyful ending to a closely-watched immigration case - one that is deeply intertwined with the debate over asylum for those crossing at the U.S.-Mexico border. "Because I don't know them," Anabel says in Spanish. ATLANTA - When Anabel fled El Salvador, she had to leave quickly, without saying goodbye to her children.Įight years later, she is waiting nervously in the international terminal at the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where she's about to reunite with those children - and to meet her two grandchildren in person for the first time.Īlready, she's crying tears of happiness.
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