President Joe Biden may have claimed his new executive order on border security would “bar migrants who cross our southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum,” but in reality, the memo implementing the new regulation maintains all the existing loopholes and even prompts migrants to ask for protection from deportation.
The June 4 memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Patrick Lechleitner to ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations director does suspend the entry of noncitizens apprehended for illegally crossing the southern border, but then, it includes a long list of exceptions to the new ban on entry, including:
Recommended Stories
Print subscriber? Click here to login/register your account
Digital subscriber? Click here to login/register your account.