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May 10, 2023

Rights Groups Call on Biden to Implement Humane Immigration Policies as Title 42 Ends
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CBS News is reporting the Biden administration is expected to publish
today new procedures for quickly deporting migrants at the U.S.-Mexico
border, ahead of the lifting of the Trump-era Title 42 pandemic policy
on Thursday. President Biden said he expects the situation at the
southern border to become "chaotic." The new rule would require the
majority of asylum seekers to request refugee status in another country,
such as Mexico, before reaching the U.S. Deported migrants will be
barred from reentering the U.S. for five years.

Earlier this week, 233 groups, including the ACLU, Amnesty International
USA, Detention Watch Network and RAICES, sent an open letter to
President Biden demanding he follow through on his commitment to never
detain migrant families, end for-profit immigration jails, and to allow
people to live with dignity in their communities while their cases are
being resolved in court, instead of being locked up and surveilled. The
groups write, "Detention places people in conditions known to cause
mental and physical harm and endanger their lives. Detention is not a
deterrent to migrants who have no choice but to flee dangerous or
violent conditions in search of a better life."


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