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U.S. to Begin Allowing Migrants to Apply for Asylum Under a New System
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will begin to allow certain migrants to ask for asylum as they arrive at the southwestern border at the end of the month, even as it continues to use a pandemic-era public health rule to quickly turn migrants away without the option to seek it. The new process, intended to […]
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Republicans Wrongly Tie Biden Immigration Policies to Baby Formula Shortage
Under the settlement, the government also agreed to quickly release children from detention. To get around Flores and detain adults who were traveling with children, the Trump administration separated families at the border. When that policy incited immense backlash, the administration produced regulations to replace Flores, but a federal judge ultimately rejected that effort. Despite […]
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Democrats Face Tough Questions as a Border Saga Enters a New Chapter
The Biden administration is grappling with the political fallout of the end of Title 42, a pandemic-era policy established during the Trump administration that turned away most migrants from the border. I spoke with Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Michael D. Shear, who reported recently on the administration’s divisions over immigration policy. Our conversation has been edited […]
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Disagreement and Delay: How Infighting Over the Border Divided the White House
WASHINGTON — President Biden was livid. He had been in office only two months and there was already a crisis at the southwest border. Thousands of migrant children were jammed into unsanitary Border Patrol stations. Republicans were accusing Mr. Biden of flinging open the borders. And his aides were blaming one another. Facing his bickering […]
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Novak Djokovic Can Remain in Australia, Judge Rules
SYDNEY, Australia — Novak Djokovic, the Serbian tennis star, moved one step closer to competing for his record 21st Grand Slam title after an Australian judge ordered his release from immigration detention on Monday, ending a five-day saga over his refusal to be vaccinated for Covid-19. The judge, Anthony Kelly, found that Djokovic had been […]
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Many Migrants Are Quickly Expelled, but Others Can Stay. Here’s Why.
“We agreed to participate on a fixed-term basis to remove barriers and help as many people as possible access their right to seek international protection, with the expectation that the current administration would end the policy soon after,” Meghan Lopez, the International Rescue Committee’s regional vice president for Latin America, said in a statement on […]
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Ahead of Summit, U.S. Deported Chinese Nationals, and China Let an American Leave
Shortly before President Biden and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, met for a virtual summit this week, the United States sent seven Chinese nationals who had been convicted of crimes back to China, and Beijing lifted an exit ban on an American citizen who had been blocked from leaving for four years. One of the Chinese […]
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