BREAKING: Biden Administration Resurrects Trump Administration Transit Ban

For Immediate Release: February 21, 2023

El Paso, Texas —A "transit ban," which will further limit refugees' access to asylum, has been announced by the Biden administration today. Migrants who pass through a third country en route to the U.S. without seeking asylum there will be denied asylum under this new measure. 

Marisa Limón Garza, Executive Director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center shared the following statement: 

“Today’s announcement represents a blatant embrace of hateful and illegal anti-asylum policies, which will lead to unnecessary human suffering. Time after time, President Biden has broken his campaign promises to end restrictions on asylum seekers traveling through other countries. These are mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, and thousands of children who are simply looking for a fair chance for their case to be heard. We urge the Biden administration to abandon policy initiatives that further the inhumane and ineffective agenda of the Trump administration.”