BREAKING: Biden Considers Restricting Lawful Asylum Seekers’ Right to Travel Travel Within U.S.

for Immediate Release: September 7, 2023

“Cruel asylum policies and treating people as a burden has human consequences”

EL PASO, TEXAS – According to a report by the Los Angeles Times, the Biden administration is considering forcing migrant families to remain in Texas while awaiting their asylum screening. 

The proposal is inspired by similar efforts from President Reagan’s administration to limit asylum seeker’s movements in the 1980’s. 

Marisa Limón Garza, Executive Director of Las Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso Texas and Ciudad Juárez, shared the following statement:

“When people cross borders their human rights come with them. Politicians like Mayor Adams, Governor Abbott, and President Biden cannot continue playing games with the lives of thousands of children and families. Migrants are not hot potatoes. Cruel asylum policies and treating people as a burden has human consequences. 

“Realizing our values as a country is a collective lift, one that will make us stronger. At this moment it means using resources to treat people humanely, and reforming our legal immigration system to create more robust and orderly pathways to find safety and opportunity in the U.S.  And it means dismantling the deadly barriers that kill and injure those on the move.  Anything short of this, whether seeking to shirk this moral duty or worse actively imperil the safety of these migrants, is needlessly cruel and self-defeating.”