What is the difference between credible fear interviews in arrivals by border and by sea?

The Biden Administration plans increase the rigor of "credible fear" interviews on the southern border , a key element to determine the right to asylum. In this way he hopes to reduce the number of immigrants crossing from Mexico. By increasing the rigor this process would get closer to the standard currently appliedto the rafters that arrive by sea.

In an interview withCyberCuba, lawyer Willy Allen, an immigration expert, attributed the severity of the credible fear interviews to those who are intercepted on rafts trying to make landfall, to the fact that the United States Government "does not want to have a massive success of arrivals by sea" and This happens, he added, because they "study history" and do not forget that Jimmy Carter lost his re-election in 1980, to Ronald Reagan, in part, "because he allowed Mariel" and this "created a very big problem for him." . Also to Bill Clinton, who was governor of Arkansas at the time. That explains what he did later with the rafters. "He didn't receive them. He sent them to pick them up and sent them to Panama and Guantanamo."

Allen also made reference to Janet Reno, former attorney general of the United States, who in life was a friend of his mother in Miami and also offered him a good position in Washington, which he did not accept because he claims that he does not know how to work under orders. of no one, he said in the Chambers, at the time of his re-election, that none of the rafters who were in Panama and Guantanamo were going to enter the United States and he managed to stop the crisis at sea, although we already know what happened next: They all began to enter in 1997, after the elections.

In Allen's opinion, the tragedy of arrivals by sea weighs heavily on these types of political decisions. "Let's not forget that many people died in Mariel," he said. "The American Government does not want, in any way, it to be thought that a departure by sea will have any type of positive reception in the United States. I believe that that is the main reason why they are very tough with interviews on the high seas and return so many people to Cuba and Haiti.

On the border, however, "it's a little different," the lawyer admits. However, Allen highlights that only 15% of immigrants who enter through the border are interviewed, "because there are no officers." As he explains, a credible fear interview can last two to three hours, they are over the phone and with an interpreter. Sometimes they are even through video calls. "They don't have enough officers to do that many interviews."

To this situation of constant arrival of immigrants to the southern border, we must add the budget crisis that exists once again in the United States. "At this time there are not the funds that have been requested to increase the number of people who will do interviews at the border and the number of detention beds," he said.

Willy Allen also explained to CiberCuba the three reasons why Cubans can lose their residence in the United States; thefive reasons why they can request asylum and under what circumstancesYou can lose your green card if you travel to Cuba.