President Joe Biden's administration will announce new changes in political asylum policy, which would allow the United States to accelerate the expulsion of immigrants considered "unfit" at the border.
Four people familiar with the matter confirmed to the media Political that the changes would be introduced in the interview of credible fear, where "immigrants may be deemed unfit to apply for and receive asylum."
Currently, that eligibility is determined based on a series of factors evaluated at the time of the interview; but the authorities will propose the application of the new rules during that initial selection stage, the publication details.
According to the information, this change will accelerate the expulsion of immigrants who do not qualify to remain in the country due to risks to national security or public safety.
Asylum officers working at border points take several hours to conduct credible fear screenings and the new policy would lengthen the process even further, which has created some uncertainty because this will put more pressure on workers already facing to record demands.
The Department of Homeland Security will make the proposed rule on Thursday, and it is not expected to include "sweeping changes to immigration policy that Biden administration officials have weighed, such as using a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit immigrants from seeking asylum between ports of entry."
In recent years the president Democrat has faced serious pressure within his party to act alone on the border after the failure of a bipartisan Senate immigration plan earlier this year.
Now Biden officials are trying to take advantage of the failure of the border deal to reduce Donald Trump's lead in polls on borders and immigration.
On Tuesday, House Democrats called on Biden for executive action to "immediately take new steps to restore order at the southern border and fix our broken immigration system."
This week Donald Trump, Biden's political rival ahead of the November elections, said that if he wins, he will carry out the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States.
In an interview with the newspaper Time, the businessman emphasized the need to address what he considers "a unsustainable migration crisis for the country", making use of the police, the Army and without ruling out the creation of detention camps for immigrants.
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