{"id":5585,"date":"2021-07-12T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T17:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2021-07-12T17:04:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T17:04:55","slug":"americas-asylum-system-is-broken-heres-how-biden-could-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5585","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s asylum system is broken. Here\u2019s how Biden could fix it."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The US can anticipate these spikes, which are symptoms of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Central America\u2019s \u201cNorthern Triangle\u201d \u2014 Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. For years, these countries have suffered from gang violence<\/strong><\/a>, government corruption<\/strong><\/a>, extortion<\/strong><\/a>, and some of the highest rates of poverty<\/strong><\/a> and violent crime<\/strong><\/a> in the world. The pandemic-related economic downturn and a pair of hurricanes<\/strong><\/a> late last year that devastated Honduras and Guatemala, in particular, have only exacerbated those longstanding problems. Many of the migrants arriving on the southern border, sometimes in large caravans, likely felt they had no choice but to seek refuge elsewhere”
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“The US doesn\u2019t have a system in place to ensure that migrants are treated humanely and in accordance with federal law when these spikes occur. Children have consequently been kept in jail-like holding facilities operated by US Customs and Border Protection beyond the 72-hour legal time limit. That is why the Obama administration, the Trump administration, and the Biden administration have been condemned for keeping \u201ckids in cages.\u201d”
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“several immigrant advocacy groups and think tanks have devised potential frameworks to improve migrant processing. Republican Sen. John Cornyn and Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema have also drafted a bill<\/a> that would implement related reforms, though it\u2019s not clear whether the legislation will draw significant support from members of either party. Those strategies will become all the more important as the Biden administration begins to lift pandemic-related restrictions<\/a> at the southern border and resumes processing migrants en masse.”   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/22442165\/biden-border-asylum-crisis-children<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The US can anticipate these spikes, which are symptoms of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Central America\u2019s \u201cNorthern Triangle\u201d \u2014 Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. For years, these countries have suffered from gang violence, government corruption, extortion, and some of the highest rates of poverty and violent crime in the world. The pandemic-related economic downturn and a pair of hurricanes late last year that devastated Honduras and Guatemala, in particular, have only exacerbated those longstanding problems. Many of the migrants arriving on the southern border, sometimes in large caravans, likely felt they had no choice but to seek refuge elsewhere”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The US doesn\u2019t have a system in place to ensure that migrants are treated humanely and in accordance with federal law when these spikes occur. Children have consequently been kept in jail-like holding facilities operated by US Customs and Border Protection beyond the 72-hour legal time limit. That is why the Obama administration, the Trump administration, and the Biden administration have been condemned for keeping \u201ckids in cages.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“several immigrant advocacy groups and think tanks have devised potential frameworks to improve migrant processing. Republican Sen. John Cornyn and Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema have also drafted a bill that would implement related reforms, though it\u2019s not clear whether the legislation will draw significant support from members of either party. Those strategies will become all the more important as the Biden administration begins to lift pandemic-related restrictions at the southern border and resumes processing migrants en masse.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[268,25,780,619],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asylum","tag-immigration","tag-joe-biden","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}