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The Biden administration had managed to restrict asylum by opening up some other legal avenues and hope that would stand in the court. As of today, there’s almost no way of getting protection at the US border or anywhere along a route to the United States,
said Andrew Selee, president of the think tank Migration Policy Institute They may wait for a while and see what’s going to happen. Whether they wait for a day or a few months, if they’re this far and committed, they’re eventually going to try anyway,
the Homeland Security official said, referring to migrants The decision to eliminate all avenues to seek asylum, even for families with children fleeing for their lives, is a stunning development, one that makes a mockery of our post WWII commitment never to summarily send people back to danger,
said Lee Gelernt, ACLU attorney who led many of the challenges to Trump’s border policies in the first administration, in a statement They say they do want immigrants in the United States, but legal ones. Obviously, we did all this legally. … Right now we don’t know what’s going to happen,
Let's clean the floor before the others get here,
she said, grabbing a broom and mop They're not going to let you into the app, baby."
Turning to Sofia, Mendez said softly I asked God to soften the president's heart,
He told me: you get warned twice. The third time we won't be talking,
In the face of bad weather, put on a good face."
One migrant quoted a Spanish proverb that roughly translates as We were one day away,
Mendez said in disbelief as she talked through her options with other migrants, many Venezuelans Bring me the phone now, quickly,
Mendez told Sofia, who was upstairs in the shelter We are a little safer now because we are here,
he said just before handing over his documents to U.S. authorities The message with CBP One being shut down is basically, ‘Hey we’re not going to allow you to show up; the doors are not going to be open.’ For that to be meaningful, there has to be some level of consequence if you bypass any lawful means and you’re doing it illegally,
I reached the border twice and I was returned twice, but I didn’t lose hope,
We don't know what is going to happen,
said the 31-year-old, one of millions of people who have left crisis-hit Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro was inaugurated this month for a third term after a disputed election victory I'm a little scared because with everything we've been through, everything we've fought for, with all the sacrifices we've made, it's very hard to have the doors closed on us and not be able to cross,
said Jefferzon Celedon, a 24-year-old Venezuelan Have compassion and let us cross,
We have to keep going and not be swayed by what people say, whether they close it or not. We will see when we arrive,
Since we are here, please let us in, please, after all the work we have put in to get here, let us enter your country, so that we can better ourselves in life and be somebody,
It’s over, they eliminated it,
said Margelis Tinoco, from Colombia, who traveled with her husband and son
