Trump rushes to enact asylum restrictions ahead of Biden presidency

[DonViejo]

BY CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ

JANUARY 11, 2021 / 10:28 AM / CBS NEWS

As part of an 11th hour blitz of regulations, the outgoing Trump administration has finalized several asylum restrictions that are set to take effect shortly before or after President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office in nine days.

The rules represent President Trump's last major effort to reshape the U.S. asylum system, which his administration has argued is abused by economic migrants. One set of rules, which was slated to take effect Monday until a federal court blocked it last week, would erect restrictions throughout the asylum process and generally disqualify victims of gender-based persecution, domestic abuse and gang violence from U.S. refuge.

Another rule set to take effect a day before Inauguration Day would revive a policy struck down in court last summer that bars non-Mexican migrants, including unaccompanied children, from applying for U.S. asylum at the southern border. A third regulation, set to take effect two days after Mr. Biden is sworn in, would allow officials to render asylum-seekers ineligible for U.S. protection if they are determined to exhibit symptoms of a contagious disease, like COVID-19, or if they have hailed from or traveled through countries where a disease is "prevalent or epidemic."

"These rules, if they are actually implemented, will have a devastating effect on asylum-seekers and lead the United States to turn away to people seeking refuge back to the very countries that they have fled," Eleanor Acer, the director of the refugee protection program for the group Human Rights First, told CBS News.

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[snowybirdie]

1. Rules can be changed

Biden will be President in 9 days.

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2. Mail order melania

[Thekaspervote]

3. They think these cannot be undone...that's how little the idiot knows!!