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Erin Barbato on Biden's Order Limiting Asylum at US Border
Clip: Season 2200 Episode 2247 | 1m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
Erin Barbato on President Biden's order to shut down entry ports on the southern border.
University of Wisconsin Law School Immigration Justice Clinic Director Erin Barbato considers President Joe Biden's executive order restricting access for asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Erin Barbato on Biden's Order Limiting Asylum at US Border
Clip: Season 2200 Episode 2247 | 1m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
University of Wisconsin Law School Immigration Justice Clinic Director Erin Barbato considers President Joe Biden's executive order restricting access for asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Also this week, President Joe Biden took action on the hot political issue of immigration and border control.
>> They choose to come without permission and against the law.
They'll be restricted from receiving asylum and staying in the United States.
>> Asylum request would be shut down when ports of entry averaged 2500 encounters with migrants per day, because those numbers are higher than that now, this means that the border could be closed to migrants effective immediately.
We asked Erin Barbato of the UW-Madison law school's Immigration Justice Clinic for her reaction.
>> I'm not surprised that there is a more restrictive policy that is coming across, even from Biden's office, because it has become so politicized and there's so much misunderstanding about the border.
You know, all we do is hear influx in emergency.
And, but we're really forgetting about that.
This is a humanitarian issue.
And that as the United States, we have laws that allow people to seek protection here when they will be persecuted or have been persecuted in their home country, and now we're just blocking that off again.
For many people, that will be, would otherwise be eligible for protections in the US.
But as a political the political nature of immigration right now is I think this is by restricting things at the border is the only things at the border is the only
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