🚨SCOOP: Biden Team Plans One More Asylum Ban
Senior White House advisors Blas Nuñez-Neto and Liz Sherwood Randal are behind the latest anti-immigrant proposal.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s senior immigration advisor Blas Nuñez-Neto is quietly pushing for another asylum restriction before the end of the presidency. Together with homeland security advisor Liz Sherwood Randall, Nuñez-Neto is pressing the president through White House chief of staff Jeff Zients to move the asylum bars up to the initial screening process, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.
If enacted, the change would make it much easier for border agents to remove migrants before they can meet with an attorney. None of the unilateral asylum bars passed by the Biden administration are part of statute, leading some to question their legality.
The push by Nuñez-Neto and Sherwood Randall comes as migrant rights advocates desperately push the president to do anything he can to protect communities before Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on January 6. Trump was elected on a broad mandate to deport millions of m…