SAN ANTONIO LEGAL EXPERTS TRY TO DIGEST BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S NEW IMMIGRATION POLICY DAYS AFTER IT TAKES EFFECT
Just days after President Joe Biden dropped a new executive order limiting asylum seekers, San Antonio legal experts are trying to digest what exactly this means for Texas.
The policy that went into effect earlier this week will temporarily stop granting asylum to migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border if illegal crossings pass a certain threshold.
Migrant advocacy groups are concerned about the policy’s long-term effects.
Krystle Cartagena, a managing attorney with the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, called it “horrifying.”
“It is disappointing. It’s disheartening,” Cartagena said. “People are desperate. They will leave situations that they need to flee from, and now, we’re just setting them up to be in pathways of increased violence again.”
