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Biden's immigration and protection challenges for undocumented immigrants in 2022
Democrats in Congress and President Biden present some difficulties in 2022 on immigration issues, such as the insurance for the undocumented guaranteed in 2020 and the decrease in delays in the designation of visas.
Despite gaining ground on immigration issues in 2021, President Biden faces enormous difficulties this year. One of them is the end of deeply repressed programs against refugee seekers and total control of the border.
The Biden Administration's Immigration Challenges for 2022
1. Border control
Experts show that the borderline presents a true emergency, as a consequence of the measures imposed by former President Donald Trump, but currently the Biden administration is having a hard time ending them.
They allude to the Migrant Protection Protocols (PPM) or Remain in Mexico and accelerate the evacuation of foreigners under Title 42, executed in March 2020 as a protection measure against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Andrew Selee, president of Migration Policy, assured that, if the border area is not fixed, this will be a problem, and controlling it means reducing the number of individuals who come without documentation.
"If they cannot control it, it will be a disaster in the midterm elections, it will be one of the issues that punishes the Democrats," added the president of Migration Policy.
2. Asylum plan
In August, the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) distributed in the Federal Register a notification of a proposed rulemaking to work on handling refugee claims, to which Selee suggests that would create an alternative shelter plan.
The Secretary of Public Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, was the one who made the program known.
This project presents the possibility of quickly handling refugee applicants and sending their cases to court, where they would be for half a year, but which would also take into consideration the facilitated expulsion of people who do not meet the asylum requirements.
That bill, like the MPP, has an immediate impact on the circumstance in the immigration courts, where the overabundance of 1.5 million cases, which requires further changes.
Researcher Kocher warned that immigration judges are working as well as possible, despite having limitations. The Trump organization attacked them directly, recruiting a ton of fairly moderate designated authorities.
3. Title 42
Although about 1.7 million immigrants showed up at the border in 2021, roughly 1.5 million were eliminated for different reasons, as many as 1 million under Title 42, according to information from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and others under Title 8, by neglecting the refugee prerequisites.
Kocher points out that, being one of the projects most analyzed by immigration specialists, Title 42 would be fundamentally important to finish.
If the Covid-19 pandemic, and currently the omicron variant, does not allow the Administration to return to a certain normality, the technique will continue to cause discomfort.
The researcher pointed out that in the event that the problem of the pandemic can be addressed and things recover completely, the Administration will have difficulties, to substantiate, Title 42.
"It should disappear, now, it was never justified, but even if it is justified (by the pandemic), and it disappears after the pandemic is over, then the Administration will have to decide how it handles border control," Kocher said.
4. Central America
Kamala Harris, current vice president, is tasked with leading the Central America forward plan, which has been delayed to push forward, though last year ended with some organizations swearing $1.2 billion on speculation.
Its objective is to offer the citizens of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala opportunities to prevent them from moving to the United States for economic reasons.
The task also incorporates the Sembrando Oportunidades program, carried out with Mexico, which means giving financing to agricultural students and joining with companies in the area.
Due to the slow speed of the plan in Central America, the analyses towards Vice President Harris have been broadened, and she could be the political victim of the deficiencies in migration.
Selee believes that Vice President Kamala Harris could be a political victim. However, life is long. He assures that in this first year being part of the administration, he can still reposition himself.
“The problem is that they have not made much progress in the Central American countries. The goal has a better chance of ordering things in the long term”, concluded Selee.
5. Further, develop the USCIS system
In its fiscal year 2021 report, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) acknowledged the backlogs it faces.
President Biden's activities have allowed the organization to propel itself for quite some time, utilizing its assets, for example, reusing the biometric information of 2.5 million candidates since March 2020.
Her greatest achievement is helping family reunification with the Family Reunification Task Force.
USCIS established a process (parole) and approved about 100 individuals, during fiscal year 2021, to assist in the reunification of families isolated by the Zero Tolerance policy and approaches related to the past organization.
Attorney Susan Cohen is the president of Mintz Immigration Practice and writer of the book "Journeys From There to Here: Stories of Immigrant Trials, Triumphs and Contributions".
Cohen realized that the main test is to decrease the times of assigning visas, of any type. She assures that it is something that she had not seen in 35 years practicing her profession.
Cohen insists that USCIS is taking so long that his job approval ends and his bosses have to ask that they get off the payroll and come back when the card arrives. Describe this as a developing problem.
"The overabundance has become so illogical that individuals are filing claims across the country now to drive Immigration Services to do their job and produce the card," he reiterated.
6. New DACA regulation
The specialists advised agreed to guarantee permanence, without a major judicial challenge, for the visionaries who benefited under the DACA program.
Securities for Dreamers and DACA Recipients. It is seen that the Administration has proposed another rule. Significant evidence is expected in the case of Texas, which has gone to great lengths to disprove the program.
Selee noted that the rule being prepared by the Biden Administration was rebuked for being seen as a preface to the disappointment of immigration security in Congress.
Formalizing DACA a bit more would be a tremendous achievement, or TPS, too, are things that could be done, which give individuals greater security and increase the amount of permanence.
Attorney Cohen joined that position, and acknowledged that the goal of the Biden Administration is to seek to secure visionaries, but also warned of the danger in court.
“A court ruled against the Biden Administration on DACA. And at this time, no new DACA applications can be submitted… This will be an important issue… if we do not get a legislative solution, it will continue to be a hot topic for the Biden Administration”, Cohen concluded.
