People who weren’t fans of President Biden’s original border plans likely aren’t huge supporters of his “New Border Enforcement Actions”, which were rolled out in a White House fact sheet on January 5. That power is extremely circumscribed by statute, which allows DHS to parole aliens into the United States “only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit”. They oppose it on several grounds, including the fact that the program was implemented without giving them an opportunity to comment and, most saliently, that it exceeds DHS’s authority to parole aliens into the United States. Of those “Title 8” migrants, however, fewer than 111,000 were processed under expedited removal — 9.6 percent of the total. Nonetheless, this disclosure offers a window into how, under Biden’s new border plan, migrants will be using CBP One to “initiate” their “protection claims”.
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