Robert Brodsky, Newsday, Aug. 23, 2024
“The variety of new courtroom circumstances involving immigrants missing everlasting authorized standing has plummeted on Lengthy Island and across the nation since President Joe Biden’s June order proscribing entry into the nation for many asylum-seekers, in keeping with a brand new federal information evaluation. Biden’s presidential proclamation, issued amid a file improve of unlawful border crossings, acknowledged that migrants who cross the border with out authorization — absent distinctive circumstances — would not be eligible for asylum and can be topic to expedited deportation. It did not have an effect on immigrants who beforehand filed authorized claims for asylum. In New York State, new case numbers dropped 74% from December to July, whereas circumstances fell by 68% nationwide and practically 61% on Lengthy Island throughout that very same time-frame, in keeping with the evaluation from Syracuse College-based Transactional Data Entry Clearinghouse or TRAC. The coverage is a change from the earlier follow of letting most individuals who sought asylum after crossing the border illegally be free of custody and stay within the U.S. whereas awaiting courtroom proceedings…. … Cornell Law School professor Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, who codirects a clinic on the college that helps folks apply for asylum, mentioned the long-term authorized viability of Biden’s order stays undetermined. “Immigrants’ rights advocates are difficult the brand new restrictions as unlawful, however it could be a while till a courtroom decides their lawsuit,” mentioned Yale-Loehr….”
