The non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW), which specializes in monitoring the international human rights situation, has warned that the new immigration policy announced by US President Joe Biden is practically continuation of the doctrine marked by his predecessor, Donald Trump, and it continues to pose a serious threat to the personal safety of migrants waiting on the southern border with Mexico.

In theory, Biden’s new immigration law would permanently repeal the so-called Section 42, a public health statute that allows collective expulsion of any migrant and asylum seeker attempt to cross United States land borders without an individual assessment of their circumstances and protection needs.

HRW, however, argues that the new legislation does not address the direct effects of the previous rules:lack of protection to which migrants are subject.

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HRW explains that Biden’s new system will prevent asylum seekers from entering across the border for five years unless they receive an appointment through an electronic application. This appointment, say the NGO, almost impossible to get starting from the daily intake “it’s extremely limited and sells out in minutes”. In general terms, the new system relies on the pernicious assumption that an asylum seeker cannot enter a country by default.

Many migrants wait in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico due to low temperatures and under pressure from Mexican security forces to leave their camps and move to shelters where They are easy prey for the cartels.who use them as slaves or directly kidnap them to extort money from their families in their countries of origin, denounces HRW.

“Despite Biden having two years to plan the repeal of Section 42 and campaign with promises of a humane border, Biden revisited one Trump policy after another, resulting in countless abuses against mostly blacks and immigrant immigrants. . Hispanics,” complained HRW researcher Ari Sawyer. .