Christian Smith
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) – The Southern Border Communities Coalition rejected President Biden’s executive order to limit the number of asylum seekers as simply a way to try to “score political points during an election year.”
Additionally, Lillian Serrano, director of SBCC, said migrants are not paying attention to what Biden does and will come anyway.
“We don’t really expect any executive action to have an impact on the number of migrants coming into our country. They are not watching what the president does, they are driven by necessity and their situation,” said Serrano. “What we may see is a surge of migrants to remote routes into the country, which will increase the number of deaths and human suffering.”
Serrano worries that migrants, who rely on smugglers, will simply move to more desolate areas along the southern border as they try to enter the US.
She believes Biden’s executive order is a violation of national and international law.
Serrano went on to say that migrant advocates are likely to take legal action to overturn President Biden’s executive order, something they did when the Trump administration tried to limit the number of asylum seekers.
“Any attempt to limit the number of people who can exercise their human rights violates not only our own laws in this country, but also international law – without changing the law, and that is something only Congress can do, limits the that the administration can legally do.”
Others, like Democratic U.S. Senator Alex Padilla of California, are also critical of the president’s decision today to limit the number of asylum seekers.
“By reviving Trump’s asylum ban, President Biden has undermined American values and abandoned our nation’s obligations to provide people fleeing persecution, violence and authoritarianism an opportunity to seek refuge in the United States,” Padilla said. “This asylum ban will fail to resolve the challenges at our border, as it did under the Trump administration, it will result in people with legitimate asylum claims being prevented from seeking safety and returned in harm’s way.”
San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, a Republican, also criticized Biden’s executive order.
“If the president really cared about securing the border, he would go to San Diego and see the more than 150,000 people who have been released onto our streets or the 52,000 special interest aliens who have crossed into San Diego,” Desmond said.
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