“The Biden administration is considering getting behind new restrictions on who can seek asylum and an expanded deportation process to secure new aid for Ukraine and Israel in a supplemental funding bill,” Reuters reports.
The Wall Street Journal reports the Biden administration is open to some GOP asylum proposals — including those “deeply unpopular with Democrats” and which echo policies championed by Donald Trump.
“Among those are a change to asylum law that would tighten the initial screening standard migrants must clear to proceed with a full asylum case. They have also signaled openness to designating countries as ‘safe third countries’ where asylum seekers at the border could be sent, and expanding rapid deportations to be used nationwide rather than just at the border. The White House also now favors expanding immigration detention…”
