S.2 the use of the emergency authority, rendering it much Continued humanitarian crises in Cuba and Haiti, less straightforward than the simple mathematics of natural disasters in Central America and the Caribbean, crossings (for example, the so-called “discretionary” and threats to security and democracy in countries from authority at the 4,000/day level would in fact be Guatemala to Nicaragua to. [...] grown dramatically in the last decade, feeding demand for migration by word of mouth and social media and The bill gives the federal government significant making it easier than ever for vulnerable and threatened discretion over exactly when to implement this new people in countries around the world to come to the emergency summary-deportation process and does not Western Hemisphere and travel nor. [...] avoid persecution by moving to another location in their Furthermore, the bill requires the government to allow country of nationality, or if they have no nationality, people to seek asylum at ports of entry even during by moving to another location in their country of “last a border emergency and requires the government habitual residence.” While a version of this bar is to maintain capacity for. [...] Changes to Detention and Alternatives to Detention The First Increases to Legal Immigration Since 1990 The bill requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ensure consistent policies for alternatives to Notably, for the first time since 1990, the bill would detention across all sectors. [...] The bill would also establish an it uses to fund most of its work—taking the burden “Afghan-Ally” referral program to expand eligibility and off immigrants to fund humanitarian processing, but streamline applications of at-risk Afghan allies to the instead relying on future Congresses to pick up the slack.
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