Leading by Example or Undermining Protection: U.S.

High Commissioner for Refugees urged the United States to “swiftly lift the public health-related asylum restrictions that remain in effect at the border and to restore access to asylum for the people whose lives depend on it, in line with international legal and human rights obligations.” When the world marks the 70th anniversary of the Refugee Convention on July 28, 2021, will the United States. [...] The Biden campaign pledged to end the separation of families, the prosecution of parents for minor immigration violations and the systematic prosecution of adult asylum seekers for “misdemeanor illegal entry.” In his February 2 executive order, President Biden directed the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to “promptly review and determine whether to rescind” the asylum entry ban. [...] In his February 2, 2021 executive order, President Biden directed prompt review of some Trump administration policies, including the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), the use of Title 42 public health authority to expel asylum seekers, the asylum entry and transit bans, and the rules relating to agreements to send asylum seekers to unsafe countries. [...] In an April 2021 report titled Failure to Protect, Human Rights First documented the harms resulting from the Biden administration’s decision to continue to illegally expel and block asylum seekers from the country – including kidnappings, violent attacks, and bias-motivated assaults suffered by asylum seekers expelled or blocked in Mexico and the return of asylum seekers to their countries of per. [...] government to “swiftly lift the [Title 42] public health-related asylum restrictions that remain in effect at the border and restore access to asylum for the people whose lives depend on it, in line with international legal and human rights obligations.” To assess whether the United States is complying with its legal obligations under Article 33 of the Refugee Convention, we will report on whether.