Washington-. Pushing for immigration reform in the United States today is one of President Joe Biden’s unfulfilled campaign commitments and could undermine Democratic scrutiny of Congress in November.
The Democratic Party will lose November’s election in the United States if it fails to live up to its legal promises, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren predicted this Sunday while appearing on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday program.
Warren asserted that those marked with the blue color will lose in the 2022 midterm elections if they fail to stick to their legislative priorities, and experts point out that the Latino voice matters on the immigration issue.
Among those priorities is the progress of reform, which has not overcome opposition from broad Republican circles in the legislature, despite the president’s early inauguration of an initiative that has remained on paper.
The prospects for the blue tent are complicated, as confirmed by a press release signed by Ryan Devereaux and published in The Intercept, which revealed tens of thousands of people have been arrested at the border with Mexico as a result of the president’s immigration policies.
Biden led to the lengthy detention of tens of thousands of asylum seekers last year, who also suffered harassment and torture, according to a new report by a human rights group.
A 66-page report released by Human Rights First draws on nearly 300 individual accounts and profiles activists, dissidents, student organizers and others who are fleeing persecution in dozens of countries only to spend months in prisons across the United States to languish.
The text documents dehumanized conditions at these centers, increasing levels of racist and abusive treatment of Black and LGBTQ+ asylum seekers and children held in adult facilities, among other anomalies cited by The Intercept.
Rebecca Gendelman, the report’s author, told the publication that “detention is dehumanizing, dangerous and cruel. It encourages family separation and re-traumatizes people.”
This comes as the Biden administration prepares to repeal Title 42, which has summarily removed or turned back most migrants, including asylum seekers, at and between official ports of entry.
Human Rights First’s report raises concerns that the Biden administration’s current law enforcement priorities could result in more asylum seekers finding themselves in US detention centers in the coming months.
According to Gendelman, the government has the legal authority to grant parole to asylum seekers and other immigrants. His decision to detain her, he added, endangers lives, separates families, causes trauma, wastes resources and penalizes people for exercising their right to asylum, increasing the danger Democrats face in November.