As the administration prepares to implement President Joe Biden’s asylum restriction, the order has already been met with difficulties.
Immigration experts have outlined a number of problems with Biden’s executive order, which prohibited migrants from requesting asylum if they showed up at the border between the United States and Mexico. These problems include potential gaps in the order’s funding that could allow for a rise in deportations, as well as potentially exploitable exemptions.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) believes that Mexican cartels are already working to decipher the new regulations and figure out how to get around them.
Grassley sent a statement to the Washington Examiner: “If history is any guide, expect the Biden administration to continue to flout the law while dishonest people hunt for ways around the restrictions.
The senator expressed concerns that the order’s excessive number of exceptions may cause issues for ICE and the Border Patrol.
“This could very well encourage more illegal immigration at non-ports of entry and further exploitation of unaccompanied children, who are exempted from the order entirely,” he said.
