...Meanwhile in the United States, just last month, President Joe Biden, who repeatedly criticized the Trump administration’s cruel and needless immigration policies, decided to outright adopt some of the very same. Crucially, the administration recently implemented an updated version of Trumps’ transit ban, which was struck down repeatedly by federal courts. The rule virtually eliminates asylum for those who did not first apply in any of the countries through which they traveled to reach the U.S. border, constricting an already narrowed pathway to refuge in the country...

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