from Western Canada through Wisconsin and Michigan. Also
this week, President Joe Biden took action on the hot political
issue of immigration and border control.
>> They choose to come without permission and against the law.
They'll be restricted from receiving asylum and staying in
the United States. >> Asylum request would be shut
down when ports of entry averaged 2500 encounters with
migrants per day, because those numbers are higher than that
now, this means that the border could be closed to migrants
effective immediately. We asked Erin Barbato of the UW-Madison
law school's Immigration Justice Clinic for her reaction.
>> I'm not surprised that there is a more restrictive policy
that is coming across, even from Biden's office, because it has
become so politicized and there's so much misunderstanding
about the border. You know, all we do is hear influx in
emergency. And, but we're really forgetting about that. This is a
humanitarian issue. And that as the United States, we have laws
that allow people to seek protection here when they will
be persecuted or have been persecuted in their home
country, and now we're just blocking that off again. For
many people, that will be, would otherwise be eligible for
protections in the US. But as a political the political nature
of immigration right now is I think this is by restricting
things at the border is the only things at the border is the only