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Biden order limiting asylum at southern border will harm people's health [1]

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Date: 2024-06

Based on its experience working with asylum seekers and migrants in Mexico for more than a decade, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely concerned about the devastating impacts this order will have on the physical and mental health of people seeking safety. Our teams working on the northern border of Mexico continue to witness the suffering caused by years of harsh immigration policies that have trapped vulnerable people seeking asylum in inhumane conditions at the US-Mexico border.

Avril Benoît, MSF USA chief executive officer, gave the following statement:

“In signing this executive order, President Biden has betrayed his promise to build a fair, safe and humane immigration system. This order is not only counter to US law and international law, it puts people’s lives and health at risk.

Today’s decision will trap vulnerable people, including young families, in insecure cities in Mexico and put them in grave danger. The Biden administration continues to prioritize optics and political expediency at the expense of thousands of people who are attempting to exercise their legal right to seek asylum.

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[1] Url: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/biden-order-limiting-asylum-southern-border-will-harm-peoples-health

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