Border Polices Under Trump and Biden

Immigration
Written By Kathleen Paolo

By Dennis Mulligan, Esq.

October 2023

In 2020, there were 281 million international migrants in the world or 3.6% of the global population. U.S. immigration policies to turn back asylum seekers at U.S. borders, beginning under the Trump administration and continuing under President Biden, violate U.S. obligations under refugee conventions and other post-WW II treaties which established international norms for the protection of persons fleeing harm in their own countries.

Kathleen Paolo
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