Moreover, community-based reception is far less costly than hosting families in detention-like converted hotels. The reception capacity of the Welcome Center and humanitarian reception partners, along with our collaboration and coordination with local, state and federal actors on a bipartisan basis resulted in immigration officials not releasing a single person to the streets in Arizona despite record arrivals last year. The IRC’s Phoenix Welcome Center is a standard-setting example of, and testament to, the impact of safe and orderly reception on asylum-seekers and local communities. Scale up humanitarian border reception: Expanding support to community - and NGO-led humanitarian border reception and coordination ensures that people seeking protection are treated with dignity, order and safety and are kept off the streets.The IRC’s experience suggests five priorities to bring humanity, predictability and fairness to the system - which require support and funding: The IRC is convinced that there is a practical, safe and orderly way through the current situation, grounded in international experience.” IRC’s experience is that the very large majority comply with rules and procedures, and the majority are granted refugee status when they have legal representation. hoping for fair consideration of their request for protection. “Families and individuals fleeing for their lives are coming to the U.S. By contrast, there are policies which are both humane in treating refugees with dignity, and orderly in the way they promote effective management of migration. In fact some of the most cruel solutions produce disorder and empower people smugglers. “The evidence from around the world is that cruelty is not the route to order. However, these efforts are undermined by a serious flaw: the IRC believes it is neither right nor practical to render illegal any attempt to claim asylum that is not based on a prior appointment. The Biden Administration has taken some important measures to build an effective asylum management system, including increased regional resettlement processing, expanding access to the CBP One app, clamping down on misinformation, guaranteeing asylum slots for refugees from four countries, and surging assistance to communities receiving migrants. “The end of the cruel and ineffective Title 42 policy is a necessary step to restore the rule of law and compliance with U.S. Asylum claims in Mexico have reached historic levels, now fielding the highest number of asylum applications in the world after the U.S. I heard on my visit from clients who had come through extreme danger at the Darien Gap - one of the most perilous land migration routes in the world. The vast majority are hosted in states like Colombia, Peru and Mexico. “Today, increasing numbers of people in Latin America have been forced to flee their homes. With Title 42 in place, encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border rose to levels not reached in over 20 years, all while making it impossible for many people facing persecution to access protection. As a global organization operating in 40 countries, the IRC knows all too well the difference between policies that are humane and effective and policies that are inhumane and ineffective. “When I last visited the IRC response at the U.S.-Mexico border three years ago, I witnessed the impacts on IRC’s clients of the ‘wall’ of border policies and practices that made it impossible to access protection guaranteed by U.S. New York, NY, David Miliband, IRC President and CEO stated, “I have just completed an invaluable visit to Arizona, where I met with IRC staff and with clients who have lived through the humanitarian situation south of the U.S.
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