This week, the Biden administration proposed new immigration guidelines to reimplement asylum utility measures from the Trump administration that one might even argue is a return to the “Stay in Mexico” coverage. However after a information transient Tuesday night time, ABC got here off reasonably dissatisfied on Wednesday’s Good Morning America with President Biden incurring “fierce criticism kind his personal social gathering” and lawsuits on the horizon.

Given the administration’s refusal to deal with the explosion in gotaways, develop and fortify bodily border partitions, and penchant for permitting unlawful immigrants to flee into the U.S. with imprecise notices to seem and notices to report, it’s secure to be extremely skeptical.

Tuesday’s World Information Tonight didn’t foreshadow any discontent as ABC anchor David Muir defined “the Biden administration is proposing stricter new guidelines for migrants making use of for asylum with the pandemic limits now set to run out.”

Muir continued:

Migrants would now be required to use for asylum in international locations they journey by means of on their strategy to the U.S. If they arrive to the U.S. anyway, they might apply at entry factors however most of those that cross illegally, authorities say, will probably be despatched again. These pandemic-era guidelines often known as Title 42 that allowed migrants to be despatched again with out a listening to, are anticipated to finish in Might.

However the subsequent day, ABC will need to have acquired speaking factors. Co-host Robin Roberts lamented in a tease of “new border guidelines” which are the Biden administration’s “hardest immigration coverage but” which have resulted in “fierce criticism from his personal social gathering.”

Senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott reiterated the “the hardest immigration coverage but” line and mentioned “it comes as now we have seen a document variety of migrants cross our southern border.”

Explaining the brand new coverage, she mentioned it might change into “obligatory for migrants to use for asylum within the international locations that they’re touring by means of on the best way to the US.”

And, as a result of “this plan does mirror the insurance policies proposed beneath the Trump administration” aside from the exemption of minors, this represented the crossing of a pink line:

Nonetheless, the President dealing with main pushback from members of his personal social gathering. Democrats are urging the Biden administration to rethink, insisting that they should be targeted on increasing pathways, not limiting them and immigrations advocates are planning to sue the administration to maintain it from going into impact as quickly as subsequent month.

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To see the related transcripts from February 21 and 22, click on “develop.”

ABC’s World Information Tonight with David Muir
February 21, 2023
6:45 p.m. Jap

DAVID MUIR: Now, to the southern border, and tonight, the Biden administration is proposing stricter new guidelines for migrants making use of for asylum with the pandemic limits now set to run out. Migrants would now be required to use for asylum in international locations they journey by means of on their strategy to the U.S. If they arrive to the U.S. anyway, they might apply at entry factors however most of those that cross illegally, authorities say, will probably be despatched again. These pandemic-era guidelines often known as Title 42 that allowed migrants to be despatched again with out a listening to, are anticipated to finish in Might.

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ABC’s Good Morning America
February 23, 2023
7:01 a.m. Jap [TEASE]

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: New Border Rules; Immigration Battle]

ROBIN ROBERTS: New border guidelines. The Biden administration proposing its hardest immigration coverage but. Why the President’s dealing with fierce criticism from his personal social gathering.

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7:11 a.m. Jap

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: New This Morning; New Border Rules Spark Backlash; Biden Administration Unveils New Proposal to Limit Asylum Claims]

ROBERTS:  Again right here at house to immigration, the Biden administration unveiling a brand new proposal to restrict asylum claims on the southern border. Our senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott is on the White Home with these particulars for us. Good morning, Rachel.

RACHEL SCOTT: Good morning, Robin, and that is the hardest immigration coverage but from the Biden administration and it comes as now we have seen a document variety of migrants cross our southern border. So, because it stands now, migrants are capable of apply for asylum no matter how they entered the US, however beneath this new proposed rule that will change, making it obligatory for migrants to use for asylum within the international locations that they’re touring by means of on the best way to the US. Now, this plan does mirror the insurance policies proposed beneath the Trump administration, however does make one clear distinction and that it doesn’t apply to youngsters. Nonetheless, the President dealing with main pushback from members of his personal social gathering. Democrats are urging the Biden administration to rethink, insisting that they should be targeted on increasing pathways, not limiting them and immigrations advocates are planning to sue the administration to maintain it from going into impact as quickly as subsequent month, Michael.

MICHAEL STRAHAN: Alright, thanks a lot for that, Rachel.