In a surprising turn of events, the Biden administration has issued new directives to the U.S. Border Patrol that sharply contrast with earlier policies regarding migrant admissions, particularly from the Eastern Hemisphere. This change was communicated to border patrol agents just days after President Biden announced a cap on asylum seekers at 2,500 per day.
The new directive, which appears to counter Tuesday’s announced asylum cap, instructs border patrol agents to allow entry to migrants from a vast majority of Eastern Hemisphere countries, irrespective of their previous asylum-seeking efforts in other nations. These migrants, often traveling through multiple countries without seeking asylum, have been termed “extra-hemispheric migrants” by administration officials.
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This term is part of a broader linguistic strategy that seems to reshape the narrative around immigration, reminiscent of the transition from “illegal” to “undocumented” immigrants. Such terminology changes reflect deeper shifts in policy perspectives, though they’re not without precedent in U.S. political discourse.
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