Immigrant rights organizations are suing the Biden administration over a new asylum prohibition that "largely mimics" Trump-era tactics that the courts have invalidated. Title 42 expires, focusing attention on the U.S.-Mexico border.
For three years, Title 42, a 1944 law revived by the Centers for Disease Control during the epidemic under then-president Donald Trump, has stopped immigration.
To avoid COVID-19, Title 42 allowed U.S. authorities to quickly deport migrants at land borders.
It ended on May 11 once further COVID-19 measures were removed. Critics said the method was used to block asylum applicants from entering the U.S. CNN said that Title 42 returned 2.5 million migrants between March 2020 and November 2022.
After the scheme ended, people seeking refuge at the border increased. According to Mexican official figures cited by the New York Times, tens of thousands of migrants have crossed into the U.S. since early April.
Southern governors like Texas Governor Greg Abbott have cautioned that the removal of Title 42 might encourage migrants to breach the border into the U.S.
Title 8 is replacing Title 42. Migrants who do not qualify for admittance will be deported and forbidden from reentering the country for at least five years.
Immigration rights activists are denouncing and suing Biden over a new policy.
The Biden administration's new border policy bars migrants from seeking asylum if they've crossed another nation before reaching U.S. land boundaries. Officials said CBP One App-booked migrants are exempt.
The regulation, introduced earlier this year, would imply migrants are ineligible for asylum in the U.S. if they didn't first seek protection in a transit nation like Mexico on their route to the border.
The regulation, introduced earlier this year, would imply migrants are ineligible for asylum in the U.S. if they didn't first seek protection in a transit nation like Mexico on their route to the border.
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