The Biden administration is now turning away anyone seeking asylum who didn’t first seek protection in a country they traveled through, or first applied online. Their case then goes to the immigration court system to determine if they can stay in the U.S., but that process can take years. They are screened to determine whether they have a credible fear of persecution in their homeland. People from all over the world travel to the U.S-Mexico border to seek asylum. and international law, anyone who comes to the U.S.
But the Biden administration announced in January that it was ending national COVID-19 emergencies, and so the border restrictions have now gone away.īiden has said the new changes are necessary, in part because Congress has not passed immigration reform in decades. Republicans sued, arguing the restrictions were necessary for border security. President Joe Biden initially kept Title 42 in place after he took office, then tried to end its use in 2022. So migrants were able to try again and again to cross, on the off chance they would get into the U.S. Families and children traveling alone were exempt.īut there were no real consequences when someone illegally crossed the border. officials turned away migrants more than 2.8 million times. Under Title 42, migrants were returned over the border and denied the right to seek asylum. They were then screened and often released to wait out their immigration cases. Before that, migrants could cross illegally, ask for asylum and be allowed into the U.S.
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