Facing more migrants at the border and significant capacity constraints in detention centers ahead of Title 42's expiration, the Biden administration is cutting the time asylum-seekers have to find attorneys.
Title 42, a public health policy invoked to control migration at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to expire on May 11.
“In support of the Department’s goal to more quickly provide relief to those who are eligible while more quickly removing those who are not, effective immediately the minimum time between the noncitizen’s acknowledgment of receipt of the Form M-444, Information about Credible Fear Interview, and the credible fear interview will be 24 hours,” a lead U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official on asylum wrote in the email announcing the change.
USCIS will “continually assess” whether a return to the 48-hour wait period is appropriate, according to the email.limits asylum for those who cross without authorizationIn credible fear interviews, migrants who convince an asylum officer that there is a significant possibility that they could establish they have a well-founded fear of persecution in their home country usually get to stay in the U.S. and pursue their asylum cases in immigration court.
The Trump policy was one of the first changes under the leadership of then USCIS head Ken Cuccinelli, who followed the Trump administration’s continuous efforts to limit asylum at the border and deport more migrants. Ur Jaddou, now the director of the agency, told BuzzFeed News that the change was part of Trump’s effort to limit people from entering the U.S.
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