WASHINGTON — The imminent overnight end of the COVID\u002D19 public health emergency felt more like a crisis than cause for celebration Thursday as Homeland…
With Title 42’s expiration, the Biden administration is imposing tough new rules that they say provide a deterrent for those seeking to enter the country illegally while creating new “legal pathways” for those with legitimate grounds for asylum.
They will also be presumed ineligible for asylum, face a ban on re-entry of at least five years and ultimately criminal prosecution if they are caught a second time, he added. Homeland Security, the Pentagon and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have been “surging personnel” to the southern border to deal with the influx, he added, including more than 24,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents and officers, as well as thousands of soldiers, contractors, asylum officers and immigration judges.
Whenever the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border demands it, “there’s a compulsory movement of Customs and Border Protection agents from the northern border to the southern border,” Higgins said. Customs and Border Protection would not say Thursday how many of its agents had been diverted from northern sectors, but said it does not anticipate any impact on operations at the Canadian border.Article content
Mayorkas acknowledged that his department needs more resources and a more functional immigration system, laying the blame for both squarely at the feet of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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