U.S. prepares to limit asylum claims at Mexican border as Title 42 ends
illegally, the same day sweeping COVID-19 restrictions at the border are set to end, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Friday.
The administration is encouraging migrants to use legal pathways to enter the country or face new, sped-up deportation processes that will come with the implementation of the asylum rule.Biden restricts Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who illegally cross U.S. border The anticipated increase in border crossings will be “extremely challenging,” Mayorkas said during a press conference in Brownsville, Texas.
Migrant arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border have risen in recent weeks, which Mayorkas attributed to a spike in Venezuelan crossers, the reason for which he said was unclear. On Thursday, 4,000 of about 6,000 migrants in Border Patrol custody in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley were Venezuelan.
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