The Biden administration will presume that migrants who enter the U.S. unlawfully are not eligible for asylum.
The new rule will allow for the rapid deportation of migrants who fail to notify the U.S. of their plan to seek asylum or who do not request protection from another country while traveling to the U.S.
- The new policy will take effect on May 11, the same day that the Trump-era Title 42 health emergency rule allowing for the swift expulsion of migrants to Mexico will expire.
- The measure, which will be in place for two years, is similar to another Trump-era rule that federal courts struck down.
- Officials said the rule seeks to discourage people who are unlikely to qualify for U.S. asylum from crossing the border.
- Border officials registered more than 2 million encounters with migrants last year, an all-time record.
- Many of those migrants had already been expelled via Title 42 and were attempting to re-enter the U.S.
- Last month, the Biden Administration unveiled a new rule that would allow for the rapid deportation of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
- The number of undocumented migrants from those countries fell by 97% following that announcement.
- The government also introduced a rule to allow some migrants from those countries to apply for sponsored asylum.
