The Biden administration next week will begin its overhauled process for screening migrants seeking humanitarian protection along the U.S. border.
Biden’s new policy will give asylum officers working for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services the authority to grant U.S. humanitarian protection but not to deny it — a point the president’s opponents have assailed. Applicants who are rejected during screening by an asylum officer will have their cases reviewed by an immigration judge and will retain the right of appeal.
U.S. authorities have made record numbers of immigration arrests along the Mexico border since Biden took office, including more than 234,000 detentions last month. About half of those taken into custody are quickly “expelled” from the United States under the Title 42 restrictions, implemented in March 2020 to curb the spread of theU.S. District Judge Robert R.
Biden officials were preparing for an even larger migration influx after the restrictions were lifted, so the ruling eased the risk of another crisis similar to last year’s mass crossing of Haitian migrants that overwhelmed authorities in Del Rio, Tex. But the decision has left Biden officials locked into a policy they say has driven up the rate of repeated illegal crossings.
“It’s a gift if they want to use it as way to build a new border management system as quickly as possible,” he said. “But it’s a curse if they use it as excuse to not do anything different.”
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