U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is developing a sweeping bill that would revamp the country's asylum system to speed up the resolution of claims in large-scale processing centers at the border with Mexico, two U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials told Reuters.
Those with better chances would potentially be housed in apartments or less restrictive settings than a detention center, the two officials said. Migrants deemed less likely to win asylum could be processed and deported quickly.
Espinosa said the administration remains committed to passing an immigration reform bill Biden sent to Congress shortly after taking office in 2021, although that bill has failed to gain traction. The goal of the effort is to open a conversation with Congress to create an asylum system that is "fair, fast and functioning," said another DHS official directly involved in the planning.
"We are still in the very early phases of this and it could be something that people look at and say, 'No, we're not going to do that.'"
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