The Biden administration will pause its signature effort to reform asylum processing at the border, Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed.
The Biden administration will pause its signature effort to reform asylum processing at the border, Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed Wednesday.in 2022, allowed asylum officers to grant and deny asylum to migrants at the southern border.
“It’s tragic to see the administration abandon even minimal progress in favor of recycling Trump policies that are intentional in their cruelty,” said Heidi Altman, policy director at the National Immigrant Justice Center. Altman said the policy had many problems that needed fixing but that it “represented one of the few efforts by this administration to prioritize humanitarian processing.”
But government officials have worried for months that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which oversees asylum officers, could be overwhelmed by a post-Title 42 surge in border crossings. Title 42 is scheduled to expire on May 11.
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