Biden is addressing the border changes in a speech today. He will travel to El Paso, Texas, this weekend, his first trip to the southern border as president.
FILE - Mostly Haitian migrants wait to board a bus taking them from a shelter to a US port of entry to start legal paperwork in Reynosa, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, at the border with McAllen, Texas, on May 19, 2022.
The new policy could result in 360,000 people from these four nations lawfully entering the U.S. in a year, a huge number. But currently, far more people from those countries are attempting to cross into the U.S. on foot, by boat or swimming. Migrants from those four countries were stopped 82,286 times in November alone.Title 42 expiration temporarily blocked by Supreme Court
Anyone coming to the U.S. is allowed to claim asylum, regardless of how they crossed the border, and migrants seeking a better life in the U.S. often pay smugglers the equivalent of thousands of dollars to deliver them across the dangerous Darien Gap. But the requirements for granting asylum are narrow, and only about 30% of applications are granted. That has created a system in which migrants come between ports of entry and are allowed into the U.S. to wait out their cases.
"The actions we’re announcing will make things better, but will not fix the border problem completely," Biden said, in asking Congress to pass new legislation. Even with the restrictions, there are still large increases in the number of migrants arriving. Homeland Security officials stopped migrants 2.38 million times during fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the first time the number exceeded 2 million.
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