Cardenas / APĬongress has focused mainly on enforcement, which fails to deal with the fact that the current system of deterrence, designed to stop single adults from Mexico crossing the border illegally, wasn’t built for the wave of asylum-seekers arriving at the border from throughout the world, Cardinal Brown said. Border Patrol wait to be processed near the port of entry in Hidalgo, Texas, on Thursday. Colombian migrants that were trying to evade the U.S. Aspects of such policies often are litigated in courts, making them temporary. What is certain is that politicians will use it as a talking point to cast blame as the transition happens.īut absent any congressional action for decades, immigration policy has largely fallen to the executive branch, leading to inconsistent crisis response policies. There is a collective breath-holding at the moment about what will follow once Title 42 disappears.

It would have just tried to prevent asylum.' 'The past administration wouldn't have done that. 'They are relying a little more on processing or allowing people to apply for some form of asylum or humanitarian parole before people get to the border,' said Theresa Cardinal Brown, a senior adviser for immigration and border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think tank. sponsors and focused on reuniting families, provided humanitarian parole to some fleeing Haiti and Latin America and forged agreements with other countries, including Mexico. The administration also is requiring people to use a computer app to make appointments to request entry. President Joe Biden has been readying for the shift with other tools, including setting up processing centers in Guatemala and Colombia where people can apply for asylum before they come to the southern border. Border Patrol is patted down near the port of entry in Hidalgo, Texas, on Thursday. A person from Colombia who tried to evade U.S. I don’t expect much from them at this point based on what we’ve seen for the last two decades,” said David Bier, the associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. “Congress makes the laws, and they deserve some of the blame here. Meanwhile, little is expected from a divided Congress, beyond legislation focused on enforcement and meant more for what was happening on the border a decade ago. Follow along for live updates on the end of Title 42

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