Daily nation news headline7/5/2023 ![]() Mayorkas issued a warning Thursday as Title 42 was expiring that “people who arrive at the border without using a lawful pathway will be presumed ineligible for asylum.”Īdvocates for immigrants said the new limits on asylum were unlawful, and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a legal challenge to the policy late Thursday, seeking to block it. The administration said it would comply with the ruling and was considering its next steps. The measure, officials said, was necessary given the number of people crossing the border and concerns about overcrowding. Government officials lamented a Thursday ruling from a federal judge in Florida that blocked the Biden administration from releasing migrants in custody without court notices. Customs and Border Protection custody dropped to under 25,000, according to internal data obtained by The Times, after hovering above 28,000 earlier in the week. On Thursday, the number of migrants in U.S. Biden administration officials stressed this week that they had prepared for the moment by instituting a limit on asylum for those who cross without authorization and by significantly increasing resources sent to the border, among other actions. The lifting of Title 42 was long anticipated but had been previously blocked by court rulings. officials said that while the number of border encounters was still high, they had not experienced an influx of people overnight or any significant increase in migration. as confusion over the imminent policy changes and their impact persisted. ![]() In the hours leading up to the termination of Title 42, which was used by the Trump administration amid the COVID-19 pandemic to turn away asylum seekers, migrants continued to gather near ports of entry, hoping for a new opportunity to enter the U.S. officials reported that they had not seen the massive increase in migrant crossings that some were predicting and anxiously awaiting. Contentious immigration policy Title 42 expired late Thursday night at the southern border with Mexico, but by Friday morning, U.S. ![]()
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