Embarrassed by images of illegal border crossers overwhelming the social safety nets of major Democratic cities — Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C., among others — President Joe Biden is implementing a major change to the nation’s asylum process that his administration claims will help fix the crisis. Unfortunately, Biden’s new asylum officer rule will only make the situation worse.

At first blush, Biden’s new plan sounds like a decent idea. One major reason immigrants have been able to exploit the existing asylum system is that there are not enough judges to handle the cases of all 1.5 million illegal immigrants whom Biden has released into the U.S. interior since he became president.