The Trump administration’s new asylum rule will limit the ability of Central Americans to claim asylum at the southwest border. If implemented, it might ease overcrowding at border detention facilities in the near term. But the rule, announced Monday, is at best a stopgap measure, not a permanent solution.

The border crisis will never end until we overhaul our outdated and ineffective asylum system from top to bottom. Just as no amount of border security, immigration enforcement, or outsourcing to Mexico will dissuade Central Americans from traveling north, neither will mere administrative changes to asylum regulations remove the incentives created by an immigration case backlog of nearly 1 million and wait times that extend for years.