President
Joe Biden
‘s administration will start to deny asylum this week to immigrants who show up at the United States-Mexico border without first applying online after a record number of
immigrants
crossed over the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday.
The president is seeking to crack down on the record numbers of
illegal border crossings
while simultaneously forming new legal pathways, including a plan to open 100 regional migration hubs throughout the Western Hemisphere, according to a press statement.
NEW: Our Fox drone over another enormous group of migrants who crossed illegally into Brownsville yesterday evening. As of yesterday, CBP sources tell us Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector was already running at 140% capacity in its facilities, and T42 hasn’t dropped yet. pic.twitter.com/GME9W5dEbV
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) May 10, 2023
There have been more than 29,000 immigrants in Customs and Border Protection custody, with nearly 18,000 apprehensions in the last 24 hours. In Brownsville, the easternmost border crossing into Mexico, Border Patrol apprehended more than 10,300 immigrants who crossed illegally on Tuesday alone — the highest single-day totals ever recorded,
according
to Fox News.
Biden’s dramatic adjustment to migrant regulations will have a sweeping shift in asylum policy, disqualifying immigrants from U.S. protection if they fail to request refugee status in another country, such as Mexico, on their trek to the southern border.
BORDER PATROL AND ICE SWEEP THROUGH MIGRANT CAMP IN EL PASO AS TITLE 42 CLOCK TICKS DOWN
Immigrants who secure appointments to enter the U.S. under the CBP One smartphone application will not be barred from asylum under the policy. The rule will also not apply to unaccompanied minors.
But immigrants have sent mixed signals about the efficacy of that app. A trio of immigrants outside the Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport told a Washington Examiner reporter Tuesday at around 6 p.m. that the app is a helpful informational resource but there are strict and limited windows of opportunity for processing through the app.
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Immigrants in El Paso and Juarez
told
the Texas Tribune the app regularly crashes as thousands of immigrants seek appointments during a 10-minute window in the morning. That has led to consequences such as immigrants growing impatient and crossing without fulfilling the requirements or even causing family separations in some cases.
CBP has said the agency is working on updates to the app to allow asylum-seekers to request an appointment anytime between 10 a.m. and 9 a.m. the next day.
