Title 42 nears end, new law to limit asylum seekers

The pandemic era immigration rule Title 42, which allowed the government to quickly expel immigrants at the border citing health regulations, ends on Thursday. 

New measures from the Biden administration are intended to further restrict asylum seekers from crossing the border.

Under the existing law, people seeking asylum are permitted to do so; but the new policy stipulates that they should be quickly subjected to a higher asylum standard—designed for most people to not to clear.

Those who fail will be deported to their home countries or back to Mexico.

New rules are expected to limit the waves of asylum seekers pressuring the southern border. President Joe Biden is sending 1500 troops to the Mexican border.