Internal documents obtained by CBS News indicate that the Biden administration has established a broad restriction on asylum that it intends to use to expedite the deportation of immigrants who enter the country through Mexico after Thursday’s deadline for the Title 42 emergency provision enacted during the pandemic.
The regulation was published on Wednesday, less than 48 hours before the expiration of Title 42, and hundreds of American asylum officials received enforcement training on Tuesday. CBS News reported for the first time on Tuesday about the finalization of the regulation and the instructions sent to the asylum officers who will implement it.
BREAKING: Biden breaks campaign promise, restores Trump immigration policy just one day before Title 42 expires as migrants prepare to storm the southern border.
"The Biden administration has finalized a sweeping restriction on asylum that it plans to use to ramp up swift… pic.twitter.com/YMay9swAmw
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 10, 2023
The rule represents a return to the border policy of the Trump administration and will almost certainly be challenged in federal court. Migrants are ineligible for U.S. protection if they do not register for refugee status in another country, such as Mexico, prior to crossing the southern border.
This trend has become more pronounced in recent years as a result of the record-breaking influx of migrants. These arrivals have encumbered an already overburdened asylum system, inundated border communities, and made Biden an electoral risk as he prepares to run for president in 2024.
In the beginning phases of the epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States issued a public health order to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Due to a corresponding section of US law, this order is also referred to as Title 42, and it authorized officials to promptly deport immigrants at US land borders.
When individuals were apprehended in violation of Title 42, they were either deported to Mexico or their native nations. US Customs and frontier Protection reports that nearly 2.8 million migrants have been turned away at the US-Mexico frontier since the policy’s inception.
On May 11, the pandemic public health restrictions of Title 42, which were implemented during the Trump administration and utilized by officials to prevent migrants from entering the United States from Mexico, will expire.
Biden now goes back against his word in the 2020 debates where he said, “This is the first president in the history of the United States of America that anybody seeking asylum has to do it in another country. That’s never happened before in America.”
Chris Magnus tendered his resignation as commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection a few months ago. Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, pushed him out and he attempted to claim credit for many of the errors made at the southern frontier, according to reports.
“The President has accepted the resignation of Christopher Magnus, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. President Biden appreciates Commissioner Magnus’ nearly forty years of service and the contributions he made to police reform during his tenure as police chief in three U.S. cities. The President thanks Mr. Magnus for his service at CBP and wishes him well,” a statement by Biden’s White House read.
Magnus has posted a number of not-so-subtle digs about the ongoing immigration crisis and has been quick to criticize the Biden administration since joining a group that advocates for police reform.
He recently wrote, “Susan Rice, Kristjen Nielsen,” in reference to an article regarding the forced labor of immigrant children and how the Biden administration “ignored warnings.”
“Over the past two years, more than 250,000 migrant children have come alone to the United States. Thousands of children have ended up in punishing jobs across the country — working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machinery in factories — all in violation of child labor laws, a recent Times investigation showed. After the article’s publication in February, the White House announced policy changes and a crackdown on companies that hire children,” the article stated,” according to the report.
In March, he tweeted similarly about the border crisis.
In response to a Los Angeles Times article describing how President Biden’s administration is proposing a new plan similar to one implemented by the Trump administration, Magnus tweeted, “Sadly-spot on.” The main argument of the article was that illegal border crossers should not be able to readily seek for asylum in the United States.
Sadly—right on point. https://t.co/98KESs01Ri
— Chris Magnus (@CMAGNUS20011) March 2, 2023
Magnus shared a New York Times article from February titled “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.,” which described the “record numbers” of immigrants who entered the country under the Biden administration and how many of them were employed in “dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws.”
Despite generally downplaying the Biden administration’s historic increase in immigration, the New York Times article describes a traumatic experience for many immigrants upon arrival in the United States.
What’s described in this article is sickening. Just sickening.
— Chris Magnus (@CMAGNUS20011) February 25, 2023
“These workers are part of a new economy of exploitation: Migrant children, who have been coming into the United States without their parents in record numbers, are ending up in some of the most punishing jobs in the country, a New York Times investigation found. This shadow work force extends across industries in every state, flouting child labor laws that have been in place for nearly a century. Twelve-year-old roofers in Florida and Tennessee. Underage slaughterhouse workers in Delaware, Mississippi and North Carolina. Children sawing planks of wood on overnight shifts in South Dakota,” the article stated,” according to the story.
The Times did add that this new epidemic began in 2021, Biden’s first year in office.
Since Biden assumed office, illegal aliens attempting to enter the country have wrought devastation on the U.S.-Mexico border, as briefly mentioned in the article.