Despite Complaints From Cities, Biden Administration To Increase Number of Asylum-Seekers Allowed Into America
The idea is that expanded legal pathways coupled with more aggressive penalties for those caught crossing illegally will plug holes in the leaky dike that is America’s border with Mexico.

The Department of Homeland Security will this month dramatically increase the already elevated number of immigrants allowed to apply for asylum before reaching the border, and will permit as many as 40,000 of them a month to enter the country to await decisions in their cases.
The asylum-seekers will be allowed to apply via Customs and Border Protection’s news CBP One mobile phone app, which the Biden administration rolled out in January. About 20,000 a month were able to schedule appointments at the border for initial screenings via the app when the program first launched.
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