In President Joe Biden’s latest effort to rescind Trump-era immigration policies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will no longer limit the number of illegal immigrants who can apply for asylum at land ports of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Department of Homeland Security announced the policy change Monday.
Under former President Donald Trump’s administration, the number of migrants who could apply for asylum in the U.S. was capped under a practice known as “metering.” Anyone who applied for asylum after CBP had reached its capacity to process and detain asylum-seekers at department facilities was turned away, though they could apply again another day.
