'Tense calm' at the border as migrant shelters brace for impact of Biden's asylum order
Migrants seeking asylum line up while waiting to be processed after crossing the border near San Diego, California, on June 5. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)
Leaders of Catholic organizations helping migrants at the US-Mexico border are denouncing President Joe Biden’s new asylum restrictions as shelter directors brace for its impact on conditions.
“It’s going to cause a lot of pain and confusion,” said Dylan Corbett, executive director at the Hope Border Institute, which supports migrants in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, on the Mexican side.
Biden’s measures temporarily block the processing of most asylum claims and will remain in place until two weeks after the seven-day average of migrants crossing the border without legal permission drops below 1,500. (The ban is then reinstated if the seven-day average rises above 2,500 migrants.)
