Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said it is 'too early' to know whether the surge in migrants at the US southern border has peaked since the expiration of Title 42 last week.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that it is “too early” to know whether the surge in migrants at the US southern border has peaked since the expiration of Title 42 last week. “The numbers we have experienced over the past few days are markedly down over what they were prior to the end of Title 42,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.
The rule, proposed earlier this year, presumes that migrants are ineligible for asylum in the US if they didn’t first seek refuge in a country they transited through, like Mexico, on the way to the border. Migrants who secure an appointment through the CBP One app would be exempt, according to officials. Mayorkas framed the tightening of asylum rules as a way to “cut out” smugglers who profit off human tragedy, saying that it’s “not only a security imperative, but a humanitarian responsibility.
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