Migrants will be denied entry if they don’t apply online or claim asylum in a transit nation.
Since Title 42 limitations were lifted last week, US-Mexico border “encounters” have dropped significantly.
Title 42 permitted U.S. authorities to return migrants to Mexico without allowing them to request asylum. Its purpose was to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus.
The order was issued by then-president Donald Trump and expired on May 11th.
Since the restrictions were lifted, the number of migrant “encounters” has decreased by 70%, according to Homeland Security official Blas Nunez-Neto.
An encounter occurs when US officials encounter non-citizens attempting to illegally cross the border from Mexico into the United States.
Mr. Nunez-Neto said on May 12 that the daily average of illegal US entry had dropped to 4,000.
“In the last 48 hours, there were 3,000 border encounters per day, a decrease of more than 70 percent,” he said on Friday.
He noted that 11,000 people were deported from the US to over 30 countries last week.
This number included the return of over 1,100 Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Cubans to Mexico.
Immigrants entering the United States are subject to new restrictions.
Thousands of migrants entered the United States in the week preceding the regulation’s expiration.
Immigrants are now subject to new entry restrictions.
They will be denied entry if they arrive at the border without applying online or requesting asylum in a country they passed through.
Anyone captured illegally crossing the border will be barred from returning to the United States for five years. If they do so, they will face criminal prosecution.
Human rights organizations have criticized the new rules, claiming that they incorrectly assume migrants’ safety in countries outside the United States and that the online application system has proven ineffective for the overwhelming majority of applicants.
