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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Hamed Aleaziz

Analysis: Biden's new asylum proposal could affect the border forever

U.S. immigration politics have shifted on their axis over the last 10 days.

Former President Donald Trump and his administration spent years arguing that people who cross the border without permission should not be able to easily apply for asylum in the United States. That decades-old practice no longer works, Trump and his team insisted.

On Feb. 21, President Joe Biden proposed a plan that amounts to an endorsement of his predecessor’s position.

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