The Biden administration announced on Monday it is further toughening asylum-seeking at the southern border as it continues to crack down on unlawful immigration ahead of the presidential elections.
The new rules increase the requisites needed to lift severe restrictions initially imposed in June. The previous ones determined that the U.S. could restrict asylum petitions when the amount of migrants arriving at the border between ports of entry reached 2,500 per day. They could then be lifted when the average dropped to 1,500 per day for a week.
