Border Crisis Looms as COVID-19 Restrictions End and New Rules Begin

The Biden administration will begin denying asylum to migrants who arrive at the US-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through. Asylum seekers have been showing up at the border in huge numbers in anticipation of this week's end of the use of a restriction known as Title 42. Families who cross the border will face curfews and monitoring; the head of household will wear an ankle bracelet as their cases are heard within 30 days. The US plans to open 100 regional migration hubs across the Western Hemisphere and granting humanitarian parole to 30,000 people a month to enter the country from four countries.