WASHINGTON ( AP ) — , The Biden administration  , is preparing more changes to the nation’s asylum system meant to speed up processing and potential removal of migrants who continue to arrive at the southern border, an interim step as President Joe Biden , continues to mull a broader executive order , to crack down on border crossings that may come later this year.
According to four people with knowledge of the plan, the change being considered may help some , migrants , who are currently arriving at the boundary to be processed first through the prison system rather than going the back of the line. Before the decision is final, the people were given the right to discuss an administrative scheme.
The news, expected to come from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, may occur as early as Thursday, although the citizens cautioned that it could be delayed. With this change, the administration’s overall objective is to process new arrivals more quickly, within six months than the lengthy wait needed to complete the asylum system’s existing backlog.
People who cross between ports of entry and move themselves in to , immigration officials may be subject to the new regulations.
The Biden administration is enforcing more stringent laws to deter visitors to the U.S.-Mexico borders. When a immigrant arrives, especially a home, they are almost always released into the nation where they are awaiting their prison court dates, a process that can take years. It might be possible for others to stop trying to make the journey by processing workers who have just arrived immediately.
The emigration court in the country is currently being clogged by a report 3 million cases.  , The average caseload for a judge is 5, 000 and these changes , wo n’t help diminish their workload. There are approximately 600 magistrates.
The administration has tried for years , to walk more new visitors to the front of the series for asylum , choices, hoping to arrest those whose claims are denied within weeks instead of years. The administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump made efforts to ratchet up the process, going back to 2014. A plan was put forth by the Biden administration in 2022 to allow asylum officers to decide a select few family claims in nine cities rather than immigration judges.
The National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, a union that represents asylum officers, spokesman Michael Knowles, stated in a February interview that the 2022 plan was” a very important program that received very little support.”
In 45 cities last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched an effort to expedite initial family asylum screenings and deport those who fail within a month. ICE has not made any information available about how many families underwent the expedited screenings and how many families were deported.
100 new immigration judges and aides were funded by a bipartisan border agreement that three senators had drafted and supported earlier this year. However, that legislation was never passed after Trump, the likely Republican nominee for president, urged other Republicans to end the deal.
Despite this, immigrants ‘ advocates have generally expressed concern about changes that would expedite immigration, which is frequently a painful journey north, to the U.S. border.
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Elliot Spagat, a writer for the Associated Press in San Diego, contributed to this article.
