For the past three years, the asylum system in the United States has been severely disrupted. Pandemic-era restrictions allowed immigration officers to quickly expel asylum seekers that arrived at the southern border. Now that those restrictions are over, the US is reverting to immigration law as it existed before the world went into lockdown. But as it does so, the Biden administration is adding new restrictions. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports on what these new policies could mean for asylum seekers.
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