Biden’s Asylum Restrictions Are Working as Predicted, and as Warned

By Hamed Aleaziz Reporting from Washington In the months since President Biden imposed sweeping restrictions on asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, the policy appears to be working exactly as he hoped ... Read More

Biden’s Asylum Restrictions Were Meant to Be Temporary. That Could Change.

The Biden administration is considering actions that would make the tough restrictions the president ordered in June almost impossible to lift. Read More

Biden administration weighs making it harder to end asylum crackdown

The Biden administration is debating changes that would make it harder to lift the sweeping asylum restrictions it enacted in June, two officials tell CBS News. Read More

Biden’s asylum restrictions resulting in more family deportations, humanitarian groups say

Humanitarian groups say dozens of migrants are being deported near the Nogales border port of entry, a majority of them women and children. Read More

Biden WH Considers Making Temporary Asylum Rule Changes More Permanent

The Biden administration is reportedly considering making temporary changes to asylum rules issued earlier this summer harder to undo by increasing threshold numbers needed to end the rules to likely ... Read More

Biden officials weigh tougher asylum ban at Mexico border

Biden administration officials are weighing whether to toughen an asylum ban to maintain lower levels of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border since the ban went into effect in June, a U.S. Read More

Biden says he felt pressure from Democrats to drop out before he ended his reelection bid

"He means what he says. We don't take him seriously ... And democracy is the key," Biden said. Rachel Barber is a 2024 election fellow at USA TODAY, focusing on politics and education. Read More

Border arrests drop 33% to a 46-month low in July after asylum restrictions take hold

FILE - A vehicle drives along the U.S. side of the US-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Ariz. on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool) (Jae C. Hong ... Read More

Pelosi on Biden’s Political Operation: ‘Never Been That Impressed’

“We couldn’t see it go down the drain, because Trump was going to be president and then he was going to take the ... in political history — made her views on Biden’s campaign abundantly ... Read More

Border arrests drop 33% to a 46-month low in July after asylum restrictions take hold

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plummeted 33% in July to the lowest level since September 2020, a result of asylum ... throughout Joe Biden’s presidency. Read More