Biden comes under pressure over expected easing of US asylum rules

U.S. lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, pressed President Joe Biden to take action to manage an expected wave of asylum seekers at America’s southern border when COVID-era restrictions are set to end this week. | Reuters

“It’s a very dire situation,” U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas, a Republican, told CBS’s “Face the Nation”.

U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat who also represents Texas, urged Biden to enact a policy requiring people to only request asylum at official border crossing points.Republicans made calls for tighter immigration policies a key message in their 2022 midterm election campaigns. One of the loudest Republican voices for tighter border policy, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas, on Sunday told ABC news the end of Title 42 would bring “total chaos.”While Gonzales, the Republican lawmaker, said America was poised to receive a “hurricane of migrants,” the Biden administration has pushed back at arguments that ending Title 42 amounted to an opening of U.S. borders to illegal immigrants.

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