As Title 42 Ends, Asylum Seekers Face Harsh Border Conditions, New Restrictions & Fast Deportation

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The Trump-era Title 42 policy has come to an end, but the Biden administration has instituted what human rights advocates say amounts to a new asylum ban. We get an update from the San Ysidro border crossing near San Diego, California, where hundreds of asylum seekers have been sleeping on the ground under trash bags and foil blankets, with many reporting they've not eaten in days. Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee's U.S.-Mexico Border Program, says Biden's anti-asylum policies are "reconfiguring the concept of asylum to a point where it no longer offers the promise that it did post-World War II."

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