On June 4, 2024, the Biden Administration issued a Presidential Proclamation with immediate implementation on the border, putting historically restrictive measures in place that will bar access to asylum for most people who enter the United States between ports of entry at the southern border. The new policy will bar access to asylum for most people arriving between ports of entry when the number of apprehensions reaches a certain level. It imposes additional uncertainties and obstacles to asylum building upon existing restrictive policies already in place. Border officials will no longer ask arriving migrants if they are afraid to return to their country, meaning many people will be quickly deported despite their fear. Those who are determined to have expressed a fear will face newly heightened standards to access these limited protections which are far short of asylum, and do not provide a pathway to lawful residence or the ability to reunify with family members. Biden administration is claiming as its legal basis for this new rule section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the same provision used by former President Trump to enact the Muslim and African Bans and an asylum ban quite similar to this one that was found unlawful by federal courts. For your weekly immigration news from GreenCardGuys, click to follow our channel.