The Biden administration says Trump’s main border rules are about to undergo critical changes

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) An order will be announced this week to amend a public health order prohibiting people from seeking asylum at the US border, US Assistant Attorney Brian Stoltz said on Tuesday.

According to the Associated Press, the expected order will be related to the treatment of immigrant children and may mark the last major change in asylum restrictions enacted during the Trump administration.

Stoltz discussed the order at a court hearing in Fort Worth, Texas. He said that the CDC will issue a “new order on children’s issues” to modify a policy of the Biden administration that allows children who cross the border alone to seek asylum, an exception to the current ban.

Stoltz did not provide more information or explain what changes the order will bring. According to a report by the Associated Press, he said the order would render certain arguments in Texas meaningless, but did not elaborate.

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Stoltz’s comments on the order will apply to children indicate that the Biden administration is considering phasing out the asylum ban.

The high COVID-19 vaccination rate has put increasing pressure on the Biden government to lift the public health order that has been a temporary measure during the pandemic. Although the government exempts unaccompanied children, some families and almost all adults traveling alone have been deported from the United States-usually within two hours to Mexico-without the opportunity to seek asylum.

As the United States faces increasing pressure, lifting the ban may encourage more people to seek asylum at the border. The United Nations Refugee Agency reported last month that the United States has once again become the top destination for asylum seekers in 2020, with about 250,000 new applications, more than double the number of second-placed Germany.

Texas, which has the busiest illegal border crossing, is seeking a court order to force the federal government to stop what the state’s deputy attorney general Aaron Reitz called “de facto non-enforcement” of the asylum ban. Reitz believes that the Biden administration’s posture “threats the health and safety of all Texans.”

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman (Mark Pittman) Donald Trump The appointer asked Stoltz about the timing of the new order and asked the government to notify him immediately after it was issued. Pittman did not rule on the injunction request, but said he will make a decision “as soon as possible.”