Biden Adds Legal Pathways, Penalties as Border Rule Ends (1)

The Biden administration will expand legal pathways for immigrants to the US, stiffen border enforcement, and open regional processing centers in Latin America to try to dissuade US-Mexico border crossings.

Senior administration officials outlined the approach Thursday, two weeks ahead of the planned expiration of the pandemic-era border restriction Title 42. Parts of the plan are likely to draw legal challenges and criticism from both border hawks and immigrants’ rights advocates.

The State Department and Department of Homeland Security strategy is the administration’s latest attempt to manage historic levels of migration in the region and many record-breaking months of migrant ...