A look at US immigration policies and how they're changing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The new rules come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly expel migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border for the last three years.
50% : Under U.S. and international law, anyone who comes to the U.S. can ask for asylum.
49% : Republicans sued, arguing that the restrictions were necessary border security.
47% : People from from all over the world come to the U.S-Mexico border to seek asylum in the U.S.
46% : The U.S. is putting new restrictions into place at its southern border to try to to stop migrants from crossing illegally and encourage them instead to apply for asylum online through a new process.
45% : Under Title 42, migrants were returned back over the border and denied the right to seek asylum.
43% : Before that, migrants could cross illegally, ask for asylum and be allowed into the U.S..
38% : They can face criminal prosecution if they do.
34% : The Biden administration is now turning away anyone seeking asylum who didn't first seek protection in a country they traveled through, or first applied online.

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