Last week, the federal COVID-19 public health declaration officially ended. With that, a pandemic-era immigration order called Title 42 also expired. Title 42 allowed the Trump and Biden administrations to close the U.S. borders to migrants due to the pandemic.
Immigration expert Stephen Yale-Loehr says it's an attempt to control the surge in migration at the border. Yale-Loehr says he could see this rule working in the long run, but for now, he says the CBP One Mobile App can only accept up to 1,000 appointments per day, and he thinks it will take time for new refugee processing centers to be put up.