The Biden administration has just announced a new policy that could disqualify most migrants from being able to seek asylum at the southern U.S. border

The Biden administration has just announced a new policy that could disqualify most migrants from being able to seek asylum at the southern U.S. border, per NYT.

The regulations, which will not take effect until after the government responds to comments from the public, would render migrants ineligible for U.S. asylum if they cross the southern border illegally after failing to ask for humanitarian refuge in another country, such as Mexico.

The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security will give the public 30 days to comment on the proposed regulations before implementing them.

"In the absence of such a measure," officials wrote in the regulation, "the number of migrants expected to travel without authorization to the United States is expected to increase significantly, to a level that risks undermining the Departments' continued ability to safely, effectively, and humanely enforce and administer U.S. immigration law, including the asylum system, in the face of exceptionally challenging circumstances."