NEW: The Biden administration is setting up migrant processing centers in Latin America to screen migrants to see if they are eligible for refugee/parole/employment programs.
Officials hope to reduce the surge at the border once Title 42 ends on May 11
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The processing centers will be run by "international organization partners"
DHS is also expanding eligibility for the family reunification parole program to cover Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Honduras.
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Meanwhile, the administration says it is expanding the use of expedited removal at the border, along with penalties including entry bars and criminal prosecution.
That is combined with the asylum ineligibility rule set to go into effect soon.
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The hope is that the combination of stiffer penalties at the border, while expanding both legal pathways and access to those pathways, will promote an "orderly" migration system.
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Mayorkas: "Notwithstanding those preparations, we do expect that encounters at or southern border will increase as smugglers are seeking to take advantage of this change [end of Title 42] and already hard at work spreading misinformation that the border will be open after that."
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