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Border asylum limits ending, but not Biden’s migrant woes

FILE - Migrants, below, walk outside a camp that blocks the entrance to a pedestrian crossing into the United States, above, Nov. 8, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. The encampment, now encircled in chain link fencing after an Oct. 28 operation by local police, is a temporary home for hundreds of migrants hoping to seek asylum in the United States. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

FILE - Migrants rest in a dormitory of the Good Samaritan shelter in Juarez, Mexico, March 29, 2022. The vast majority of people staying at the shelter are women and their children from Mexico and Central America who have been expelled under Title 42 authority or were still waiting to try for asylum, according to Pastor Juan Fierro, the shelter's director. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

FILE - A pair of migrant families from Brazil passes through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum on June 10, 2021. The Biden administration may be ending asylum restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19, but the political and humanitarian challenges for the president may only get worse. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

Border asylum limits ending, but not Biden’s migrant woes