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On Friday morning, the Biden administration plans to offer some migrants the chance to voluntarily return to Mexico.

DHS officials plan to inform some asylum seekers from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti who have been arrested by border guard agents that they can choose another route to the US

I want to let you know about a process currently in effect for individuals in your situation reads a script for asylum seekers encountering these migrants. The script, which is included in US Citizenship and Immigration Services training materials, was obtained by The Times. Before we begin the interview, I’ll give you the chance to choose to follow this process if you’d like to do so.

The officers are instructed to inform the migrants that if they accept voluntary return, they can apply for legal entry into the US if they have a financial sponsor and can pass security checks. The migrants, whom the US can return to Mexico under an agreement struck between the two countries last week, will be told to be outside

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the US is eligible for that process.

We are giving…individuals in our custody the opportunity to voluntarily return to the country they came from due to the consequence of a removal, said DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

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conference Wednesday, referring to the plan.

The voluntary return script is part of the Biden administration’s expanded efforts to deal with what is expected to be an increase in migration at the southern border following the expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era policy that would force border agents in enabled migrants to be returned quickly this week. Republicans and others, including Independent Senator Krysten Sinema

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and officials in border towns, have urged the administration to limit

the numbers

“While it’s great that the government is announcing things like a deployment of 1,500 troops and these new processing centers that won’t be up and running by Friday, those are good things,” Sinema said last week, according to CBS News. “They are ambitious. That is not the same as operational. And so what I ask and have been asking for two years is that the administration makes concrete plans.”

The government has said it will send troops to help at the border, along with the asylum officers and judges needed to process migrants and quickly deport those who have no right to remain in the US.

Another part of the administrative effort to deter migrants from crossing the border without permission will also take effect this week.

Starting later this week, the US will introduce a controversial new policy that restricts asylum

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migrants who cross a third country, such as Mexico, on their way to the US and have not applied for protection there. While there are exceptions, migrants who cross the border without permission are likely to find it difficult to get asylum under the new policy. Immigrant advocates such as the ACLU are expected to file suit soon after implementation.

To avoid denial and expulsion, the migrants from the four countries are offered a way out under the voluntary return plan.

You can choose to voluntarily leave the United States once and still be eligible for parole. You will now have the chance to withdraw your application for admission to the United States and return to Mexico so that you remain eligible for that parole process, agents will tell migrants according to the script.

The migrant will then be warned that if he fails his first asylum screening, this is known as a credible fear of interviewing him

could be liable

be deported and not deported from the country

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years.

Do you wish to voluntarily withdraw your application for admission at this time so that you can return to Mexico and continue to be eligible for access to the parole I just described? officers will ask.

The Department of Homeland Security has said migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela who have verified US sponsors will continue to be allowed to enter the country legally. Since January, up to 30,000 people per month can leave those countries

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applying to live and work in the US The application process for the US began earlier this year as the Biden administration expanded the use of Title 42 to allow migrants from the four countries to be deported to Mexico. Since then, thousands have successfully entered the US via the new pathway.

The migrants, who can apply anywhere, must pass rigorous background checks and have a sponsor willing to support them financially during the two-year period they are allowed in the US.

If a migrant rejects voluntary removal, they may be offered another chance to leave later in the process.

Migrants who do not qualify for asylum under the new Biden rule will be told they will not be screened for asylum, but

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another form of protection that is harder to get.

Before I go any further, I would like to offer you one more chance to withdraw your admission application, as I offered you at the beginning of the interview, agents will tell those migrants. Do you want me to repeat the explanation of that offer?