Colleen Long | Associated Press
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The program began in 2022 with Venezuelans as an effort to provide an alternative legal pathway for migrants who were increasingly coming to the U.S.-Mexico border. It later expanded to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans.The program allowed them to live and work in the U.S. for two years while they sought other legal status.
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U.S. officials will begin denying asylum to migrants who show up at the Mexico border without first seeking protection in a country they passed through.
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President Joe Biden has wrapped up a four-hour visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, but he did not appear to meet with migrants during his first trip to the region as president.
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President Joe Biden says the U.S. will immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally. It's his boldest move yet to confront spiraling arrivals of migrants since he took office two years ago.