This Thursday, the standard permitting the immediate deportation of the majority of migrants in the United States will be lifted, leading President Joe Biden to expect the border with Mexico to be a “chaotic situation for a while.”

Biden said this to reporters who asked him if they were prepared for the surge in migrants.

Title 42 allowed for automatic deportation for those who arrived without a visa and the necessary documentation.

What is Title 8 with which the United States now wants to deal with the wave of migrants?

Hours before, he spoke with his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador about the consequences of lifting this rule.

Both presidents must coordinate because once health regulations are lifted, only Title 8 will be used, which allows asylum applications as long as the person can convince that they will be persecuted or tortured if they return to their country, but also allows for expedited deportation. of others.

And some of the displaced will end up in Mexico.

“They discussed the continued close coordination between border authorities and the law’s tough enforcement measures,” ahead of Title 8, the effects of which are “more serious” because it punishes deportees with a five-year entry ban, the House said. White in a statement.