--- title: White House Urges Migrants Not to Cross As Title 42 Ends description: Border Patrol agents are already encountering more than 10,000 people per day trying to cross the Southern Border, according to DHS Secretary Mayorkas. canonical: https://time.com/6279244/white-house-title-42-ends-rules-crossing/ author: Brian Bennett article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-05-11T20:10:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T12:42:47.003Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House Urges Migrants Not to Cross the Border Ahead of Title 42's End og:description: "I want to be very clear: our borders are not open." og:url: https://time.com/6279244/white-house-title-42-ends-rules-crossing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85efdab5d5317594/698a3cccd075338732e6e019/GettyImages-1489223639.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: White House Media Briefing Held By Press Secretary Jean-Pierre And Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House Urges Migrants Not to Cross the Border Ahead of Title 42's End twitter:description: "I want to be very clear: our borders are not open." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85efdab5d5317594/698a3cccd075338732e6e019/GettyImages-1489223639.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # White House Urges Migrants Not to Cross the Border Ahead of Title 42's End > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/)  ## Brian Bennett Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME. May 11, 2023 8:10 PM UTC  Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during the daily news briefing at the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on May 11, 2023 in Washington, DC. Mayorkas took questions from reporters about the expiration Title 42. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during the daily news briefing at the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on May 11, 2023 in Washington, DC. Mayorkas took questions from reporters about the expiration Title 42. Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images  by [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/)  ## Brian Bennett Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME. May 11, 2023 8:10 PM UTC Border Patrol agents are already encountering more than 10,000 people per day [trying to cross the Southern Border](https://time.com/6278600/photos-migrants-border-title-42/) as the Title 42 pandemic-era border policies expire, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday. But the Biden Administration has a message: the new rules will be tougher, not easier. “I want to be very clear: our borders are not open,” Mayorkas said in a press briefing at the White House. Biden Administration officials want migrants to know that new asylum restrictions going into effect at midnight on Thursday come with harsher penalties for trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry and a higher likelihood a person will be denied entry to the U.S. Migrants who arrive at the Southern border without permission on Friday will be banned from coming to the U.S. for at least five years and could possibly be charged with a crime for trying to enter more than once. Under Title 42, a health emergency policy started during the Trump Administration under which the government could expel migrants without giving them a chance to file asylum claims**,** most were expelled without consequences and were able to try multiple times to reenter the U.S., dramatically increasing the number of encounters with Border Patrol agents. Mayorkas described the change in policy as “swift and immediate.” But smugglers, looking to make more money, have told migrants that the end of the pandemic health emergency will make it easier to enter. That is not the case, Mayorkas said. “Smugglers care only about profits, not people. Do not risk your life and your life savings only to be removed from the United States if and when you arrive,” he said. **Read More:** [_Migrant Aid Groups on the Border Are Stretched Thin as Title 42 Expires_](https://time.com/6279180/title-42-migrant-aid-border/) To address the [expected increase](https://time.com/6278656/biden-title-42-migration-border-crisis/) in people trying to cross, the Biden Administration has increased the number of Border Patrol and customs officers on duty at the border, [deployed thousands of troops](https://time.com/6276438/biden-troops-border-title42/) to provide support, and sent more than 1,000 asylum officers and judges on temporary duty to the Southwest border to work on quickly evaluating claims for protection. Under the new asylum rules that go into effect Friday, if a person did not seek asylum in the country they moved through to get to the U.S. or didn’t use the online CBP One phone app, any claim they make for asylum in the U.S. will likely be rejected. Those changes will likely be [challenged](https://time.com/6278812/border-title-42-aclu-lawsuit-asylum/) in court. In recent months, the Biden Administration has allowed people fleeing Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua to apply for entry to the U.S. before coming, because of ongoing crises in those countries. Those changes have reduced by 90% the number of people from those countries trying to cross the border between ports of entry, Mayorkas said. As of Friday, people from those four countries who do not use available pathways to request entry to the U.S. will be ineligible for asylum. In addition to trying to convince migrants not to hire smugglers to come to the U.S., the Biden Administration says it is stepping up criminal investigations into international smuggling rings. “We are going after the smugglers” who “mislead and profit from vulnerable migrants,” Mayorkas said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6279244/white-house-title-42-ends-rules-crossing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6279244/white-house-title-42-ends-rules-crossing/"},"headline":"White House Urges Migrants Not to Cross the Border Ahead of Title 42's End","datePublished":"2023-05-11T20:10:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T12:42:47.003Z","description":"Biden Administration officials want migrants to know that new asylum restrictions going into effect at midnight on Thursday come with harsher penalties.","url":"https://time.com/6279244/white-house-title-42-ends-rules-crossing/","keywords":["Immigration","News","uspoliticspolicy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85efdab5d5317594/698a3cccd075338732e6e019/GettyImages-1489223639.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Brian Bennett","jobTitle":"Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85efdab5d5317594/698a3cccd075338732e6e019/GettyImages-1489223639.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"White House Media Briefing Held By Press Secretary Jean-Pierre And Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas","caption":"White House Media Briefing Held By Press Secretary Jean-Pierre And Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas","creditText":"Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/immigration/","name":"Immigration"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6279244/white-house-title-42-ends-rules-crossing/","name":"White House Urges Migrants Not to Cross the Border Ahead of Title 42's End"}}]}] ```