The Biden administration proposed a change to the US asylum system today that would expedite the removal of certain migrants.

The regulation under consideration would apply to migrants with criminal histories or deemed as national security risks who would be

unlikely to receive asylum.

Following all of this is our White House correspondent Laura Perron Lopez.

Laura you spoke with some Homeland Security Department officials earlier today who briefed you on this change. What did they share with you about the plan?

So a senior DHS official essentially said that this change allows asylum officers to take into

consideration if they think that a migrant may be a threat to public safety, a

threat to national security, at an earlier stage of that asylum process

than is previously allowed under the law. Currently under the law asylum

currently in the asylum process.

Those potential threats are taken into consideration

when they're deciding,

when the government is deciding

whether or not a migrant can be granted asylum.

But it's typically when they're in court facing a judge have a

lawyer by their side this makes it so that would be possible during the credible

fear interview stage which happens within the first one to two days of a migrant

arriving so that's the big change here on the is to the timeline so do any of the

measures or proposals announced today do they have any impact on the southern border right now?

So that proposed rule won't have an immediate impact because it's a proposal.

And so of course it has to go through the process that all regulations have to go through. But the DHS

official who spoke to reporters today said that the administration believes

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