‘The border is closed’: US deters adults but allows processing for child migrants

Homeland security secretary urges people to wait before approaching the border to give the US time to rebuild the system'

Joe Biden's homeland security secretary said on Tuesday that even as the US processes a growing number of unaccompanied child migrants at the US-Mexico border, the country remains closed to most asylum seekers.

Now is not the time to come to the border," Alejandro Mayorkas said.