The Biden administration is implementing a Trump-era expedited asylum screening process ahead of the end of Title 42. A limited experiment will begin next week that will provide asylum seekers access to legal counsel and screening while in custody.

The irony is that Joe Biden did his best to halt all policies and agreements made by the previous administration on his very first day in office. Biden wanted to prove he is the not-Trump president. Instead of proving what a humanitarian he is, as he thought he was doing, it proved the rest of the world would rush to cross the border, legally or not. When a candidate runs on open borders and promises to end deportations and assures asylum for anyone seeking it, people will listen. The world listened and watched as our southern border devolved further and further into chaos and lawlessness.

A country without sovereign borders is not a country. Joe Biden doesn’t care. Now he has to quietly begin putting back into place the policies he so quickly ended. It’s karma. He knew better, probably, he just wanted to show what a good person he is. I don’t think the residents of border communities think Joe Biden is a good person (president) who would protect their communities and close the border. Instead, drugs are pouring over the border and human smuggling is running rampant. It boggles the mind that more than 5 million people have illegally crossed the southern border since Biden came into office and he hasn’t even visited the Rio Grande Valley, ground zero for illegal immigration.

The number of illegal immigrants is expected to explode when Title 42 expires in May. Those working on the ground in law enforcement, like Border Patrol or local police officers, are overwhelmed. They are working in impossible conditions. Ready or not, Title 42 goes away on May 11. This new policy, though on a limited basis, is meant to help ease the burden expected to come when Title 42 ends.

As mentioned above, the new policy isn’t really new. It’s one that Trump used and Biden’s DHS is tweaking it.

Homeland Security officials said they will begin working with a legal services provider they declined to name that will represent asylum-seekers at initial screenings, known as “credible fear hearings.” Access to legal representation will be critical to the plan moving ahead, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that have not been publicly announced.

The screening interviews will be conducted in large U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facilities stocked with phone lines that will be used for the hearings, officials said. CBP policy limits detention to 72 hours, which will be the target to complete the screenings.

President Donald Trump introduced expedited screening while in CBP custody but his successor, Joe Biden, scrapped it during his first week in office. Biden administration officials say the new attempt differs by ensuring access to legal counsel and requiring that screenings be done by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officers, not Border Patrol agents, as happened under Trump.

This kind of move by DHS so near to Title 42 ending only goes to prove that Biden was wrong to quickly undo all that had been done to secure the southern border by the previous administration. Now the old policies are being put back in place and Biden’s DHS is trying to take credit for it. At this point, it doesn’t matter who gets credit (everyone already knows Trump got the border under control and Biden botched it) but that something is done to protect American border communities and the homeland from the humanitarian and national security crisis brought on by Joe Biden. The blame rests solely with him.

The screening process is bogged down by an overload of illegal immigrants.

Currently, it takes about four weeks to conduct a screening interview and, if someone fails to meet the criteria, another four to five weeks for air transportation back to their countries, officials said. The new tack aims to shorten that time to less than 72 hours, the maximum allowed to hold someone in a CBP facility under agency policy.

“This Administration will continue to look at every tool available to make asylum processing more efficient, while upholding due process and other protections, as Congress refuses to act to fix our decades-old broken immigration system,” Homeland Security said in a statement.

Biden’s border crisis is a mess, a dangerous mess. Nothing will change as long as Joe Biden is in the White House. He doesn’t want change on the border. This is all intentional. During an election year, though, DHS will go through the motions to make a change here and there to make it look like they are doing something. No one is fooled, certainly not residents in border communities.