LOS ANGELES — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday that restricts asylum eligibility and states that noncitizens who enter across the southern border without a proper appointment will be ineligible for asylum. 

The order also raises the standard used to screen for protection claims. These orders go into effect once a daily cap of 2,500 people applying for asylum over a seven-day period is reached. 

Since that threshold has already been met, the shutdown goes into effect immediately. There are certain exceptions for children and victims of human trafficking.

The order is a concern for many immigrant right advocacy groups who say this is a regressive policy that will impact the ability of those fleeing persecution and dire situations in their homeland to find refuge in the United States. 

The legal framework is the same used by former President Donald Trump under the so-called “Muslim ban” back in 2018. The ACLU has already announced they will be challenging the order in court. 

This does not impact those who already have an open asylum case and are residing in the U.S. through that process.