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On June 3, 2024, the President signed a Proclamation under sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, finding that the entry into the United States of certain noncitizens during emergency border circumstances would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and suspending and limiting the entry of those noncitizens across the southern border.  The Proclamation directed DHS and DOJ (the Departments”) to promptly consider issuing regulations addressing the circumstances at the southern border, including any warranted limitations and conditions on asylum eligibility.  The Departments issued this interim final rule in response to the Proclamation.  Under the IFR, certain persons who enter across the southern border while encounters are above thresholds described in the Proclamation will be ineligible for asylum unless they demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that exceptionally compelling circumstances exist, and will be subject to certain revised processing standards and procedures applicable to the expedited removal process.