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President Biden is restoring resources and staffing for the refugee program, which was gutted during the Trump administration.

Security-camera footage obtained by The Times shows that Brazil’s former president spent two nights at the Hungarian Embassy in an apparent bid for asylum.

The goal of the program is to keep people from skipping out on their asylum hearings, joining the millions of undocumented people who stay in the country indefinitely.

Seeking asylum has become the surest way for migrants to stay in the U.S. The underfunded immigration system can’t keep up, so cases languish for years.

The visit by the speaker and scores of House Republicans came as the G.O.P. seeks to increase pressure on President Biden and Democrats to agree to severe new border policies.

Migrants, sent mostly from Texas, arrived at train stops outside New York City over the weekend to sidestep a new order limiting how they arrive.