In a border policy that will be matched with increased use of Title 42 expulsions, President Joe Biden will reveal intentions to welcome up to 30,000 migrants each month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela on Thursday.

According to multiple persons involved with the preparations, the president will announce a new humanitarian “parole” program for migrants from those countries during a speech in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. It will showcase the most recent effort made by his administration to address a migrant surge that is taxing the U.S. immigration system.

The new policy is based on the one that was implemented exclusively for Venezuelans this fall, which opened a small door for up to 24,000 migrants with prior ties to the country and those who could offer financial and other help. The program’s implementation, which deals with nations experiencing political and economic unrest, depends on the utilization of the Title 42 authority to turn away non-recipients at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Border agents will turn away Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans in the same manner that they turned away large numbers of Venezuelans in the past few months using Title 42 authority.

The policy for Venezuelans, which was unveiled in October 2022, expels anyone who attempted to enter the United States illegally through Mexico while requiring migrants to request asylum from their home nation. Humanitarian parole recipients from Venezuela were permitted to fly into the United States. Approximately 21,000 migrants crossed illegally in October, but just 6,200 did so in November, according to the most recent figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The program was unveiled the day after Biden declared that he “intends” to travel to the border for the first time as president before traveling to Mexico City the following week to meet with Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president of Mexico. The border crisis is anticipated to be one of the summit’s main topics.

The president’s speech is likely to draw sharp criticism from those who support immigration reform and legal professionals who oppose any expansion of the Trump administration’s border policy, which has allowed border agents to deport millions of migrants without first considering their claims for asylum on the basis of public health. Officials from the administration have been debating the political ramifications of stepping up Title 42 for days.

The Biden administration’s border problem has gotten worse in recent weeks as officials made preparations for a court decision to abolish Title 42 limits only to have the program temporarily blocked by the Supreme Court. The southern border is currently seeing a record-breaking migratory flood, which is likely to be a critical policy concern throughout Biden’s presidency regardless of the high court’s decision on the Trump administration’s policy, which is scheduled to be decided later this year.

Regarding border issues, Biden is also coming under increasing fire from both Republicans and Democrats. The government may briefly benefit from Thursday’s declaration, but it will also face criticism for continuing to employ a pandemic-era instrument that President Biden has explicitly called for eliminating because the pandemic is over.