A new rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security presumes that migrants are ineligible for asylum unless they follow lawful pathways into the United States.

“People who arrive at the border without using a lawful pathway will be presumed ineligible for asylum,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a video posted on Twitter on May 11.

Days later, Mayorkas clarified during the Sunday television news cycle.

“It’s not an asylum ban. But they have a higher threshold of proof that they have to meet. That is a presumption of eligibility that can be overcome. It is not a ban,” Mayokas said on ABC’s This Week.

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