President Biden
Joe BidenBiden to sign executive order aimed at increasing access to the right to vote. Myanmar army conducts violent checkpoints. Confidence in coronavirus vaccines has grown by the majority and now they say they want more faces a growing dilemma in the southern border, showing few signs of decline: the number of underage minors crossing into the United States has been steadily increasing in recent weeks.
Thousands of migrants crossed the border in Biden’s first six weeks in their office, many of them unaccompanied minors. The influx tested the government’s resources and ability to implement its own strategy quickly, as Republicans sounded the alarm about what they saw as a Biden crisis.
Biden’s administration is rapidly adapting its approach to meeting the need for space and staff, reflecting the seriousness of the situation.
“President Biden has asked senior members of his team to travel to the border region to give him a full briefing on the government’s response to the influx of minor minors and an assessment of additional steps that can be taken to safety and care for these children, ”White House spokesman Vedant Patel said in a statement.
Officials are reportedly working to get the Federal Emergency Management Agency involved, and The Washington Post reported that the government is looking for family care centers in processing facilities to investigate migrant children and their parents more quickly.
These moves come weeks after the government reopened a facility for migrant children in Texas despite Biden’s fiery criticism of the use of similar facilities during the Trump administration.
Experts say the influx of migrants seen in Biden’s first week is not significantly higher than in the past, but warns that the Trump administration’s efforts to enter the country are more difficult, the efforts to challenge to face, can complicate.
“There have been many cases where there have been more people, but the previous government went to great lengths to dissolve the institutions that make up a functioning immigration system,” said Eric Hershberg, director of the Center for Latin American and Latino studies, said. at the American University.
‘What this government needs to do, then, is to quickly process the ability of people arriving at the border to find out how they are housing, while assessing their immigration relief requests … and figuring out how to get them, once they have been epidemiologically cleared, to family members who can care for them while they work through the immigration system, ”he added.
Biden administration officials have discouraged migrants from the Northern Triangle region of Central America from taking the trip to the U.S. border, warning that the journey is dangerous, the United States does not have the ability to process large numbers of people and that the majority of migrants are turned away. away at the border.
Border agents continue to arrest thousands of migrants a day, and even some Democrats have warned that the situation could develop into a full-blown crisis in the coming weeks.
Juan ‘Chuy’ Hinojosa, a Senate from Texas, a Democrat who lives in the border town of McAllen, told The Hill that the influx of migrants is rapidly becoming a crisis and that officials there do not have the necessary means to process the migrants or to test them all for COVID-19.
He said the Biden administration to allow people to stay in the country while they wait for their immigration procedures – a so-called ‘catch-and-release’ practice banned under Trump – encourages migrants to embark on the dangerous journey undertakes, despite pleas from the White House that people stay at home.
“It got worse,” Hinojosa said. “I think, frankly, the Biden administration was not aware of what was happening here on the ground, which you can understand because they are just coming in and trying to keep people informed of what is happening, but I do not know.” do not think they were aware of the fact that many people encounter it. The border patrol is overwhelmed, they throw up their hands because they do not know what to do. ”
The border patrol reported an average of about 3,000 arrests per day in January. Officials have not released the total number of concerns in recent weeks, but Reuters reported that border patrol agents arrested about 4,500 migrants on Wednesday alone. President Trump
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Biden has made the unraveling of Trump’s immigration policy a priority with the acceptance of the office. The new administration halted the construction of the border wall and halted the protections for migrant protection that required migrants to stay in Mexico while they waited for processing, while promising to reunite families separated over the past four years .
“We definitely have a different approach,” the White House press secretary said. Jen Psaki
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Republicans want to increase pressure on Biden to move authoritatively to address the issue.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy
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House Republicans have asked the top Democrat in the House Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on the border crossing.
In a statement released on Friday, Trump downloaded Biden, accusing him of creating the crisis.
‘Our border is now completely out of control thanks to the disastrous leadership of Joe Biden. Our large border patrol and ICE agents have been despised, humiliated and ridiculed by the Biden administration. “A mass intrusion into the country by people who should not be here is happening on an hourly basis and is getting worse by the minute,” Trump said.
At the same time, liberal outrage has erupted over the reopening of housing facilities for underage minors used under Trump.
The Pentagon confirmed Friday that the Biden government may use a military base in Virginia to house minor minors, as facilities along the border reach maximum capacity.
John Amaya, the former deputy chief of staff for immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) under former President Obama, told The Hill that Biden has done admirable work so far in unraveling Trump’s policies.
But he said before adopting a comprehensive immigration bill, Biden would need to convince lawmakers and the public that the border is safe, immigrants are being monitored and that the accession process is considered fair by Americans and migrants.
He said the heads of agencies and land leaders confirmed by the Senate would demand that the White House of Biden be sluggishly established at ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and Health and Human Services.
‘They are doing an excellent job of reviewing everything the last team did and trying to get rid of the Frankenstein monster that Trump created and to put in place a fair and just system that complies with international laws and our own laws – this is a big and wonderful step, ”said Amaya.
“Where they need a little more help, and it’s an internal decision, they need to appoint the Senate-confirmed heads of agencies,” he said. ‘The staff members, officers, agents, they need the Senate to confirm leadership and that is very much lacking. It makes a big difference if you have those leaders in place. ”