Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, criticized the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis on Friday and told ‘Your World’ that a White House delegation did not want to speak to anyone when they visited the region this week.
CUELLAR: Any president should come down [and] really spend time with border communities. You know, the president sent a delegation and a bunch of people out of the White House. They did not speak to anyone, not even to members of Congress below.
We still use title 42 for male adults. For example, in Laredo, Texas, 73% of the people entering are Mexican male adults, and they are all very much back to Mexico. People are therefore returned. Again, what is the law in the United States? Unless they become citizens, which we have 11 or 12 million who have been in the shadows for so many years, they will never be able to vote unless we change and undergo comprehensive immigration reform.
There are about four different categories. Category one, children with family members, mother and father. Category two, they may have a cousin or someone close by. Category three, a distant relative. Category four, they have no family members at all, and that category of children is returned or they want to return voluntarily. It just depends on the different categories. Again, the average number of people who crossed under the Obama administration per year was about 513,000 per year. We had a highlight in 2014. The average number of people under President Trump was about 493,000. So far only 20,000 differ. So the numbers were almost the same under a Democratic or Republican president.
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