“What we are seeing today is the consequences of four years of dismantling every system to address it with humanity and compassion,” Escobar said. She cites administrative officers at Health and Human Services and other departments working to reduce the number of days children are. are detained before being moved to licensed facilities reunited with their families.
Biden has reversed a number of Trump-era immigration policies, including the “Stay in Mexico” policy advocating the destruction of the country’s asylum system and the “zero tolerance” policy of separating families at the border.
Critics say Biden, who has taken a more humane approach to migrants than his predecessor, should have strongly discouraged migration from Central American countries. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) Exploded on the Biden administration’s immigration policy on Fox News Sunday, saying: “empirically, [they’re] completely “responsible for the upliftment of minor minors on the southern border.
In his interview with Escobar, Tapper pointed out earlier this month in a remark by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that migrants regard Biden as the “migrating president, and feel so much that they are going to reach the United States.”
“Isn’t there a degree in which messages are sent from the Biden administration, it’s encouraging what’s going on and encouraging these children to come, which creates this tragedy?” Ask Tapper.
“As I mentioned in April of 2020, we still saw people coming to our doorstep under the most severe circumstances, a Trump administration and Covid,” Escobar said. “Even the president of Mexico, who is making these comments, obscures what we need to do, and that is what I believe President Biden will eventually achieve – which are the root causes of migration. We will carry out this conversation year after year until our leaders in this hemisphere has what it takes to work together. ‘
Escobar encouraged López Obrador and other Northern Hemisphere presidents to coordinate on immigration issues.
“It’s a challenge we’ve been seeing for a few years. It will not go away – until we fix it,” Escobar said.