Some of the harshest criticisms of the Biden administration are coming from Democrat congressmen from the border in Texas – a region where Trump made electoral gains with Hispanic Americans in November 2020. Now, in an unprecedented move, Border Patrol has released some 2,000 migrants without a court date – an indication of how overwhelmed they are.
But that date can be many, many years later, and most applicants fail to turn up. Typically, when migrants are released into the country, they are required to appear before a tribunal at a later date. Some 87 per cent of migrant families that crossed the Mexico-US border in March were allowed into the US, according to Axios. Now Biden seems to have returned to the Obama-era approach of ‘catch and release’. Under this agreement, asylum seekers waited in Mexico while their cases were heard by US courts. But that’s not what was happening – under Trump, Central American minors were flown to their home countries, and reunited with parents or social services.īiden also tore up the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the ‘remain in Mexico’ policy.
Biden’s head of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, justified overturning the Trump policy on the grounds that he would ‘not expel into the Mexican desert’. But the Biden administration exempted unaccompanied children from that order, which led directly to the spike in mothers sending their kids north.
Trump, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, issued a Covid-related emergency order (Title 42) that called for the expulsion of all migrants from Central America. From day one in the White House, Biden introduced specific policies that have dismantled key features of the Trump immigration regime – but with no replacement. It’s not just Biden’s rhetoric that has signalled that US borders, post-Trump, were now open again. And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so.’
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‘The main thing was the violence in my country and the second thing was Joe Biden.’ As Mexico’s president, Andrés Manual Lopéz Obrador, said, ‘Expectations were created that with the government of President Biden there would be better treatment of migrants. ABC reporter Martha Raddatz asked a migrant from Brazil: ‘So, did you come here because Joe Biden was elected president?’ ‘Basically’, the man replied. ‘We’re a nation that says, “If you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come”.’ Latin Americans heard him, and many have come, some even sporting Biden t-shirts. ‘I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border, all those people are seeking asylum’, he said in a debate. Campaigning for president in September 2019, Biden said he would welcome a surge. This is a mess that Biden himself has made.
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