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NEW YORK (Dagbladet): The Biden administration has already changed some of Donald Trump’s more restrictive immigration policies. Through various presidential orders, he has tried to humanize politics. Among other things, Biden has been open to allowing minor asylum seekers to remain in the United States while their case is processed.
Now, however, the immigration apparatus on the Mexican border is about to be completely overwhelmed, according to the AP and the Washington Post. The Biden administration refuses to call it a crisis, but almost everyone else does.
Overwhelmed by asylum-seeking children: – Crying hysterically
Registry
There are currently more than 10,000 minor asylum seekers in the custody of Health and Human Services. Another 5,000 are in the custody of Customs and Border Protection. According to the Washington Post, that’s almost double the previous record.
“When you create a system that encourages people to cross the border, and they are released, a message is immediately sent to Central America that if you cross the border, you can stay,” said Democratic Congressman Vicente. González to the newspaper.
The situation has also been aggravated by deteriorating conditions in various parts of Central America, and already towards the end of the Trump presidency, the number of asylum seekers increased.
– I should have been better prepared
Biden himself denies that people go to the US border because he is seen as a nice guy.
– Yes, I can say it quite clearly: do not cross the border. Don’t leave your town, town or community, Biden told ABC News.
However, there are several in the immigration apparatus who believe that the Biden administration should have been better prepared.
– It’s one thing to hear this from politically appointed employees, but career bureaucrats said the same thing. “They should have been better prepared,” Trump’s Acting Secretary of State for Homeland Security (DHS) Chad Wolf told the Washington Post.
Last week, current DHS minister Alejandro Mayorkas also admitted that the United States likely has more people on the southern border than in more than 20 years.
Thousands of detainees
The latest statistics show that Customs and Border Protection agents have arrested nearly 100,000 people so far in March alone. This is the highest number since 2006. March 10 was the busiest day. At that time, more than 6,200 people were arrested.
– What are you waiting for?
– No end in sight as large groups continue to enter the Rio Grande Valley. In 48 hours, agents arrested 369 illegal immigrants, writes Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol Chief Brian Hastings in Twitter earlier this week.
– terrified
On Friday, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Mayorca and two Republican politicians visited the border. Murphy later wrote Twitter about how shocked he was.
– Hundreds of children huddled in large open spaces. In one corner, I struggled to hold back tears as a thirteen-year-old girl cried uncontrollably as she explained through an interpreter how terrified she was after being separated from her grandmother and without her parents, Murphy writes.
The Biden administration decided last weekend to send emergency aid to the area through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). On Thursday, the Biden administration also signed an agreement with Mexico. The United States agreed to send excess doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Mexico. Mexico, for its part, promises to help the United States cope with the border situation.
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Republican attacks
Republicans are also launching strong attacks on Biden over the situation that has arisen.
“So either this is the first time FEMA has been sent to admire a situation that is going well, or the administration is not honest with the American people,” Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said during a Senate debate.
– This crisis is created by the politics of the new administration, says the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, who also visited the Mexican border this week.
However, the Biden administration and other Democrats are defending Biden.
– They had to collect the remains of a system in ruins because of Donald Trump, says former Texas Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro, according to AP.
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