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Joe BidenBiden will sign an executive order with the aim of increasing access to Myanmar’s military votes carrying out violent nighttime attacks. is facing a growing dilemma on the southern border, which shows little sign of abating: the number of unaccompanied minors entering the United States has been steadily increasing in recent weeks.
Thousands of migrants crossed the border in Biden’s first six weeks in office, many of them unaccompanied minors. The influx tested the government’s resources and ability to quickly implement its own strategy, as Republicans sound alarms about what they see as a crisis created by Biden.
The Biden government is rapidly adapting its approach to meet the need for space and personnel in a reflection of the gravity of the situation.
“President Biden asked senior members of his team to travel to the border region in order to provide him with a full briefing on the government’s response to the influx of unaccompanied minors and an assessment of the additional measures that can be taken to ensure the safety and care of these children, ”White House spokesman Vedant Patel said in a statement.
Authorities are reportedly working to involve the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and The Washington Post reported that the government is trying to convert detention centers for families into processing facilities to more quickly examine migrant children and their parents.
These measures came just weeks after the government reopened an establishment for migrant children in Texas, despite Biden’s fervent criticism of the use of similar facilities during the Trump administration.
Experts said the influx of migrants seen in Biden’s early weeks in office is not significantly greater compared to previous peaks, but warned that the Trump administration’s efforts to hinder entry into the country could complicate efforts to deal with the challenge.
“There are many cases where there have been more people, but the previous administration has endeavored to dismantle the institutions that contribute to a functioning immigration system,” said Eric Hershberg, director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University.
“So what this government is having to do is rapidly increase the capacity to prosecute people arriving at the border, find out how to host them while their requests for immigration assistance are tried … and find out how to obtain them, as well that are released epidemiologically, for family members who can take care of them while working in the immigration system, ”he added.
Biden government officials discouraged migrants from the North Triangle region in Central America to make the journey to the U.S. border, warning that the trip is dangerous, the United States is unable to process a large number of people and that the majority of migrants are being turned away on the border.
Still, border agents are arresting thousands of migrants a day, and even some Democrats have warned that the situation could evolve into a total crisis in the coming weeks.
Texas state senator Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, a Democrat living in the border town of McAllen, told The Hill that the influx of migrants is quickly becoming a crisis and that the authorities do not have the resources they need to prosecute. migrants or test them all for COVID-19.
He said the Biden government’s move to allow people to stay in the country while awaiting their immigration procedures – a practice called “catch and release” that was banned by Trump – is encouraging migrants to take the dangerous trip, despite the White House calls for people to stay at home.
“It’s getting worse,” said Hinojosa. “I don’t think, frankly, that the Biden government was aware of what is going on here, which you can understand because they are just coming in and trying to get people to see what is going on, but I am not. I think they knew that many were coming. The border patrol is overloaded, they are throwing their hands up because they don’t know what to do. “
Border Patrol reported an average of about 3,000 arrests a day in January. Authorities have not released the total number of seizures in recent weeks, but Reuters reported that Border Patrol agents arrested about 4,500 migrants on Wednesday alone, a figure that rivals the apprehension peak in 2019 when President Trump
Donald TrumpBiden will sign an executive order with the aim of increasing access to voting Albany Times Union’s editorial board calls for Cuomo’s resignation. threatened to close the border.
Biden made the deployment of Trump’s immigration policies a priority when he took office. The new administration halted the construction of the border wall and suspended the Protocols for the Protection of Migrants that required migrants to remain in Mexico pending processing while promising to reunite separated families for the past four years.
“We certainly have a different approach,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki
Jen Psaki Cruz puts control over Biden’s CIA candidate US refugee agency sees record number of migrants in February. Democrats prepare for public relations battle for relief from COVID-19 MORE said Friday when asked if Biden’s change in approach was encouraging migrants to make their way to the U.S. border. “We understand the result and the impact of this, but we are using all the tools at our disposal and we will use all the authorities we can to make it clear that this is not the moment to come.”
Republicans are trying to increase pressure on Biden to act with authority to resolve the problem.
Leader of the home GOP Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthyMcCarthy runs for ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ by reading: I ‘still like’ the Chamber of Commerce of Dr. Seuss clarifies the position of lawmakers who voted against electoral certification. Watch live: McCarthy gives press conference MORE (California) on Friday requested a meeting with Biden, saying he feels “compelled to express great concern about the way his government is addressing this crisis”.
House Republicans asked the House Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat to hold a hearing on the increase in the border.
In a statement released on Friday, Trump unloaded on Biden, accusing him of creating the crisis.
“Our frontier is now totally out of control thanks to Joe Biden’s disastrous leadership. Our great border patrol and ICE agents were disrespected, humiliated and ridiculed by the Biden administration. A massive foray into the country by people who shouldn’t be here is happening hourly, getting worse by the minute, ”said Trump.
At the same time, liberals expressed anger about the reopening of housing facilities for unaccompanied minors that were used under Trump.
The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that the Biden government could use a military base in Virginia to house unaccompanied minors as facilities along the border reach maximum capacity.
John Amaya, the former deputy head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under former President Obama, told The Hill that Biden has done an admirable job so far in unfolding Trump’s policies.
But he said that before any comprehensive immigration bill is approved, Biden will need to convince lawmakers and the public that the border is safe, immigrants are being scrutinized and that the entry process is seen as fair by both Americans and migrants. .
He said this will require the Senate-confirmed agency heads and local leaders that the Biden White House was slow to deploy at ICE, Customs and Border Protection and Health and Human Services.
“They are doing a great job reviewing everything done by the last team and trying to end the Frankenstein monster that Trump created and trying to institute a fair and just system that follows international law and our own – that’s a great and wonderful step,” Amaya said.
“Where they need a little more assistance, and it’s an internal decision, they need to put heads of confirmed agencies in the Senate in place,” he said. “The workforce, officers, agents, they need the Senate leadership to confirm and they are lacking. It makes a big difference when you have these leaders in place. “