Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that the Biden administration is going beyond the Obama administration to create “completely open borders” as the numbers continue to rise at the border.
Pompeo, who served in the previous government, defended Trump-era policies, such as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), and criticized the new government for reversals that, he said, were encouraging illegal immigration to the border and helping coyotes.
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“It is not human to create this false set of incentives for these people to find and make this arduous journey through their own country, then through Mexico and try to enter the United States of America,” he said. “We had these policies in place. We worked hard. I worked diligently to convince the Mexican government to allow these asylum seekers to remain in Mexico.”
“It was working and now the government has abandoned it,” he said.
The Biden administration reversed not only the MPP – which kept migrants in Mexico for its audiences – but also suspended building walls, closed agreements with countries in the Northern Triangle and began to reduce the number of migrants targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
The government has denied that there is a crisis at the border, although it has admitted that the numbers it faces are “overwhelming”. Pompeo contrasted the movements of Trump and Biden and echoed the sentiments of other Republicans, who accused the Biden government of embracing an extreme left agenda at the border and in immigration.
“We demand that the Mexican government not allow these traffic flows to continue from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. They placed national guards at the border. This created the right incentives for these governments to take care of their own people and not try to transfer these problems to the United States of America, ”he said.
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“It was the right thing for American sovereignty and for the American people. And I am sorry that the Biden administration has, frankly, gone further than even the Obama administration in terms of creating completely open borders on our southern border,” he said.
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His statements were made a day after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that it found 100,441 people in February, a 28% increase from January, the agency said. Of these, 19,246 individuals belonged to family units; 9,457 were unaccompanied children (UACs) and 71,598 were single adults.
So far, meetings in fiscal year 2021 to date are 97% higher than in fiscal 2020 and 24% larger than in fiscal year 2019.