National Review
Texas Dem detonates border visit by Biden delegation: ‘They didn’t speak to anyone’
Representative Henry Cuellar (D., Texas) on Friday criticized the way the Biden government is dealing with the US-Mexico border crisis, calling a White House delegation for not speaking to anyone when they visited the border this week. . “Any president must come down [and] it really spends time with border communities, ”Cuellar told Fox News. “You know, the president sent a delegation and a lot of people from the White House. They didn’t speak to anyone, not even the members of Congress down here. “Earlier this month, Cuellar told the National Review that, although he is a Democrat who supports the government, as well as supporting the Obama administration,” sometimes I think they need to do more and listen to border communities. ” The Biden government is struggling to control the rapidly deteriorating situation on the border: the number of migrant children in custody along the border has tripled in the past two weeks to more than 3,250 and of those more than 1,360 have been in detention for longer than the three days. allowed, according to the report. An early CBP report this week is expected to show that there were about 100,000 seizures in the past month. The influx comes at a time when Biden ended several policies that the Trump administration had implemented in response to a 2019 border crisis. The new government ended the Protocols for the Protection of Migrants, or the “Stay in Mexico” program, which obliged migrants to wait for their hearings in Mexico. The authorities have also rescinded several agreements with Central American countries. Cuellar told Axios that he expects the government to continue using the Trump era Title 42 public health order to quickly expel migrant adults and families during the pandemic. He also expressed concern that some immigrants were being allowed to enter the country without taking the COVID-19 test first. “You just can’t say, ‘Yes, yes, let everyone in’ – because then we will be affected over the border,” Cuellar told the newspaper last month. Although the government denied that the situation at the border qualifies as a “crisis”, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday sent an email to the team asking for volunteers for a “Volunteer Force” to help the CBP on the border, which faces an “overwhelming number” of migrants. “You have probably seen the news about the overwhelming number of migrants seeking access to this country along the southwestern border,” he said. “President Biden and I we are committed to ensuring that our nation has a safe, orderly and humane immigration system, while continuing to balance all other critical DHS missions. ” Biden’s look at creating a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants and the implementation of other looser immigration policies is likely to encourage migrants to try to cross the border, experts say.