According to the new report, the Biden administration is considering flying migrants illegally crossing the US-Mexico border for processing as a way to ease the pressure on overwhelmed facilities in Texas.
The strategy is under consideration amid the continuing cross-border boom that critics blame on President Biden’s policies and reform legislation that would pave the way for citizenship for most illegal immigrants.
Two Homeland Security officials told the Washington Post that the administration is considering aerial lifts on the northern border due to the large number of unprovoked children and families in the south border.
By the authorities Told the Washington Post On that Friday morning 1,000 people who were either minors without permission or family units crossed the Rio Grande into Texas, and another 1,000 were still awaiting processing since Thursday night.
The Biden administration is using the Trump-era COVID-19 policy to expel most single adults, but has said that all ineligible children will be admitted at least temporarily and if they have room in their home in Mexico Only those families will be expelled.
New figures indicate a growing crisis.
Along the length of the US-Mexico border in February, 29,792 children were detained without their parents – almost five times as much in January – of which 2,942 were under 12 years old. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The total number of people coming along the Mexican border rose to more than 100,000 in February, up 28 percent from January.
Democratic leaders insisted on Friday that the border situation was “under control” as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas traveled to the southern border to inspect the facilities. Mekores’ trip was called off to the press.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) said that “I think the administration is getting this thing under control,” while also acknowledging that the Biden administration has changed some policies, such as now expelling minors. do.
“In the spring, more people come, so there will be more,” Pelosi said at a press conference on Friday.
“The Biden administration has it under control. It will take some time – this is a change and it will take some time. But it is based on values, humane in its aspects and practical with plans to achieve things. “
On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would pave the way for citizenship of up to half of the estimated illegal immigrants in the US, including farmworkers and children arriving as minors. Many Republicans said the bills create new “bridge” factors for migration.
Last month, Biden ended Trump’s “Made in Mexico” policy, which required Central American asylum seekers to remain in Mexico, while US courts reviewed their claims.
Biden stopped construction of his predecessor Mexico border wall and issued an order confirming the 2012 Order for Childhood Arrivals Program, which would provide work permits and protection for minors from deportation to those brought to the US illegally is.
Biden also proposed legislation to make citizenship a path for all of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US. On Thursday, Biden tweeted that he wanted Congress to pass legislation that would “legalize the undivided population in the United States.”
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