Four families separated on the southern border under former President Trump will be reunited in the United States this week, the Biden administration revealed this week.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to offer the identity of the children, only describing them as teenagers older than three, who live without their parents at the time of separation Was lying.
All the children are already in the US. Immigration officials will provide parents with human parole so that they can enter the country for reunification.
The reunion is expected to take place sometime between Monday and Wednesday.
“We continue to work with our parents in the weeks and months ahead to reunite many more children. The DHS secretary told reporters that we still had a lot of work to do, but I am proud of the progress we have made and the reassessment we have done this week.
While the Biden administration may take credit for the reunification of these families, a top official of an immigrant advocacy group pushed back the idea that such accolades were worthy.
“Despite the fact that DHS did nothing to facilitate the parents’ return and reunion this week,” said Carroll Anne Donohe, managing attorney of Al Otro Lado’s Family Reification Project. is. , Told NBC News Monday.
“The only reason these mothers will be parked at the port of entry is because El Otro Lado negotiated their travel visas with the Mexican government, paid for their airline tickets and arranged a reunion.”
As part of its “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, the Trump administration began separating children and parents illegally crossing the U.S. border in 2017 in an effort to curb migration.
Immigrant rights groups and public alike began to express their displeasure over the policy after it was publicized in 2018, with the backlash becoming so intense that the then president signed an executive order ending the policy.
Now a separate crisis on the border has arisen under the new president.
The Biden administration, ignoring Trump’s borderline policies, has prompted a flood of Central American and Mexican illegal migrants along the US border, including thousands of undocumented children.
These policy steps have been taken by Central Americans seeking asylum from the Northern Triangle countries – Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador – as well as a highly welcoming tone on behalf of Democrats, as a sign that President Biden will lead them across the border. Are invited for.
Insisting that the border was not facing a crisis, Mayorkas said in early March that the problems the agency had faced should be blamed on the previous administration.
However, the data suggests that migrants were flooding the border as they believed Biden would welcome them with open arms.
As Mayorkas denied the existence of a crisis, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obredor blamed the new president for the crisis, arguing that he “expected” he set migrants with the impression that they would move to the US Will give
With post wires
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