Illegal immigrants deported from the United States back to Mexico as part of the Trump-era policy say they felt President Biden would let them stay in the United States.
According to COVID-19 policy from former President Donald Trump’s administration, he was repatriated across the border, amid an increase in illegal immigration in Biden’s first months as president.
“Biden promised us that everything was going to change,” Gladys Oneida Perez Cruz, 48, a Honduran resident Told the New York Times After fleeing the US to Mexico. “He hasn’t done it yet, but he is going to be a good president for the migrants.”
The Biden administration has exempted underage minors, but in an illegal border crossing battle adult detainees and families are dropped on a bridge and asked to return to Mexico.
23-year-old Perez and his son Henry, who have cerebral palsy, hired smugglers to cross the border shortly after Biden’s inauguration in January. The smugglers reportedly said the border was open and they would help her disabled son – but neither was true.
Perez’s sister in Maryland paid $ 9,000, but the family was captured and forced to return to Mexico. He told the Times that he intended to return to Central America.
The Times photographed a different group of migrants who were forced to walk back to Mexico without shoes after being detained for illegally entering the US.
That group was also under the impression that the new president would welcome him.
“Biden promised us!” An unknown woman was described as drifting in despair.
Among that group was 19-year-old Jenny Contreras of Guatemala, who was accompanied by her 3-year-old daughter. She said that her husband works as a butcher in Chicago.
The migrants attributed their visits to Biden’s rhetoric are similar remarks from Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obredor, who said this month, “They see him as a migrant president, and so they think they are united.” States are going to reach America. “
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. But new Central American migrants are still not welcome without appointment.
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 illegally brought to the US is.
Biden also proposed legislation to create a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US. House Democrats plan to vote this week on bills to give legal status to farm workers who currently lack governmental permission to work and to illegally bring people as minors to the US into citizenship Permission to pave the way.
Although most adults and families are being turned away, the Biden administration is allowing minors to stay, at least temporarily.
According to US Customs and Border Protection, in February, 29,792 unattractive children crossed the border without their parents, of whom 2,942 were under the age of 12. Is five times higher than 5,871 unreasonable minors In January.
The Biden administration has relaxed the COVID-19 rules on physical vacancy in youth shelters after opening two overflow facilities for minors.
The total number of people coming along the Mexican border rose to more than 100,000 in February, a 28 percent increase from January. In February, 72,113 people were deported, the CBP said.
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