Several Democrats told Newsweek they believed the Biden administration was moving 'backward' on its border policy.
to resign over their handling of the crisis, putting Biden in an increasingly tenuous position leading up to the 2024 presidential election.
"I think the Biden administration's immigration policy has been an utter disaster," Texas Republican Senator."In two years, they have produced the worst crisis at our southern border in the history of our nation, over five and a half million illegal aliens." The reasons, Cruz said, resulted from the halting construction of the border wall and withdrawing from the"enormously successful" Remain in Mexico agreement as well as his administration's inability to maintain the Trump-era Title 42 policy, which allowed DHS to turn away asylum seekers under the guise of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Immigrants sit outside a migrant shelter on January 08, 2023, in El Paso, Texas. President Joe Biden visited El Paso this year, his first visit to the border since he became president two years before. U.S. Border authorities took into custody more than 2.5 million migrants in 2022, the highest number on record.All of those factors together have forced Biden to pursue other means to address the crisis., who has expressed vocal concern over the state of the border, told.
Those solutions, however, have proven unpopular among some members of his own party, which remains divided between its commitment to progressive border reforms Biden pledged as a candidate and the increasing pressure from Republican colleagues to address the crisis.
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