Republican governors on Wednesday unveiled a 10-point plan to end the crisis at the southern border as they called on the Biden administration to act to solve the continuing surge of migrants, and reverse policies they say is fueling those record numbers.
to act to solve the continuing surge of migrants, and reverse policies they say is fueling those record numbers.
"President Joe Biden has caused a humanitarian crisis and chaos on our border," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in Mission, Texas along with eight other governors."All Americans saw what happened in Del Rio, Texas just last month and we know that chaos will be repeated unless and until President Biden takes action.""The president must act, he cannot ignore this humanitarian and national security crisis any more," Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said.
The Biden administration has been facing a massive surge in migrants at the border throughout the year, with more than 200,000 migrants hitting the border in both July and August. In September, it faced down a crisis in Del Rio, where more than 15,000 predominantly Haitians gathered under the International Bridge.
While the Biden administration has blamed root causes like poverty, corruption and violence in Central America for the surge, as well as the Trump administration’s ending of legal asylum pathways, Republicans have blamed the Biden administration’s rollback of Trump-era policies. "It’s not a secret anymore," Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said."They have created this crisis and Americans know it."to reverse the crisis, including actions they said Biden could take with the stroke of a pen. It includes the full restoration of the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols -- which kept migrants in Mexico for their immigration proceedings. The administration was recently ordered by a federal court to restart the policy.
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