The visit to the border for the president is politically fraught — as Republicans have accused Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of neglecting border security and immigration issues.
As Biden visits El Paso, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel will host a press conference in the Rio Grande Valley with community leaders to criticize the president’s “disastrous border security plan and its effects on Texas’s border communities”
At the same time, immigration agents would expand the use of the emergency health order, known as Title 42, to expel the same number of migrants from those four countries to Mexico if they attempt to enter the U.S. illegally. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Mexico has agreed to accept up to 30,000 migrants a month from those countries under Title 42.E
The Biden administration had attempted to lift Title 42 earlier this year before a federal judge in Louisiana ordered the administration to continue enforcing the emergency health order. In November, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., ordered the Biden administration to immediately lift Title 42, then later agreed to give the federal government until Dec. 21 to prepare for the change.
Eleanor Acer, senior director for refugee protection at Human Rights First, said “we urge the administration to adjust course, end its expansion of Title 42, and abandon its misguided plan to advance an asylum ban. “ Some migrants said they have enough money to get a bus out of town to reunite with family in other parts of the country but are afraid to step away from the church’s premises because they are afraid they are going to be arrested by police or immigration agents.
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