When asked by reporters what he learned during his trip to El Paso, President Biden said, “They need a lot of resources. We’re going to get it for them.”
of McAllen; El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser; and El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego.
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. 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.
As part of the new policies, the Biden administration also plans to propose an immigration rule that would deny asylum to anyone who immigrated to other countries and did not seek asylum there first. This rule will go through a public-comment phase before it’s implemented and can take effect. Dylan Corbett, the executive director of the Hope Border Institute in El Paso, said he would “like to see this administration make the moral argument to the rest of the country that we need to put in place an effective, humane, accessible, welcoming and compassionate system of protection at the border.”
He added, “I’ve seen firsthand what trauma is inflicted on migrants who actually use the smuggling organizations, so trauma or tragedy.” Some migrants said they have enough money to get on 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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