After more than a year of complaints and calls for action especially from Texas leaders, President Biden announces plans to make the U.S. border with Mexico more secure.
That plan announced Thursday at the White House also reduces the number of immigrants allowed from Mexico and four other countries where most of the people have been coming from. But there's anger and frustration that Biden still hasn't addressed how to deal with millions of immigrants who have been living and working in the U.S. illegally for years including 1.7 million people here in Texas.
The woman, who says she was promised a better life in the U.S., faces ransom demands from human smugglers, known as coyotes. "We can't stop people from making the journey," Biden said at a press conference."But we can require them to come here in an orderly way under U.S. law." But civil rights activists, like Quintanilla, say it's disappointing that the new policy does not include a path to legal status for the millions of Mexican immigrants who have been living and raising families here for decades without documentation.
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