Biden's border plan calls for 23,000 officers, slashing asylum processing time
FILE ?‘ A family from Honduras is deported from El Paso, Texas to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on March 18, 2021. The Biden administration is grappling with the political fallout of the end of Title 42, a pandemic-era policy established during the Trump administration that turned away most migrants from the border.
Republicans who have blamed President Joe Biden for an increase in border crossings that started shortly after he took office continued to point at the White House. “Your plan you laid out, actually, I think it could work,” said U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat who has warned since last March that the Biden administration was ill-prepared to respond to the surge.
The memo says U.S. Customs and Border Protection currently has 23,000 agents and officers working on the southern border. By May 23, when the order lifts, the agency will be prepared to hold about 18,000 migrants in custody at any given time, up from 13,000 at the beginning of 2021, the memo says. It says the agency has encountered more than 7,800 migrants per day on average over the last three weeks and expects that figure to rise when the order lifts.
Mayorkas repeatedly stressed that Title 42 is not an immigration policy, but a public health effort to contain the coronavirus. He sought to put the current migration crisis in a global perspective, noting that the pandemic exacerbated the problems already plaguing Central and South American nations, including poverty, corruption and natural disasters, that have displaced millions in the western hemisphere.
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