Democratic lawmakers from border states are urging President Biden to put an end to Trump-era sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela that have battered those countries’ economies and contributed to a surge of migrants at the southern border of the United States.
pandemic that allowed the U.S. government to quickly expel huge numbers of migrants at the border.
in a letter to Biden obtained by The Washington Post. “We urge you to act swiftly to lift the failed and indiscriminate economic sanctions that were imposed by the prior administration.” The Biden administration has tallied record numbers of illegal entries across the southern border since the president took office, and Biden’s homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, said he expects such“What we are expecting is indeed a surge,” Mayorkas said during a visit to southern Texas last week. He stressed that the situation at the border is “extremely challenging.”
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