City of El Paso, Fla: The Mayor’s High-Level Security Dialogue at the Border Collapse and the Importance of Humanitarian Emergency Response
The declaration will direct all relevant city agencies to respond to the humanitarian crisis and also create the city’s Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers. The mayor said the state of emergency will be in effect for 30 days.
Shelters on both sides of the border are crowded with people who have fled poverty and violence in their home countries to seek asylum in the US.
The city of El Paso bussed 7,754 migrants to New York and 2,091 to Chicago from August 23 to October 6 in 207 charter buses, according to Mario D’Agostino, El Paso City Deputy Manager. The migrants were processed by the Border Patrol and released into the community.
We are going to make an announcement once we finalize how we will continue to live up to our legal and moral obligation. Until then, we’re just letting people know what we’re thinking of and how we’re going to find creative ways to solve this man-made humanitarian crisis,” Adams said at an unrelated event.
The argument is that the policies of the Biden administration have made it easier for people to cross the border illegally. Republican candidates promise to crack down on illegal immigrants if they win the elections.
The busing campaign has led to sparring between Abbott and Adams, whose administration has accused the governor of using human beings as political pawns and whose city has been long considered a sanctuary for migrants. Housing assistance is one of the resources that the mayor has asked for. The White House said it was still in touch with Adams, and that it was committed to FEMA funding.
Legal concerns made the idea never come up in the Trump administration. In the past 4 years, three Republican governors have brought it to life by busing and flying thousands of immigrants from the border and dumping them in Martha’s Vineyard and other Democratic-leaning areas.
Mr. Blinken joined several top Biden administration officials at an event with the minister, Marcelo Ebrard, officially titled a “high-level security dialogue.” The discussion was supposed to focus on protecting the health and safety of American and Mexican citizens.
The immigration issue was the focus of the meeting as it was at a moment of huge migration across Central and South America, less than a month before the elections.
Biden officials chose their words carefully on the sensitive topic of immigration, avoiding phrases like “border crisis” and emphasizing that the effects of social and economic upheaval in the region, thanks in part to the pandemic, are not unique to the United States.
The cold weather in El Paso, Texas and other parts of the US has made it hard for migrants who haven’t turned themselves in to border agents or officials to find shelter.
The challenge facing the immigrant crisis in Central America: Implications for the border city of Tijuana, Reynosa and Matamoros
A mother of three children who is seven months pregnant couldn’t stop watering her eyes as the social worker apologized for coming empty-handed.
Leeser’s comments and a visit from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to El Paso this week have reignited the debate over how authorities should respond to an expected influx of migrants with the lifting of Title 42, the Trump-era public health policy that allows federal immigration agents to swiftly expel migrants to Mexico or their home countries.
A senior Border Patrol official said last week that there was a major surge in illegal crossings in the area over the weekend.
“It’s something that we’re going to have to work with the UN and other countries to work through. It’s a situation that again, is bigger than El Paso, and now it’s become bigger than the United States,” he told reporters earlier this week.
A federal judge has ordered the government to end the policy by December 21, and the reality of that looming deadline is weighing heavily on this city, where officials and community organizations already say they’re overwhelmed.
“We have a responsibility to meet at this moment,” said Marisa Limón Garza, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, a local nonprofit that provides legal services to immigrants.
It requires all of us to make sure that our elected officials take a stance in this regard, and that we encourage them to do more. We do not have that luxury of turning away something that we don’t need to. She said that people need to know about this phenomenon.
CNN spoke with people on both sides of the US-Mexico border about the harsh realities that migrant families have experienced since fleeing poverty as well as drug and gang violence in their home countries, and the role that some locals play in the humanitarian crisis.
In Mexico, at least 22,000 migrants are sleeping in shelters, on the streets and in makeshift encampments across the border cities of Tijuana, Reynosa and Matamoros, city officials and advocates told CNN on Monday.
Traveling to El Paso for the Final 8 Hours: The Memories of Miguel Aguilera, Daniel Banda, and his Journey to Central Texas
For the past week, Misael Aguilera has waited outside the Greyhound station hoping to embark on the final 8-hour bus drive that will reunite him with his brother in Central Texas.
He spent more than two months traveling to El Paso, but is not able to afford a bus ticket. He arrived at the border with no more than his clothes.
The experience of traveling to Mexico was awful, but it was something that marked me for life, and I will not forget it.
The makeshift camp he keeps outside the bus station is somewhat organized and clean since he used to work as a nurse specialist in Cuba. Some people leave their blankets behind on the buses, which he and others collect and use to save other people who may arrive at a given time.
“We are trying to keep things tidy. “We can feel safer if the space is kept clean and if trash is being picked up.”
Others near the Greyhound station are Diaz, her family and her sister’s family. A group of people, including adults and their toddler to teenage children, who were not able to afford bus tickets, have been in El Paso for a week.
Afraid of getting separated, they spent most nights on the streets after shelters wouldn’t accept all of them or denied them entry for not having arranged travel out of El Paso. There have been countless times when Diaz’s husband Carlos Pavón Flores, can only hold their daughter Esther in his arms, in silence. He wants to keep her warm if nothing else.
Daniel Banda tends to a once-quiet convenience store and gas station near the edge of downtown El Paso. Many migrants, who have been released from Border Patrol custody, have found the building across the street, two blocks from the Greyhound station, to be the first place to go for food and water.
And the 20-year-old, who used to spend his days solely cleaning and restocking shelves, might be the first El Paso resident who is not a government official that many migrants encounter.
Some people ask him if the store would exchange pesos for dollars, if they sell sim cards so that they can call their loved ones, or if they could go to a store where they can buy clothes. At times, the constant traffic could be hectic, Banda says, but he understands the precarious situation migrants are experiencing.
“My family taught me to help in any way I can, because I am from a modest background,” he said. They are very respectful. They are a better group of people than some locals.
The Journey of an El Paso homeless shelter migrant center to the border: John Martin’s work at the Opportunity Center for the Homeless
Dozens of people are outside on the sidewalk, a few feet away from the store. In the past two months, the number of people in the area has increased considerably, he says. Some have been sleeping there for nearly a week while others arrived no more than a day ago.
Because he talks to his family about what he does in the store, his mother has started to collect blankets from employers and acquaintances to send to migrants in need.
Staff from social workers, receptionists, and maintenance workers rushed to pick up intake forms and pens for 25 men who were released from immigration custody without prior notice at a shelter in El Paso.
The facility is one of five homeless shelters that have been either at capacity or over capacity with the arrival of migrants, said John Martin, deputy director of the Opportunity Center for the Homeless, which runs the shelters.
Many people, including Martin and his staff, are working with various groups and charities to help migrants who are close to reaching their breaking point.
There are few options for shelter for migrants who do not have documentation. CNN spoke with two shelters who are accepting undocumented migrants but are experiencing overcrowding.
“We may get 30 on their way and all of a sudden, I’ve got 50 that come in right behind them. “We don’t know when we will be able to catch up at this rate.”
As the days pass and the number of migrants continues increasing, Martin is unsure of the shelter’s future and says he worries they would have to make a decision that goes against the shelter’s very own mission.
I think that we don’t have the space to adequately handle the Opportunity Center in the next few days, so it’s going to come to a point. And we’re going to have to say no.”
Across the border in Ciudad Juárez, shelters have quickly reached capacity even as more and more facilities opened up in recent months. There is a point of convergence between people who have been temporarily living in this border city for months after being expelled into Mexico, and those who have just arrived at the border and are waiting to find out if they will be deported.
Matamoros and her family have been living in a church shelter in Jurez for six months. In Honduras, she had found success selling used plus-size clothing while her husband operated a car shop — but gang violence, extortion and threats made them fear for their and their children’s lives, the 28-year-old mother says.
Matamoros says she went through phases of desperation and shame being in so much need and hopes she will be able to enter the US with the support of a sponsor.
Matamoros says, “You need to ask yourself, why other people are crossing and you are not, why others have that opportunity and why there are people who waste their chances when there’s people like us who are at risk.”
Mexican Christmas tradition in El Paso: Crossings for a group of migrants near a border crossing with the U.S. Title 42
Families who traveled from other parts of Mexico, Guatemala and Ukraine spent the morning at the shelter arranging chairs, hanging up Christmas lights, and cooking food for a posada, a Mexican Christmas tradition that includes the re-enacting of Joseph and Mary’s search for a room in Bethlehem. Matamoros says it will make her two sons laugh and forget about their journey.
I want it to end soon. I want a stable home for my kids so they don’t get bored, so they spend time together, and so they sleep when they want. I want them to not suffer anymore.
When he was near the Rio Grande banks, the man put a tray down with doughnuts on it and then took off his socks. In a matter of seconds, he managed to dip his feet in the freezing water and step on a series of rocks that led him to US land without dropping the tray.
He’s repeated this ordeal dozens of times a day, carrying pizza boxes, packs of water bottles and more knowing he can’t go further into the US because of his nationality.
A 30-year-old Venezuela is selling food and water to a group of migrants outside of El Paso. The Biden administration started applying title 42 to Venezuela in October after they had previously been exempt.
“It’s our turn to simply wait and see what happens with us (Venezuelans). In the meantime, we work on this side of the border to survive,” said Sanchez Mendez, who has been in Juárez for about a week waiting for the end of Title 42.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/12/us/el-paso-crossings-migrant-stories-reaj-cnnphotos/
El Paso Y el agua de las iglesias: El paisaje de la rioja del coronavirus y la vida de
He spends most of his day walking down the line of people, his voice echoes as he yells el agua se acaba, the water is running out, trying to sell the water bottles he and his friends bought together It’s their way of making money, and one day they’ll go to the North and keep going.
Many of the migrants who are coming into El Paso are not looking to stay, said Mario D’Agostino, El Paso’s deputy city manager, but the city’s infrastructure was struggling to support the crowds pouring in and trickling out.
Many of the arriving migrants have told reporters they’re from Nicaragua. Some people have said they were kidnapped to get to the border.
The need is greater than anything that the Rescue Mission of El Paso has seen, according to its chief executive director.
” I’ve never seen anything like this before.” We were not built for this type of a situation,” Barrow told CNN. “But we have all these people in need in front of us, and we’re doing everything we can.”
Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino told reporters in recent days about 2,500 migrants have crossed the border daily, noting that the situation is different than past surges of migrants across the border.
He said that in the past there had been increases in the number of migrant populations crossing the border. This time, he said, it has been rapid and over a few days.
The Department of Homeland Security says it’s deployed additional agents to the region, claiming that criminal smuggling organizations are behind the influx.
Meanwhile, at the westernmost edge of Texas, some 800 miles northwest of Matamoros, National Guard troops and state police line one side of the Rio Grande at El Paso, and armed members of the Mexican army line some parts of the other side at Ciudad Juárez.
El Paso county judge says he doesn’t want to see these initiatives turn into policing because of political opportunities He said he had been told that the show of force was a training exercise and that it was unclear how long the group would remain at the border.
Title 42 was put in place by the Center for Disease Control in the early days of the coronaviruses epidemic. immigration advocates argue the public health order is being used to stop immigrants at the US-Mexico border, even though officials argue the order was intended to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Immigrants in El Paso after the Trump-era Mexican-Dominated Border Law: What Will They Feel Before They Come to the Border?
But as the president’s aides struggled to deflect criticism from Democrats and human rights groups, they braced for renewed attacks from Republicans who have spent months accusing the administration of being too weak on the border. Senator Capito had criticized Mr. Biden in an opinion article for waiting more than two years to visit the border.
The future for migrants waiting in El Paso, Texas, after crossing the US-Mexico border remains uncertain following the Supreme Court’s Wednesday decision that allows federal officials to continue expelling migrants before they have received an asylum hearing.
Many, including mothers and sick children, are living on the streets, in abandoned homes and on sidewalks as they wait. “They feel desperate,” said Glady Edith Cañas, director of the non-profit Ayudándoles a Triunfar.
Just days before the policy was set to end Wednesday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday put a temporary hold on its termination, temporarily keeping the Trump-era public health restrictions in place.
There were some migrants crossing the Rio Grande in inflatable rafts from Matamoros to Brownsville while large numbers of law enforcement watched on US riverbanks, according to CNN.
Overnight Tuesday, National Guards members and state troopers put up barbed wire, blocking a common crossing used by thousands of migrants over the past several weeks. People trying to cross were told to go to a bridge and be processed for asylum.
El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser declared a state of emergency Saturday due to a recent spike in migrants who are living in unsafe conditions.
El Paso, Spain, a city plan for dealing with a potential surge of migrants if Title 42 is terminated: a tweet from the darien gap
“It’s difficult to have a concrete figure given that we are a transit city; many migrants arrive by air, land, cars and buses,” Gonzàlez Reyes told CNN. “We wouldn’t know exactly how many migrants are in Juárez right now.”
While Title 42 still remains in effect as legal challenges play out in court, El Paso is developing a plan for handling a potential surge of migrants should Title 42 be terminated, Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino said Tuesday.
A mother and son are on their way through the Darien Gap, a 37 mile section of jungle where migrants cross from Columbia to Panama. Brian said he was helping his mother cross when she grabbed a branch and then she fell down a cliff and into a river.
Officials have predicted lifting Title 42 would likely result in a spike in the number of migrants trying to cross into the US, and border cities braced for a flood of migrants.
“I really believe that today our asylum-seekers are not safe as we have hundreds and hundreds on the streets and that’s not the way we want to treat people,” El Paso’s Mayor said Saturday.
The City of El Paso plans to use two vacant schools and three emergency shelter hotels as temporary shelters for migrants.
“All eyes are on El Paso and for this reason, we must show the world the compassion our community is known for and illustrate the resilience and strength of our region,” City Manager Tommy Gonzalez said in a statement.
The plan for the scheduled end of Title 42 was released by the Department of Homeland Security last week. It involved the hiring of over 1,000 Border Patrol processing coordinators and increased transportation resources, like flights and buses.
The senior US Customs and Border Protection official told CNN they are going on as if nothing has changed, and that policy discussions are still underway to give other legal pathways to those who make up a large number of encounters.
“I think there’s some that probably haven’t gotten the message and won’t until they cross,” the official said. “There are some already committed who will cross.”
A woman named Adda said that they weren’t allowed in the shelter because they crossed without permission. We’re not using her last name or any other ones who entered without being detected. Adda is from Venezuela and traveled to El Paso with a group of seven family members, including her pregnant daughter.
The deputy city manager in El Paso, Mario D’Agostino, said they wanted to get everyone off the street before the cold weather hit.
“We are sending buses out to their location to pick up people and bring them over to the convention center so we can free up the space,” D’Agostino said.
The first two weeks of their journey together in Ciudad Juárez: a family of migrants who did not turn themselves into the Border Patrol
The Greyhound bus station’s sidewalks were lined with makeshift blankets and sleeping bags as a group of migrants tried to keep warm.
El Paso police officers on bicycle patrol encouraged migrants to relocate to the emergency shelter a block away in the city-owned convention center. Many of the migrants who were still on the street had not turned themselves into the Border Patrol.
One of the causes of tension was the new asylum regulation that could prevent migrants who cross another country into the US if they are seeking asylum in the United States. The limits are similar to those rolled out during the Trump administration, though officials have rejected the comparison.
A woman named Gabriela tells us that they did not turn themselves into the Border Patrol because they didn’t want to go back. She and her husband crossed undetected with their children.
She described how they went from Venezuela to Panama and then were separated from each other at a jungle reserve in Panama.
The hardest part of the journey was Mexico. Mexican border authorities harassed the family and held them for three days. They said they witnessed children being kidnapped. The family went on their journey with three other migrants.
The group arrived in Ciudad Juárez three days before the Texas National Guard descended upon the northern bank of the Rio Grande. They watched as troops left a parade of armored vehicles and reams of razor wire. The sight was unnerving, even for Wilfor, a 35-year-old cook.
Despite that rumor, the group took their chance at crossing Tuesday night. They picked a spot that involved traversing an irrigation canal known for migrant drownings. They crawled through a hole snipped into a chain-link fence and then sprinted across six lanes of highway where the speed limit was 60 miles per hour.
Are undocumented migrants crossing the Rio Grande? An immigration official warned against crossing the river and desert to avoid human death and tragedy and to remain in a safe shelter
The city must follow state and federal policies, which she said require migrants to have documentation in order to receive shelter at government-run facilities.
If undocumented migrants show up at government-run sites, they’ll be connected with Customs and Border Protection to start the process of turning themselves in or are connected with shelters run by NGOs on the ground, she said.
Three men, who did not want to be identified, told CNN they have been expelled from the US multiple times in recent weeks and no longer want to turn themselves into border authorities because they have been refused legal entry so many times. The men say they did not get detected by the border agents when they crossed the Rio Grande.
“Extremely cold, below freezing temperatures are expected along the Mexico and United States border during the next several days,” Hugo Carmona, Acting Associate Chief of US Border Patrol Operations, said in a video statement. Do not endanger yourself or your loved ones by attempting to cross the river or desert. Help avoid human death and tragedy, stay home or remain in a safe shelter. This is something of an extreme importance.
John Martin, deputy director of the Opportunity Center for the Homeless, told CNN he’s asked the city’s emergency department to open the convention center to undocumented migrants for at least the next two days but has been unsuccessful, he said.
The Abbott-Biden crisis for border communities in Texas is not a catastrophe of your own making, says Amy D’Agostino
The Sacred Heart Church has a normal capacity of 130, but it will be expanded to 200 for the next 4 nights and will be devoted to women and children. But hundreds of people continue to wait outside the church.
The moderate sized airport and a couple of smaller bus terminals are not enough to cope with holiday traffic, according to D’Agostino.
On Christmas Eve, a busload of migrants was dropped off at the residence of the Vice President in Washington, D.C., and it is believed to be the latest confrontation between state officials and the Biden administration.
A total of three busloads of migrants arrived at the Naval Observatory, where Harris lives, on Saturday evening. The migrants were inadequately dressed for the cold, according to the station, and they were met by the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network.
Some state governors sent buses to the nation’s capital after the Biden administration tried to change the policy of denying entry to immigrants.
Amy was speaking on the All Things Considered show on Sunday and claimed that Abbott’s actions were related to racism.
“At the end of the day, everybody who arrived here last night was able to get free transportation, on a charter bus, that got them closer to their final destination,” she said.
Chris Magnus, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, criticized Abbott’s decision to move migrants without adequately coordinating with the federal government and local border communities.
Harris said in an interview that the immigration system needs to be fixed because it has been broken over the last four years.
“This terrible crisis for border communities in Texas is a catastrophe of your own making,” Abbott wrote in a letter to the president on Dec. 20. Thousands of migrants flood into the country every day, and communities and the state are ill-equipped to house them. Many of the migrants are at risk of freezing to death in the city if the temperatures don’t go down.
Officials said that a 2020 order that lets authorities expel most migrants at the border was launched to curb the spread of Covid-19. The policy had been due to end on December 21.
“Given the uncertainty, many decided to leave” Mexico and head unlawfully into the United States, the director of the Hope Center shelter in Ciudad Juárez, Elias Rodríguez, told CNN on Monday.
Southeast of Brownsville, Texas, the number of migrants in Matamoros has swelled over the past week to some 5,000 from about 2,000, according to Glady Edith Cañas, who runs the non-profit Ayudandoles a Triunfar. Some – mostly Venezuelans – are living in a large encampment crowded with tarp-covered tents held up by clotheslines.
Conditions in the camp as dire, migrants have told CNN. The families have been waiting for weeks. People sleep under tents, unsure where their next meal will come from. The temperatures fell over the holiday weekend.
El Paso Y los Derechos Sobre la Constituci’on del Brabapajo en Perdida, Mexico
“They won’t give us the opportunity to be able to cross legally,” said Rodríguez. It was what we wanted, to be able to cross legally.
Dylan Corbett, the executive director of Hope Border Institute that assists with running some of El Paso’s shelters, warned Tuesday that he expects the Supreme Court decision “will extend the bottleneck at the border, create unsustainable pressure on border enforcement and lead to more deaths.”
There are thousands of people waiting to cross over in Juarez. If those were to come all in a relatively short time frame, space would be difficult. We know transportation would be difficult,” D’Agostino said.
In December, the Department of Homeland Security deployed 100 additional personnel to the El Paso region so that it could process more migrants. Shelters in Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, have also seen a decrease in migrants, DHS said.
Cruz-Acosta said that the city cannot accept migrants who don’t have documentation from Customs and Border Protection.
Two local NGOs that are accepting refugees in their shelters told CNN last month that their facilities were so overcrowded they were forced to close their doors to many seeking shelter during the cold spell.
A Visit to the Border Security Situation in El Paso, Texas, When President Biden Visited the Pentagon and Worsened about Border Security Policies
“The president neglecting to visit the southern border — during a time when we are facing record illegal crossings and there is a clear crisis — would be the equivalent of our commander in chief not visiting the Pentagon during a military operation,” she wrote. She said of his visit to El Paso, “This checks a box, but it doesn’t even begin to solve the problems.”
On Sunday, when Biden was in El Paso, Texas, he took the issue of immigration into his own hands while calling for a change in the US immigration system for the sake of current needs.
But the patchwork of policies put in place by the administration to manage the border so far has often put Biden at odds with his own allies who argue that the administration’s approach is too enforcement heavy.
A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus told CNN that the policy changes made by the Democrats make it harder for vulnerable people to seek asylum because they are afraid of angry MagA voters.
“The President is very much looking forward to seeing for himself first-hand what the border security situation looks like, particularly in El Paso. He’s very much also interested in getting to talk to Customs and Border Patrol agents on the ground who are actually involved in this mission to get their first-hand perspectives of it,” Kirby told reporters Friday.
The Bridge of the Americas Port of Entry will be examined by Biden as he tours with Customs and Border Protection officers, members of Congress and local officials.
The official said the president will also spend time with local business leaders to hear about the economic impact of migration in the region and worker shortages.
Biden will be joined by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Texas lawmakers, the El Paso Mayor, and community and business leaders.
“We’ve worked with the White House to make sure that all the folks who are actually doing the work on the ground day-to-day are the ones that the president will meet with,” she said in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. He needs to hear about how our immigration issues have grown over the years and how they need to be addressed.
She blamed the Trump-era public health rule known as Title 42 for the rise in border crossings. The restriction allows migrants to be sent to Africa as quickly as possible.
Escobar predicted, based on her conversations with Department of Homeland Security officials, that the administration would eventually move toward the move punitive Title 8, which allows US authorities to process and remove migrants who do not have a legal basis to be in the country.
All the executive branch efforts are just Band-Aids. Whether it’s Title 8, whether it’s Title 42, we need to make sure Congress acts,” she said. The administration has very little tools to use in the absence of any legislation.
Mayorkas defended Biden’s approach to addressing the migrant surge at the southern border, saying the administration was operating in a humane but necessary way.
Mayorkas said on ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that there is unanimity with respect to the reality of the broken immigration system, and that it was because Congress had failed toRepair for decades.
We want people who get relief under our laws to come to the United States in a safe and orderly way. And that is why we are building lawful pathways so people do not have to place their lives and their life savings in the hands of ruthless smugglers,” he said.
There will be a lot of history and challenges faced by Biden in El Paso, as he tries to stop mass migration in the hemisphere.
Immigration Statistics in El Paso: A Two-Year Progress Report from US Customs and Border Protection, and Implications for the Trump Family Separation Policy
According to US Customs and Border Protection, more than two million people were arrested along the US-Mexico border in the last two years. That includes people who have attempted to cross more than once. Many have also been turned away under Title 42.
According to Federal Data, migrant encounters in El Paso have dropped since December.
There have been less than 700 daily encounters on average over the last few days, compared to nearly 2,500 at its peak in December, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Biden was going to travel to the border if the Title 42 legal machinations weren’t solved by then, and he accused Republicans of playing political games.
The immigration debate has been dominated by El Paso since the beginning of the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
The El Paso sector has become more prolific in the arrests of migrants compared to the Rio Grande Valley sector. RGV is one of the busiest sectors at the border. The El Paso sector is home to 268 miles of international border.
Last November, border authorities encountered more than 53,000 migrants in the El Paso sector, according to the latest available data from US Customs and Border Protection.
Last year, El Paso – whose mayor, Leeser, is a Democrat – began sending migrant buses to New York City, following in the footsteps of Republican governors, to try to get people to their destination and decongest the city. That effort has since stopped.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/politics/joe-biden-border/index.html
U.S. Immigration and Refugees on the Border: A Call to the Biden Officials, Secretary of the Mexican Embassy, and the Prime Minister of Mexico
John Kirby said that the president is looking forward to seeing firsthand the situation on the border during the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico City.
Up to 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela will now be accepted by the administration as part of a humanitarian parole program. Those who do not come to the US under that program may be expelled to Mexico under Title 42.
He added that the border communities would show that the future of the nation is not with deportation, but with hope.
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus grilled top Biden officials, including Mayorkas, over the newly announced border policies in a call Thursday, according to two sources in attendance.
“It was really heated,” one source said, adding that members were “livid” that the administration didn’t consult with them ahead of time. The call included Department of Homeland Security officials and the White House.
The criticism from the same groups that fiercely opposed Mr. Trump’s policies has infuriated Mr. Biden and his aides, who say the comparison is unfair and wrong.
The National Security Council’s John F. Kirby commented on the need to balance the need forlegal pathways to entry and ensure that illegal migration is curbed.
Mr. Kirby and other White House officials pointed out that several mayors who have struggled with the influx of migrants into their cities, including the leaders of San Antonio, Chicago, Washington and New York, praised Mr. Biden’s proposals last week.
The president of Mexico and prime minister of Canada will be talking about what to do with the southern border when Mr. Biden is in El Paso.