Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch, a national coalition of groups seeking to end immigration detention, said Biden wasted the window after his inauguration to change the system. While 100,000 refugees from the Ukraine are set to be welcomed to the US, images last year showed Haitian migrants being rounded up with lassos by border patrol agents on horseback in scenes resembling the Wild West. Yet the Biden White House has been accused of discrimination for favouring white applicants. The Biden administration raised the cap on refugee admissions for this year to 125,000, the highest level since 1993, and nearly 10 times the 15,000-a-year cap under Trump. He ended his predecessor’s practice of sending migrants back across to Mexico while their asylum applications were processed.īut he sparked outrage from progressives when he restarted the programme, known as “Remain in Mexico”, again in December, albeit on a reduced scale, after being forced to by a federal judge. When he took office Biden signed an order stopping the construction of any new border wall, which was Trump’s signature policy. You have the traffickers and smugglers who operationalised these policy changes, telling people we can get you in, too.” Donald Trump visits Alamo, Texas, inJanuary 2021 (Pic: White House/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock) “The message there is that Biden said to come, that he shut down immigration enforcement, he stopped the wall. “He said: “They’re trying to play a little game with the Washington media saying wink, wink don’t come but that’s not the message south of the border. Mike Hamilton, a former Department of Homeland Security oversight counsel and director of the Oversight Project at right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation, described such numbers as a massive rush. Lifting Title 42 could lead to 18,000 migrants a day, administration officials have admitted. In April 234,088 migrants crossed the southern border, topping March’s 22-year high of 221,444. The president’s critics say lifting Title 42 would cause even greater numbers of migrants to come to the US than the current record surge. The most politically toxic issue for Biden is the Covid-era restrictions on asylum, known as Title 42, which allow the authorities to deport almost all migrants on public health grounds.īiden tried to end the policy last month but was blocked by a federal judge – the White House has vowed to appeal. The reality for Biden has been far less straightforward, according to experts and campaigners who told The Sunday Post that the president has come under fire from the left and the right. The president described the crisis as a moral and national shame under his hardline predecessor who demonised migrants and cracked down on migration. Migrants in the caravan, who are mostly from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, are demanding the US leader honour a promise to relax a near total ban on asylum brought in by Donald Trump because of the pandemic.īut doing so brings grave risks for Biden who vowed to restore humanity to the immigration system when he took office. The group with a population estimated at 15,000 left the sweltering town of Tapachula on the Mexican border with Guatemala on Monday and began walking north, to arrive on the United States’ southern border in a few weeks’ time. The largest migrant caravan ever is heading straight for the US and bringing with it a huge headache for President Joe Biden. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Information An icon of an information logo. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. ![]() Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. ![]() Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. ![]() Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across.
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