The administration estimates as many as 200,000 migrants could be enrolled in such...
Migrant families wait for transportation after U.S. Border Patrol agents detained around 200 migrants, along Military Road in La Joya, Texas, Thursday, June 3, 2021. According to numbers released for fiscal year 2021, family unit apprehensions were up 489-percent over FY2020. Unaccompanied minors went up 230-percent in that same time span.
“They’re looking for catch-and-release,” said Lora Ries, a research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and a former Departmen of Homeland Security official. “They’re fine with that policy, even though it clearly sends the message south to future migrants and smugglers who advertise this, and it just keeps the illegal flow continuing unencumbered.”The president’s budget calls for hiring 300 new Border Patrol agents and 300 new Border Patrol officials to process migrants.
Democrats have ratcheted up pressure on Biden to scrap Title 42, which they say undercuts the legal asylum system and is unjustifiable with the decline in COVID cases.“For more than two years, asylum-seekers have been illegally expelled from the United States without the due process they deserve,” U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a San Antonio Democrat, said in a statement. “Trekking hundreds or thousands of miles across dangerous terrain is not something people do when they have better options.
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