Border crossings were closed in December due to a sharp increase in the number of migrants.
On the southern border of the United States, border crossing points were opened in Texas, Arizona and California on Thursday.
Some of the border crossings were closed due to the strong increase in the number of migrants in mid-December.
So far, the Mexican border has not seen the same chaos as in December, when more than 300,000 migrants tried to enter the country in one month, more than ever before in recorded history.
At that time, some of the arrivals decided to cross the border with their own permits.
– Last month we saw a record number of illegal border crossings. It’s an uncontrollable disaster. And it’s the president’s fault, described the speaker of the House of Representatives, a Republican, who visited the border Mike Johnson news agency Reuters.
When the president Joe Biden took office, he promised to reform his predecessor Donald Trump’s immigration policy.
In practice, however, Biden has had to continue several practices of the Trump era.
For example, the United States has returned more than 460,000 migrants to their homeland since May, CBS News reports.
Despite intensifying deportations, the United States has had a hard time controlling immigration – more than two million immigrants arrived at the country’s southern border last year.
More than a quarter of them came from the poor and troubled small states of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in Central America.
Mexico is inclined to help
Republicans have long wanted to limit immigration, improve border control and increase deportations.
Without these extortions, they will not agree to support the aid packages for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan pushed by the Democrats in the Congress.
– If President Biden wants additional money for security, it’s best to start with defending America’s security. And it starts here at the southern border, said Johnson, the speaker of the lower house of Congress.
So far, the Biden administration has not publicly bowed to the demands of the Republicans and has instead tried to negotiate help from Mexico to curb the flow of migrants.
Last week, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Mexico to meet the country’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Indeed, Mexico has tended to move migrants struggling to cross the border to the southern parts of Mexico and to deport people back to Venezuela.
However, Mexican President Obrador has repeatedly pointed out that the United States should eradicate the root cause of immigration: the low standard of living in Latin America.
In 2021, Joe Biden’s administration announced a support program worth about four billion dollars for this very purpose, but according to critics, its implementation has been too slow.
Immigration reform in preparation
According to the news channel CBS News The White House and a group of senators from both parties are currently negotiating a package of legislation that, if implemented, would bring significant changes to US asylum and border security policy.
It is said that the Biden administration has already shown a budding green light for reducing the number of asylums and increasing deportations.
In return, the Republicans would support the security package, driven by the Democrats, worth more than 105 billion dollars, which would, among other things, help Ukraine in its war against Russia.
CBS bases its information on anonymous official sources who know the content of the negotiations.
Border security is believed to be a major election issue in this year’s US presidential election.
– We have to do something. They should give me the money I need to protect the border, President Joe Biden commented earlier this week when asked about the security of the southern border.
Source: Reuters