The United States will send more soldiers to the Mexican border and will undertake hot expulsions. The US president, Joe Biden, has defended in the last hours, in an interview on the MSNBC network, the sending of 1,500 soldiers to the border with Mexico before the end scheduled for next week of Title 42, a health regulation that allows the hot expulsions of migrants.
“I have asked Congress for help in terms of what they need at the border. They need more agents,” the president said.
Biden’s plan has received criticism from Republican lawmakers, who accuse the Democrat of doing too little and too late, but also from some members of his own party, such as Senator Bob Menéndez, who believes that sending the military to the border criminalizes migrants.
Active members of the Army cannot enforce the laws, so the reinforcements that the White House will send will not be able to carry out expulsions, recalls MSNBC.
The president assured that his government will also send a thousand judges specialized in asylum to speed up the processing of people who arrive at the border.
Biden defended that in this case it is the US Congress that must act, reforming the country’s immigration policy to provide a lasting solution to the crisis at the border.
The US will put an end to the health emergency due to covid-19 on May 11, which will imply the lifting of Title 42, used since the mandate of Donald Trump (2017-2021) for the hot returns of migrants in the border with the excuse of the pandemic.
The Government of Joe Biden has predicted an increase in the arrivals of migrants from different countries in the region after the end of the regulations.
To try to mitigate the impact, the country announced last week that all those who cross the border and cannot prove they are victims of persecution or torture in their countries will be removed under Title 8, another policy that allows for expedited removals.
In addition, Washington intends to create centers to process migrant cases in other countries, such as Colombia and Guatemala. Spain and Canada have agreed to host people from these centers
