The administration of President Joe Biden is ramping up deportations and prosecutions of immigrants illegally crossing the country's southern border, citing concerns about the rapid spread of the delta virus variant.
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The Biden administration has also resumed urgent evacuations of some immigrant families that cannot be expelled to Mexico under the Public Health Order, with authorities executing 6 express transfers to Central America, deporting 242 migrant men, women, and children under the measure.
"Adult migrants who attempt to cross the southern border again after being deported can be referred for criminal prosecution under another decision aimed at reducing the high recidivism rate among border crossers, especially Mexican men," Customs and Border Protection official Manuel Padilla told CBS. “.
“What we want to discourage is illegal immigration,” Padilla said in Spanish, as the evacuation efforts mark a new, tougher chapter in the Biden administration’s immigration policy, which previously focused on expanding asylum capacity, ending Trump-era restrictions and accelerating the handling of unaccompanied children. their families, and the administration said at the time that the overall goal was to establish a “humane and orderly” operation.
“We will always be a nation with borders, and we will enforce our immigration laws in a fair and just manner,” the White House said in an outline of immigration policy and border management, released last month. Corona, prompted the administration to retool its approach and use measures that have historically been used to deter immigration.
About 210,000 migrants were rounded up by border guards along the border with Mexico in July, a monthly total not seen since 2000, according to preliminary figures.
In a court announcement last week, David Shahulian, a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security who oversees border policy, reported "a significant increase in coronavirus infection rates among immigrants in Border Patrol facilities, many of which are becoming overcrowded."
Current immigration levels are frustrating the Biden administration's long-term immigration policy goals, said Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the Naturalization Service for Immigrants and a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, referring to the growing concerns at the border. During the hot summer months.
The White House declined to comment on the record of the department's strategy, and Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Mira Bernstein said in a statement that "the Biden administration's policy has not changed."
"Since taking office, the administration has needed to rebuild the previously lethal system to provide safe, orderly, and humane border management, and as part of these efforts, the Department of Homeland Security continues to take steps to improve processing at ports of entry and strengthen the U.S. asylum system."
While unaccompanied children are the only group the Biden administration has flatly exempted from border expulsions, most of the immigrant families encountered along the southern border in the past two months have been allowed to seek asylum and stay temporarily in the United States.
Officials have said their attempts to expel families to Mexico have been hampered by Mexico's reluctance to accept some nationalities, and the recent indefinite extension of a policy of expulsion and urgent deportation of families has angered asylum-seeker advocates, who fear the Biden administration will take a tougher line in enforcing the law on the border.
Talks between the Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over the fate of immigration and border decisions collapsed last week, after the government decided to continue its expulsions, and the administration also suspended a partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union that allowed vulnerable asylum seekers to enter the states United Nations under humanitarian exceptions.
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