Texas, United States.
US President Joe Biden is facing increasing pressure from republicans by the arrival of migrants, especially minors, to the border with Mexico, a situation that the opposition qualifies as the first migration crisis of his mandate.
The Republican Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, this Monday, a delegation of congressmen leading the border in Texas to the increase in the arrival of migrants.
Rubia Tabora, a 25-year-old Guatemalan woman, crossed the irregularly shaped edge in Texas with her one-year-old son to join her husband who lives in Virginia.
“In my country no work, no money “he told AFP over the weekend. For her the fact that waitIt made a difference to be in government. “My husband told me to come now,” she added.
Near 200 irregular migrants passed the bus station in Brownsville, Texas, near the border with Mexico, according to local associations.
In February, about 100,000 people were arrested in the Frontera on Among them 9,457 unaccompanied minors, an increase of 28% from January, the authorities said.
To cope with the flow of minors, Alejandro Mayorkas, head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the emergency service will support FEMA in the task of provide temporary shelter to the children, amid criticism that authorities held them in overcrowded facilities for a long time.
“Out of hand”
The increase in the arrival of people to the Frontera andIt is a political challenge for Biden, who wants to reverse much of his policies immigration imposed by its predecessor, Donald Trump.
President democrat wants to process an ambitious immigration reform in Congress that could provide a path for the citizenship in front of millions of undocumented migrants.
In Washington, Republicans reject one “crisis” at the border, but the White House refuses to accept this rhetoric.
For the minority leader republican of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, “this crisis is it’s getting out of hand. “
Republicans fear the arrival of good weather with the boreal summer will increase flow at the border. The mayor of the city of Uvalde, in Texas, indicated that he was waiting for the arrival in between 25,000 and 30,000 migrants for the summer season.
“Near us we are not rested to deal with this, “said the mayor.” Our resources are being depleted by the pandemic and we also had the snowstorm a few weeks ago”.
For the government of Biden, which decided to suspend Trump-signed agreements as a program “Stay in Mexico”, who forced asylum seekers to wait on the other side of the Frontera, and restored the CAM initiative to receive Central American minors with parents legal residence in the United Statesyes, the message is that “it border is closed “ to irregular immigration.
Last week, the press secretary of the White House admitted it is a “huge challenge” and a central issue for the president, but ditched the use of the word crisis.
“We adopt policies to address what we see as one human challenge at the borderadded the spokeswoman for the executive branch.
An immigration reform
Democratic senator on weekends Chris Murphy defended the government on Fox News Network, “stating that the president” inherited “from the Trump administration a “disasterin immigration issues and trying to resolve it in one human form “.
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For the republicans, the announcement that the Democratic president wants to provide a path to citizenship on de 11 million immigrants Irregularly caused a call effect.
The comprehensive immigration reform announced by the Democrats mid-February is not on the calendar for the next polls, an indication that party leaders are unsure whether they have the necessary votes.
In anticipation, the party wants to vote in the House of Representatives this week on a bill to pave the way for the naturalization of the “dreamers, young people who came to the United States as children in the company of their parents, and to farm laborers.