Texas, United States.
A government delegation led by the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, visited the this weekend border with Mexico to evaluate how the response of the White House until the boom in the coming of undocumented, especially of unaccompanied minors.
The White House reported in a statement the visit, in which 14 officials of the US president’s government took part on Saturday Joe Biden, which will soon publish a detailed report on the conclusions of the trip.
The delegation visited a center of the Border Patrol and facilities of the Office of Resettlement of Refugees (ORR), the body responsible for the foster care of minors undocumented arriving at the Frontera without the company of Adults and come by immigration authorities.
HOUSING MINORS
The consultants of Biden “They talked about the capacity needs given the number of unaccompanied children and families that is arrival at the border, and the complex challenges associated with rebuilding it immigration system and border infrastructure that has been gutted “by the previous government, the statement said.
They also evaluated the “improvements that need to be made to restore safe and efficient procedures to process and restore house minors unaccompanied, in addition to reuniting with them family or guardians “, Add.
“In addition, they discussed ways to reduce the fair and humane treatment of immigrants, the safety of (migrant) workers and the well-being of nearby communities, in a time of global pandemic “, the note concludes.
Although the government of Biden warned that the border with Mexico remains closed and that it is not the time to try to reach the United States, the stream of immigrants has increased remarkably since the new president arrived at the effect in January.
INCREASED ARRIVALS
More of 300 minors have been unaccompanied per day detained in recent weeks by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS, in English).
And this week, immigration officers have more than detained 4,000 undocumented migrants per day, nearly double the January figures, The Washington Post reported this Sunday.
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Meanwhile, the government of Biden confirmed in a court document this Friday his plan to end the long-term detention of families from undocumented immigrants and limit to a maximum of 72 hoursor that they can be detained, located in two centers in Texas.
Although most adults who arrive at the border are expelled immediately under the so-called “Title 42”, a measure that is protected in the covid-19 pandemic, for minors and for some families with children if it allows andEnter and apply for asylum.
That has increased pressure on government facilities that temporarily house unaccompanied minors, who held 94% of their capacity this week, according to sources from the Department of Health and Human Services – on which the ORR agency depends – quoted by the chain CNN. EFE