Biden began sweeping aside his predecessor’s restrictive immigration policies on his first day in office. But he left one major Trump measure in place, the pandemic-related border expulsions known as Title 42. On Thursday, that policy will expire.
On Thursday, that policy will expire, along with the federal government’s coronavirus emergency status.approach at the border have been repeatedly stymied by new waves of people crossing illegally, and former officials say he has become visibly angry at times behind closed doors as his aides sparred over whether tougher measures might stem the flow.
Biden swiftly ended a Trump program that required asylum seekers to “remain in Mexico” until a judge could hear their case, for instance, but by keeping Title 42 in place for so long the president ended up expelling far more migrants than Trump.As a candidate, Biden condemned Trump for charging migrants with the crime of crossing the border illegally. But Biden is now threatening to apply those same criminal penalties aggressively when Title 42 pandemic rules end.
Biden’s more restrictive immigration policies were bound to meet resistance from the Democratic Party’s base, even as he often coupled them with new and expanded pathways for legal immigration to present a balanced approach. The president wanted to create a path to U.S. citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants who have lived for years in the shadows. Biden also said he did not want mass migration and havoc at the border. But illegal crossings along the southern border reached 2.4 million last year, the highest ever.
But after thousands of Haitians streamed into the border city of Del Rio, Tex., in September 2021 — many of them coming from countries such as Chile, where they had earlier fled — officials expelled horrified migrants on airplanes bound for Haiti.U.S. special envoy to Haiti Daniel Lewis Foote resigned after learning about the deportations on the nightly news, saying it was irresponsible to send deportees to a nation in crisis that couldn’t absorb new arrivals.
“Both Klain and POTUS had a fixation on the numbers,” said one of the former aides. “At that point, the president was not interested in the longer-term stuff. He was interested in what’s going on right now, and whether it was getting worse or better.” Many of the minors have ended up in dangerous jobs, cleaning slaughterhouses at night or working construction to pay off debts to smugglers and support family back home, leading to criticism that the Biden administration had released the minors into dangerous conditions.Biden responded to the surging number of border crossings during his first months in office by deploying Harris to address the root causes of migration in Central America. Harris and others have promoted U.S.
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