When US President Joe Biden was campaigning, he made many promises to change the immigration laws that Trump had firmly established. This issue was a significant component of his campaign and ultimate victory in the presidential election. Since Biden became President, he has taken measures to reunite migrant children with their families with the help of a task force.
In April, Biden declared a national plan that would only allow 15,000 migrants into the US in 2021. After immense criticism by the public, Biden increased the number of migrants to 62,500. Biden also said the border wall which was planned by Trump’s administration would not be built. His migration policies reflect more liberal views shared by younger generations of Americans.
Although Biden’s administration has made many reformations in the country’s immigration policies, illegal migration remains an unsolved issue. When Biden entered the White House, he warned migrant caravans not to make the perilous journey through Mexico into the United States as migration laws were not going to be changed dramatically in a short time.
Presently, there are more illegal migrants entering the U.S. than at any point in the previous three years. There is a surge of people (including young children) travelling into the US through Mexico. Each year, thousands of migrants from ‘caravans’ and travel to the US on foot. This year, the number of migrants attempting to enter the U.S. is astounding and will easily surpass the figures shown in previous years.
In January, approximately 7,000 migrants from Honduras were intercepted by security forces in Guatemala.
In February, the number of immigrants, mostly families with young children, caught by U.S. authorities, while attempting to enter the U.S. through the southern border tripled to almost 19,000.
Many of the migrants, who were interviewed by reporters while making their way through Mexico, mistakenly believe that Biden has made drastic changes to immigration policies and will allow them to remain in the U.S. A smuggler confessed to Reuters that he heard there was the free passage into the U.S. for the first 100 days of Biden’s administration.
Similar rumours have been circulating with the help of private groups on Facebook. Although immigration policies remain tough on illegal immigrants, there have been migrant families who were able to stay in the U.S. legally.
In April, Biden’s administration began to oppose the wave of illegal immigrants entering the country. The State Department has released 28,000 ads in Spanish, Portuguese, and Indigenous languages on 133 stations across central and south America. The ads were designed to discourage immigrants from embarking on the journey to the U.S.
Due to the outbreak of Covid-19 cases, Biden left a few of Trump’s emergency policies in place. One such policy allows U.S. authorities to expel every illegal immigrant entering the U.S. through the southern border. There are cases of civil rights groups suing Biden’s administration to have the U.S. asylum system continue working on migrant cases.
Biden’s effectiveness in dealing with the mass migration issue is yet to be seen. So far, he has taken a strong stance against illegal migration with more diplomatic flare than his predecessor would have expressed.
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