Biden has inherited a border policy aimed at political perceptions and unmanageable efforts to stop something that is never stopping…People ARE gonna gonna keep migrating to America as they have since they found out the place was here…And Biden’s people never got a good ‘heads up’ from Trump’s people due to Trump’s reluctance to accept that he lost the election….
Added to all this is no help from lawmakers in Congress….
President Joe Biden blamed the Trump administration for ongoing problems at the U.S.-Mexico border, citing its failure to cooperate and share critical information during the presidential transition period.
In an exclusive interview that aired Friday with “TODAY” show co-anchor Craig Melvin, Biden said his administration inherited “one god-awful mess at the border” from former President Donald Trump. He said it’s the result of “the failure to have a real transition — cooperation from the last administration, like every other administration has done.”
After the November election, Biden said that he had dispatched his transition team to meet with the officials leading the major departments across the government.
“The two departments that didn’t give us access to virtually anything were the immigration and the Defense Department,” said Biden, who added that his team didn’t know until he was sworn into office that Trump had fired many people from those departments and they were “understaffed considerably.”
Biden declined to call the border situation a crisis. He also acknowledged that his administration has struggled to reunite the children and families who had been separated under Trump policies.
“We don’t know yet where those kids are,” he said. “We’re trying like hell to figure out what happened. What happened to that child when he got separated? Where’d they go? Where are they?”…
Migrant Families Are Allowed Into U.S. for First Time in More Than a Year
Biden administration is unwinding ban on asylum-seeking families at ports of entry that Trump administration implemented at pandemic’s start
The Biden administration has started allowing some migrant families seeking asylum to enter the U.S. at legal border crossings for the first time since the pandemic began more than a year ago, according to people familiar with the process and government data reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
In the first three weeks of April, about 880 people traveling as families have been processed at border crossings and allowed to enter the U.S., according to internal Customs and Border Protection data reviewed by the Journal.
Though the Biden administration has said the border remains closed to nonessential travel and asylum seekers, it has been making exceptions for some families and unaccompanied children, government officials confirmed Friday.
The Trump administration closed legal border crossings to most traffic, including migrant families, last March under a public-health emergency order. Since then, just over 100,000 people traveling as families have been caught crossing the border illegally, a trend that has accelerated significantly in recent months.
The Biden administration has said it has no immediate plans to repeal the health order, known as Title 42, despite continuing litigation challenging its legality and claims by immigration and human-rights advocates that the policy endangers migrants. However, the administration is planning to revise the public-health order to clarify that it shouldn’t apply to minors, since children pose less of a risk of spreading Covid-19 or becoming severely ill from it, according to the government officials.
“The border is not open, and we continue to expel individuals and families,” a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said.
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