President Joe Biden said the United States will accept up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela under a new program while continuing to use a Trump-era rule to beef up border security to expel others enter illegally.
Biden said a humanitarian “parole” program used for Venezuelan migrants over the summer with the use of a smartphone app will be expanded to those migrating from Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua.
He said others will be turned away under Title 42 in hopes the message will get out and discourage them from making the dangerous trek through Central America into Mexico to reach the U.S. border.
“We should all recognize that as long as America is the land of freedom and opportunity, people are going to try to come here,” Biden said in remarks Tuesday afternoon. “And that’s what many of our ancestors did. And it’s no surprise that it’s happening again today.
“We can’t stop people from making the journey, but we can require them to come here in an orderly way.”
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The White House said it will be scaling up its anti-smuggling operations, and expanding coordination and support for border cities and non-governmental organizations. The administration said it is working with Mexico and governments across the Western Hemisphere to slow the tide of migrants traveling to the U.S. southern border.
“While these steps will help address some of the most acute challenges at the Southwest border, they will not solve all of the problems in an immigration system that has been broken for far too long,” Biden said, calling on Congress to come up with a comprehensive immigration plan.
The White House said in a statement that until it can remove Title 42 legally, it will continue to bolster new enforcement measures under it to increase security at the border and reduce the number of individuals crossing unlawfully between ports of entry.
“These measures will expand and expedite legal pathways for orderly migration and result in new consequences for those who fail to use those legal pathways,” the White House said. “They also draw on the success of the Venezuela initiative, which launched in October 2022 and has resulted in a dramatic drop in the number of Venezuelan nationals attempting to enter the United States unlawfully.”
Biden will visit El Paso, Texas on Sunday, a border city that has been so swamped with immigrants that Mayor Oscar Leeser declared a state of emergency last month.
He is also set to attend the North American Leaders’ Summit in Mexico City on Monday and Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the White House’s efforts to ditch Title 42, which allows authorities to quickly dispel asylum-seekers at the border.
Republicans used border security as one of the main campaign issues against Biden and the Democrats during the midterm elections. They are expected to continue to make that issue as long as the numbers of those seeking asylum at the southern border remain high.
“I’m pleased President Biden will finally visit our southern border — which has been completely surrendered to the cartels, smugglers, and human traffickers,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said in a Twitter post on Wednesday. “President Biden must go to our southern border and act swiftly to fix the crisis he created.”
Drug trafficking and immigration will likely be two of the main topics of discussion at the summit.
Only two years late in getting to the border. Joe Biden is quite possibly the laziest and most clueless president in US history. https://t.co/5fiiKFVhEY
— Nile Gardiner (@NileGardiner) January 4, 2023
No other country in the world would accept the surge of illegal immigration the Biden Administration has effectively invited.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) January 4, 2023
*no border visit from @VP in nearly two years* https://t.co/GhU8TfVX1r
— Congressman Jeff Van Drew (@Congressman_JVD) January 5, 2023
Seriously? Come on man https://t.co/bNmmXJL754
— David Aardsma (@TheDA53) January 5, 2023
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Is the ol’ boy starting to feel the pressure from the coming House Republican investigations/
WHAT investigation? With him owning the FBI/DOJ, what exactly does he (or more importantly his handlers), have to fear?
if his lips are moving HE IS LYING!
It’s an expansion of an alien program alright, alien to anything traditionally American and LEGAL. Thanks to President Prevaricator, the quota of 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, has already been illegally met, more than 20 times over, and should be shut down until time cures the blastng apart of our established quotas,,,like maybe for 10 years from the stated countries, not the next election. His specious administrations and pronouncements are proof positive that he believes WE THE PEOPLE to be not only blind, but stupid, which makes this weak sob sister totally unqualified to lead a strong nation.
HAVE we not accepted in, 2+ million already?
Yea, this corrupt puppet president is just a clone of
PinocchiObama and “Crooked Hil-Liar-y Clinton.
“We should all recognize that as long as America is the land of freedom and opportunity, people are going to try to come here,”
“as long as America is the land of freedom and opportunity” Is exactly what the treasonous woke socialist Democra Party and their politically controlled DOJ and FBI Gestapo are trying to stop and destroy and bring everybody under the control of the treasonous, woke, socialist, Democra Party.
When we elect Godless, dishonest, immoral, hateful self-righteous, self-serving political representatives like the corrupt, puppet Joe Biden, Tinkerbell PinocchiObama, the hateful Nancy Pelosi, racist Maxine Waters, Liars Adam Schiff & Chuck Schumer, Camel toe Kamala Harris, Bimbo Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Muslim Ilhan Omar, squaw Elizabeth Warren, Ayanna Pressley and the socialist Bernie Sanders who intentionally pit one group against another to divide the country and cultivate hate and distrust, you got to ask yourself; what are the motives of these type people? To lead the country into prosperity OR to gain control, stay in power any way possible and to dominate the citizens? No matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
WITH how our govt is intent on KILLING OFF freedom, i can’t see how they can keep BANDING THAT LIE around/
Please note that these countries have the highest numbers of criminals and guess where the rulers will send them knowing that if the criminals are found out, the criminals will not be welcomed back so now we are stuck with criminals.
Need to start calling in all those that were given future court dates and if a no show, they just become another illegal subject to quick deportation. Only in sanctuary states are they safe from being denounced by citizens so let’s get the ball rolling. The 2 million this administration let in will be the cause of millions and millions more voting for the false promises made and not kept but keeping the destruction of the USA on track.
Preach it.. WE NEED TO get hot and heavy about deportation…