Arkansas U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R) called on President Biden to reimpose three Trump-era border policies. Critics accuse the Biden Administration‘s policies of attracting large numbers of illegal immigrants to the United States.
A senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection official told Fox News that migrant children are arriving at the southern U.S. border faster than they can be processed, including being turned over to their sponsors, and that the Biden administration has repeatedly denied a “crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border. “.
Cotton told Fox Sunday News this week, “The Biden administration has been saying that Trump has somehow dismantled the immigration system. That’s false. It’s the Biden administration that has dismantled three highly effective policies.”
He called on Biden to expand the public health emergency for all illegal immigrants, including minors, and to reinvigorate the “stay in Mexico” policy and the “safe third country” agreements with countries like Guatemala.
They lifted the public health emergency order related to minors,” Cotton said. Well, guess what we have at the border now? There are more minors. It’s not surprising.”
In February, the Biden administration began accepting Central American immigrants into the United States who were waiting in Mexico for their immigration cases to be processed. That means the “Stay in Mexico” deal is winding down.
The third policy Cotton suggested was a “safe third country” agreement, the U.S. Asylum Cooperation Agreement (ACA) with Guatemala.
The Safe Third Country Agreement with countries like Guatemala,” Cotton said, “says that if you go through a country that you are not seeking asylum in (a third country), you have to apply for asylum in the first country that you go through. That’s the international norm.” “Joe Biden could implement all three (policies) this week if he wanted to.”
According to Customs and Border Protection, they processed 100,441 cases in February, a 28 percent increase from January. Of those, 19,246 were Family members, 9,457 were unaccompanied children and 71,598 were single adults.
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