Construction workers are building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border on Jan. 11, 2019.
If elected president, Biden would dramatically change current U.S. immigration policy, and is currently planning to dismantle the border wall President Trump is building along the U.S.-Mexico border and end related agreements with Central America.
In a statement this week, Biden and his advisers said they plan to dismantle Trump’s border wall, end the “Stay in Mexico” policy and the Trump administration’s asylum cooperation agreements with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, which allow federal immigration officials to quickly return people who fail to meet the asylum threshold to their home countries, conservative media outlet Breitbart News reported on Tuesday (Dec. 22).
Biden said at Tuesday’s news conference, “The last thing that needs to be stressed is that we need to immediately stop the asylum pathway that is now operating, which is keeping 2 million people on our border. It’s a matter of putting up a guardrail.
While not immediately ending the “Stay in Mexico” program, Biden’s White House Domestic Policy Council nominee Susan Rice and national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden will end the program at some point in the future, while urging future Mexican and Central American border crossers to be patient, The Washington Post reported.
Sullivan emphasized that, as currently agreed, instead of helping to create alternative pathways to protection, the “Asylum Cooperation Agreement” denies desperate asylum seekers the right to apply for asylum in the United States.
“Immigrants and asylum seekers should never buy into the ideas being peddled in the region that the border will suddenly be fully open on day one to process everyone’s (asylum claims). Rice said it will take several months to develop the ability to reopen fully.
More than 67,000 illegal border crossers were arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border in November, more than double the number arrested in the same month last year, compared with only about 33,500 arrests in November 2019, Breitbart News reported. –
Mark Morgan, acting director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), noted last week that Biden is sending a message to immigrants around the world that “we have an open border.
In the first two months of fiscal year 2021, which began Oct. 1, the Border Patrol apprehended nearly 135,000 border crossers. In those two months, the number of arrests hit a seven-year high.
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