Texas, United States.
US President Joe Biden is facing growing pressure from the United States republicans by the increase of the arrival of migrants, Especially minors, on the border with Mexico, a situation that the opposition describes as the first migration crisis of his term.
The leader of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, Leads this Monday a delegation of congressmen who will visit the border to Texas to denounce the increase in the arrival of migrants.
Rossa Tabora, a 25-year-old Guatemalan, crossed the border irregularly shaped a Texas with her one-year-old son to reunite with her husband who lives in Virginia.
“In my country no job, no money “, He told AFP over the weekend. For her the fact that Biden being in government made a difference. “My husband told me to come now,” she added.
Close to 200 irregular migrants they passed by the Brownsville bus station in Texas, near the border with Mexico, According to local associations.
In February, about 100,000 people were arrested in the border on -among them 9,457 unaccompanied minors-, an increase of 28% compared to January, according to the authorities.
To cope with the flow of minors, Alejandro Mayorkas, Head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the FEMA emergency agency will support the work of temporarily house children, Amid criticism that authorities held them back for long periods in crowded facilities.
“Out of control”
The increase in the arrival of people to the border iIt is a political challenge for Biden, who seeks to reverse many of the policies against the immigration imposed by its predecessor, Donald Trump.
the president Democrat wants to process an ambitious immigration reform in Congress, which could pave the way for the citizenship per millions of undocumented.
In Washington, Republicans report that there is one “Crisis” at the border, but the White House refuses to accept this rhetoric.
For the leader of the minority republican of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, “this crisis is is getting out of control “.
Republicans fear the arrival of good weather with the boreal summer will increase the flow at the border. The mayor of the town of Uvalde, in Texas, Has indicated that he is waiting for the arrival of among 25,000 to 30,000 migrants for the summer season.
“In our area we are not equipped to handle this, “the mayor indicated.” Our resources are diminished by the pandemic and we also had the snowstorm a few weeks ago “.
For the government of Biden, Which decided to suspend agreements signed by Trump as the program “Stay in Mexico,” which forced asylum seekers to wait on the other side of the border, and reinstated the CAM initiative to accommodate Central American minors with parents with legal residence in the United Statess, the message is that “the border is closed “ a la irregular immigration.
Last week, the press secretary of the White house admitted that this is a “huge challenge” and a central issue for the president, but ruled out using the word crisis.
“We are adopting policies to deal with what we perceive as one human challenge at the border“, Added the spokeswoman of the executive.
A migratory reform
On the weekend, the Democratic senator Chris Murphy defended the government on Fox News “claiming that the president” inherited “from the Trump administration a “disaster“On migration and is trying to fix one “human” way.
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for the republicans, The announcement that the Democratic president seeks to give way to citizenship near dand 11 million immigrants irregulars generated a call effect.
The extensive migration reform announced by the democrats by mid-February it is not on the calendar for the next ballots, an indication that party leaders are unsure of the necessary votes.
In the meantime, the party wants to vote this week in the House on a bill to pave the way for the naturalization of the “dreamers, Young people who arrived as children in the United States in the company of their parents, and agricultural workers.