The Biden administration pulls out a page from former President Donald Trump’s book, and reaches an agreement with the Northern Triangle countries to militarize their borders in an effort to curb the flow of immigrants.
Speaking to reporters during her daily session, White House press secretary Jen Psaki discussed the deal hours after a Biden administration official confirmed it.
“So Mexico made the decision to keep 10,000 troops on the southern border, which was twice the number of daily introductions of migrants,” the top White House spokeswoman said. “Guatemala brought 1,500 police and military personnel up to the southern border with Honduras and they have agreed to establish 12 checkpoints along the migration route. Honduras reached 7,000 police and military to disperse a large contingent of immigrants. “
“As with any diplomatic discussion, these discussions take place at various levels, and certainly, as you know, we have an envoy who has discussions with the region,” he continued.
When pressured, Paski declined to say when the deal was made, at one point, acknowledging that the answer was probably yes to a question about whether the deal occurred in recent weeks.
The administration’s withdrawal from Trump’s border policies has led to a flood of illegal Central American and Mexican immigrants on the U.S. border, including thousands of unaccompanied children.
Central Americans seeking refuge in the northern triangle countries (El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala) have taken these political measures, as well as the overwhelmingly welcoming tone of Democrats, as a sign that President Biden is inviting them to cross the border.
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Insisting that the border was not facing a crisis, National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in early March that the problems the agency was facing should be blamed on the previous administration.
The data, however, overwhelmingly show that migrants flooded the border because they believed Biden would welcome them with open arms.
Late last month, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blamed the new president for the crisis, arguing that the “expectations” he left left migrants with the perception that they would be left in the United States.
The current president’s new agreement echoes the Trump administration’s 2019 agreement with Mexico, separate from the signing of the “Rest in Mexico” policy, in which the country agreed to deploy its national guard in the Guatemalan border to stop the caravan of immigrants heading to the US.
At that time, López Obrador sent 25,000 troops to the northern and southern borders.
Under the new Biden agreement, according to Home Affairs Council member Tyler Moran, each country has agreed to “put more troops on its own border.”
“This will not only prevent traffickers, smugglers and cartels who take advantage of children traveling here, but also to protect these children,” said Moran, who holds the title of special assistant to the president for immigration. MSNBC in an interview Monday.
With publishing cables