{"id":38576,"date":"2024-04-29T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/biden-and-mexicos-president-vow-combined-action-on-illegal-immigration\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T22:20:00","slug":"biden-and-mexicos-president-vow-combined-action-on-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/biden-and-mexicos-president-vow-combined-action-on-illegal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden and Mexico\u2019s President Vow Combined Action on Illegal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/29\/multimedia\/29dc-immig-top-hpvf\/29dc-immig-top-hpvf-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Biden and Mexico\u2019s President Vow Combined Action on Illegal Immigration\" title=\"Biden and Mexico\u2019s President Vow Combined Action on Illegal Immigration\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Biden and the president of Mexico on Monday vowed combined action to prevent illegal immigration as Mr. Biden remains under intense political pressure from all sides to address the impact of surging border crossings ahead of the presidential election this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a joint statement, Mr. Biden and President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador said they had ordered their national security aides to \u201cwork together to immediately implement concrete measures to significantly reduce irregular border crossings while protecting human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The statement, which followed a phone call between the two leaders on Sunday, did not specify any actions under consideration. A senior administration official declined to elaborate on what the United States and Mexico might \u201cimmediately implement\u201d and said only that the two sides would continue to have conversations about the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The lack of clarity leaves in limbo an issue that could be a deciding factor in whether Mr. Biden stays in the Oval Office for another four years. Polls of both Republicans and Democrats in recent months indicate that the situation at the border is a serious concern. And even some of the president\u2019s most fervent supporters in liberal cities are demanding that he do something to stanch the flow of migrants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president\u2019s latest plan to do that \u2014 with a highly restrictive immigration bill that had some bipartisan support \u2014 fell apart over the last several months as Republicans in the House blocked it. Mr. Biden had called for the legislation to be passed alongside financial aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, but when Congress finally reached a deal on the funding earlier this month, the border legislation was not included.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That leaves Mr. Biden with few options to address either global migration patterns that have changed dramatically or an American immigration system that both parties admit has been dysfunctional for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some activists and administration officials believe Mr. Biden is nearing a decision to announce an executive action that could impose dramatic new limits on asylum seekers, drawing on the same legal authority that President Donald J. Trump saw as the best way to keep immigrants out of the country when he was in office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Stephen Miller, the architect of Mr. Trump\u2019s immigration agenda, had long pushed for a broad interpretation of part of the federal code, known as 212(f), to enable the president to block migrants from even stepping foot across the border into the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People familiar with the discussions underway at the White House and in the Department of Homeland Security say officials are talking about a presidential proclamation that could cite that section of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, which provides the president authority to suspend immigration for anyone determined to be \u201cdetrimental to the interests of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Administration officials have refused to give any timeline on whether Mr. Biden could announce an order shutting down asylum at the border. The president said as much in an interview that aired on Univision on April 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s no guarantee that I have that power all by myself without legislation,\u201d Mr. Biden said. \u201cAnd some have suggested I should just go ahead and try it. And if I get shut down by the court, I get shut down by the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Border officials have struggled to contend with the surging numbers at the southern border, particularly in December, when border agents made nearly 250,000 apprehensions of migrants crossing illegally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since then, the Biden administration has worked closely with Mexico to ramp up enforcement. Those efforts appear to have paid off, for now. In February, border agents made more than 140,000 apprehensions, and in March the number was slightly lower \u2014 with over 137,000 arrests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The kind of executive action Mr. Biden has talked about worries people who advocate for migrants. They say the use of a blunt legal tool is likely to deny migrants the reasonable rights to claim refuge in the United States when they flee danger or torture in their home countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019ve seen how policies designed to deter and punish people who are coming to the U.S. to seek protection do not achieve their stated goal of stopping people from coming,\u201d said Robyn Barnard, senior director for refugee advocacy at Human Rights First, an immigrant advocacy group. \u201cMore of the same tired and unlawful policies that the former president Trump attempted are not smart or real solutions for the problems we face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Administration officials point to the fact that the president implemented a series of proposals aimed at increasing legal immigration into the United States from countries that have been hit hard by war, famine, climate change and political instability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But critics say those programs, while positive, could be overwhelmed by other actions that impose broad new restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe president should be looking at tools that have actually reduced unauthorized migration, like his own parole pathways, not another symbolic asylum ban,\u201d said Andrea Flores, a former Biden administration official and current vice president for immigration policy at FWD.us, an advocacy group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/29\/us\/politics\/biden-mexico-illegal-immigration.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden and the president of Mexico on Monday vowed combined action to prevent illegal immigration as Mr. Biden remains under intense political pressure from all sides to address the impact of surging border crossings ahead of the presidential election this year. 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