Recently Biden has begun to take some heat for the way he has been handling immigration. Since he has began admitting immigrants, there are people waiting in Mexico for their immigration cases to be processed. Due to this, the GOP wrote a letter to Biden claiming that families waiting in Mexican border towns are sleeping in the streets, under bridges, and in dry ditches. The Republicans are stating that by Biden letting people wait for their cases to get processed in these terrible conditions he is essentially creating a COVID breeding ground. Sleeping in the streets presents a health concern in general, but with COVID people are more likely to get sick in those conditions. Biden has began to wind down Trumps Migrant Protection Protocols which has 25,000 people waiting to get into the United States. In the Republicans letter, they warn Biden that he needs to make some changes or else the pandemic is just going to get worse and continue to spread.
On the bright side, a limited number of asylum seekers are going to start being allowed in at border crossings in San Diego. Although Biden may not be handling the conditions at these border towns, he at least is starting to take some action on the plans he had made. There is also talk of Biden seeking to create a bill that would increase legal immigration, speed up consideration of asylum seekers, take steps to secure the country’s borders and ports of entry, and it would strike the word “alien” from federal law in favor of “noncitizen.” Biden still has a long way to go, but at least progress can start to be seen.
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