People set candles in memory of the deceased migrants after a fire at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico on March 28, 2023 in …
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But what the fire reveals is broken immigration policies in the U.S. and Mexico. Mexico is detaining and holding migrants, including those expelled from the U.S. They don’t have the facilities or the resources to do this humanely.
Under U.S. immigration law, migrants fleeing persecution can request asylum regardless of how they arrive on U.S. soil. But the Biden administration proposed a more restrictive immigration rule to take effect in May.
U.S. President Joe Biden and First lady Jill Biden gesture during a welcome ceremony as part of the ‘2023 North American Leaders’ Summit at Pa…
Biden has not done enough on immigration. The Biden administration promised to get rid of the Trump-era Title 42, a presidential executive order that allows U.S. immigration officials to turn away migrants at the U.S. borders without a hearing. Immigrant advocates called the program a clear slam at immigrants, and while the current administration says it wants to see it end as it wends its way through the courts, the Biden White House has proposed to deal with an influx of immigrants by allowing a certain number of migrants each month – 30,000 – from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela on “parole” if they pass a background check and if they have financial sponsors here in the states. The White House has not said why migrants from those particular countries would be allowed in and others left out.
January 10, 2023, Mexico City, Mexico: United States President, Joe Biden speaks during a briefing conference after meeting with Lopez Obrador…
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) speaks with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) during a press conference on legislation to make the Deferred Action for Childho…
The massive $1.7 trillion – trillion with a T – bill of which the farmworkers and DREAMers legislation would have been a part of includes a funding boost for the U.S. Border Patrol, which is in line to hire several hundred new agents for what the agency says is an expected influx at the U.S.-Mexico border if Title 42 ends.