President Joe Biden is attempting to reach an agreement with Mexico that would allow hundreds of thousands of migrants to enter the nation legitimately while deporting tens of thousands of non-Mexican illegal immigrants across the southern border.
A breakthrough for the president, who hopes to resolve the escalating border problem before the 2019 election.
Biden has previously stated that the inability to repatriate migrants back to their home country was a major factor in the recent high number of illegal border crossings.
Non-Mexican migrants who unlawfully cross into the United States would be repatriated to Mexico under the new policy. According to sources cited by the Washington Post, the agreement has not been finalized, but Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been amenable to negotiations.
The agreement is predicated on Vice President Biden increasing the parole process, which expedites work permits for migrants with sponsors in the United States, which might lead to huge increases in legal immigrants. Title 42, the border policy from the epidemic era used to remove migrants, is set to expire this spring after having been previously extended.
Dois Meissner, a senior immigration official in the Clinton administration, told the Washington Post that the approach would be unusual and might be a “game changer” for Biden and border security.
Meissner stated, “I believe we’ve entered a new era and a new frontier.”
The soon-to-be-announced plan to expand Department of Homeland Security police is designed to create a ‘presumption against asylum eligibility’ and penalize migrants who enter the United States or nations they pass through illegally.
According to sources, the deportations will be carried out using a “expedited removal” procedure, and Mexico will accept deportees based on their country of origin.
According to the Post, Mexico would allow migrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Cuba.
Non-Mexican migrants who illegally enter the United States would be subject to arrest, detention, deportation to Mexico, a five-year ban from entering the United States, and the possibility of jail time and felony charges for a second illegal crossing.
In order to avoid becoming a’safe third country,’ Mexico had traditionally been averse to accepting migrants expelled from the United States. However, President Obrador has shown a willingness to accept migrants if Mexico is able to control which countries they are from.
In order to avoid becoming a’safe third country,’ Mexico had traditionally been averse to accepting migrants expelled from the United States. However, President Obrador has shown a willingness to accept migrants if Mexico is able to control which countries they are from.
The Biden administration has stated that the initiative will divert migrants away from illegal and perilous entry ways and toward safer, more strictly regulated legal entrances.
One of these legal alternatives is the parole process, which allows migrants with sponsors in the United States to enter and travel across the country, as well as obtain a two-year work permit expeditiously.
According to the Post, Biden hopes to extend the parole system and utilize it to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants to enter the nation lawfully.
Critics have asserted that the Biden administration will abuse the parole system by using it for mass migrations rather than the intended case-by-case basis. On January 24, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit against the expansion of the parole procedure.
The Biden administration defended their actions, claiming they are essential to the new agreement with Mexico.
The Justice Department stated, “These parole processes were crucial to Mexico’s decision to begin accepting the expulsion or removal of noncitizens from these four countries who attempt to enter the United States at the southern border without utilizing the new pathways.”
Mexico has not commented on the most recent occurrences.
Roberto Velasco, the Foreign Ministry’s main officer for North America, told The Post that there are continuing discussions regarding the various possible possibilities, given the shifting legal, policy, and human mobility landscape. There are currently no decisions about the next stages for our migratory cooperation.
In the meantime, the Mexican government stated on Monday that it opposes a potential revival of the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, which compelled asylum seekers to wait for US hearings in Mexico.
President Biden has attempted to terminate the initiative, which was initiated by the Trump administration and is currently on hold.
However, US states such as Texas and Missouri filed a lawsuit to keep the program operating, and a US judge halted Biden’s effort in December, stating that the Department of Homeland Security had failed to adequately demonstrate why the policy was useless and should be canceled.
The foreign ministry of Mexico did not explain its disagreement. Activists contend that the program, formally known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), places migrants in perilous border cities where they suffer kidnapping and extortion threats.
If the Mexican government maintains its objection, U.S. officials would likely have to decide whether asylum applicants can remain in the nation while their cases are assessed or make other arrangements to remove them.
According to the foreign ministry, approximately 74,000 migrants passed through Mexico under the program when former President Donald Trump was in office. Under Biden, only 7,500 are employed.
Marsha Espinosa, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, told Reuters on Monday that the Biden Administration will continue to seek judicial termination of MPP.
Espinosa noted, “Our ability to implement MPP pursuant to court order has always been contingent on the Mexican government’s willingness to accept returns under MPP.”
WHAT is Section 42?
The Title 42 border restrictions are a public health order that permitted U.S. officials to deport the vast majority of migrants, including those claiming asylum from persecution.
They were adopted during the pandemic and are currently slated to expire on Wednesday, after having been extended many times.
However, the number of people seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border is at its highest level in two decades, with an even greater influx anticipated if the order imposed during the pandemic is lifted.
Because Title 42 has no legal or criminal penalties, many of them were repeat offenders.
The application of Title 42 power has been inconsistent across nationalities.
Mexico has committed to accept migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico, as well as a limited number of migrants from Cuba and Nicaragua. High expenditures, deteriorating diplomatic ties, and other factors have made it increasingly challenging to return migrants from other nations by air.
Title 42 is one of the two remaining significant anti-asylum initiatives from the Trump administration.
The rarely-used public health order that allows border police to swiftly remove practically everyone encountered along the Southwest border.
In April, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether the administration may require asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico for immigration court hearings. This case commenced in Amarillo, Texas, before a second judge nominated by Trump.
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