Biden Admin Finally Starting to Offer Ideas Two Years Into Immigration Crisis

When Joe Biden was running for president, his campaign’s message, though not explicit, was pretty clear: The borders were opening again.

That has translated into a surge at the border as Biden’s policies have made it easier for immigrants to cross (especially after trying to gut border patrolAmong other suggestions, Biden felt that those who tried to cross the border admitted that they were inviting them to America. Mexico, a corrupt and failing nation-state, won’t do anything.

We are now, 25 months later, when Biden was inaugurated, and his administration has finally attempted to do something concrete to stop the surge at the borders. According to Reuters.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is developing a sweeping bill that would revamp the country’s asylum system to speed up the resolution of claims in large-scale processing centers at the border with Mexico, two U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials told Reuters.

According to two sources who asked anonymity to discuss internal discussions, the effort was born out of ongoing Biden administration talks to reimagine asylum. Border crossings have reached record levels and immigration courts are facing steep backlogs. They said that U.S. officials visited Europe last month, with a stop in the Netherlands to inspect systems.

Finally, substance for an Administration that has barely offered a Band-Aid over our gaping wound. Although the ideas aren’t terrible, they won’t be enough.

The legislation – which remains in a conceptual phase – could also include different procedures for asylum seekers based on nationality, with migrants from countries with typically higher rates of approval given more freedom of movement while they await the outcome of their cases, the sources said.

According to the officials, those with higher chances of success could be placed in apartments or other less restrictive settings than detention centers. If a migrant is less likely to receive asylum, they could be quickly processed and deported. According to the report, 53% of Chinese asylum applicants won their cases at immigration court in 2022, while only 8% of Hondurans did. government data.

“It’s a total rethink of the approach and is not constrained by current laws,” One of the DHS officials stated this.

It is important to remember that this bill is a concept at the moment. It is not possible to review or vet the copy, let alone send it to Congress. This makes it difficult for us to know if the Biden administration officials are really serious or just trying make it seem like they’re doing something.

But the fact of the matter is that the Biden team is still wholly unequipped to handle this crisis – hell, they don’t even want to call it a “crisis.” They say there is a minor issue at the border but insist everything is fine. It is difficult to believe them when they claim they are trying to fix an issue that their border patrol has been telling it is a chaos mess for the past two years.

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