Biden considering detaining migrant families

OAN Roy Francis
UPDATED 12:54 PM PT – Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Biden’s administration examines options to deal with the increase in border crossings, as COVID-19 is ending.

Officials in the Biden administration say that detaining migrants from their families crossing into the United States without authorization is one option being considered. After officials announced that they had stopped detaining families at detention centers until 2021, referring to the practice as “detention without trial”. This would represent a significant shift in direction by the current administration. “inhumane.”

Homeland Security states that if families need to be taken into custody, they will be kept for a brief period while their case is processed through the courts.

Biden’s current policy is to let families that cross into America through Mexico, and tell them to come to court later. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents now have holding facilities that can only be used to detain single individuals who crossed illegally.

Officials have sought stronger and more efficient ways to decrease the flow of people crossing the border, as the numbers of immigrants reached record levels towards the close of 2022.

In general, there has been a decrease in the numbers of immigrants since President Barack Obama took office. Joe Biden had announced in January Cubans from Haiti, Nicaraguans or Venezuelans will be returned to Mexico, if they cross illegally.

Biden’s administration declared in February it would refuse asylum to any immigrant who crosses the U.S.-Mexico border, without first applying for asylum in the country they have passed through. The Trump administration had introduced this policy, which was met with major backlash. It never became effective due to the blocking of a court.   

Both the Trump administration and Obama used Texas’ family detention centers as immigration courts handled the cases of immigrants.

Backlash was received by immigration advocates when the notion of again detaining families was raised. Many were shocked that Trump’s policies would be reintroduced by the Trump administration.

“I’m alarmed by news reports that the administration is considering reinstating family detention policies,” Bennie Thompson, (D-Miss.According to the House Homeland Security Committee’s ranking member, he said. “Not only are these policies cruel and harmful to children, but they don’t prevent families from traveling to the United States.”

Karine Jean Pierre, White House Press Secretary refused to say whether or not the White House was considering the policy or whether it would make sense for the president to keep families in captivity. Her opposition to the comparison of what Biden has been doing with what Trump used to be doing was also strong.

″A lot of people have compared what the president is doing, is either extending what Trump did or being very Trump-like,” she said. “This isn’t what’s happening.

Administrators have declared that the COVID crisis will be ended on May 11, 2012.^Th. Title 42, which was linked to the national crisis, will also be repealed on that day. But, the Supreme Court will be considering whether a Republican proposal to repeal this policy is acceptable.

After Title 42 has been lifted, there’s no border policy that will address the migration of migrants to the south.