Biden Says He ‘Intends’ International Summit: Southern Border for the first time

President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport that it’s his “intention” Visit the southern border This is the first time that I have been elected to office in almost two years.

Reporters asked Biden about the border while the president promoted his administration’s infrastructure agenda at Kentucky’s Brent Spence Bridge.

Fox News has a report on illegal immigration from Mexico that shows an alarming increase in the number of immigrants arriving in the United States. reported that Biden said he intends to visit the border during his trip to the North American Leaders’ Summit on January 9-10, where he has meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

According to sources, Biden wouldn’t make a policy announcement when he visited the border.

The president’s remarks come after he told reporters last month that “there are more important things going on” than visiting the U.S. southern border while in Arizona to tout Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s announcement of a second manufacturing chip plant in the Grand Canyon State.

Under Biden’s rule, his administration has done away with Trump-era immigration policies, which have resulted in a higher number of overall encounters at the border.

Pew Research reported According to the U.S. Border Patrol, encounters with migrants on the U.S.-Mexico frontier in the fiscal year 2021 exceeded the prior fiscal year’s total and were the highest annual total.

In fiscal year 2022 the United States had 2,378,944 border encounters, not counting the almost 600,000 known. “gotaways” Who escaped from custody completely.

Sources at Customs and Border Protection stated that there are an average of 6,858 border crossings each day.

According to some estimates, more than 4.5 Million encounters have occurred at the border since the Biden administration. Millions of these individuals have been allowed to enter the U.S.

Biden’s potential visit also comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 last week to keep the pandemic-era limit on immigration, referred to as Title 42, in place indefinitely, which allows officials to turn away migrants at the border to prevent the spread of COVID.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, the only dissenting conservative justice to join all of the Supreme Court’s liberal justices in Tuesday’s ruling, said, “the current border crisis is not a COVID crisis.”

“And courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency,” Gorsuch wrote. “We are a court of law, not policymakers of last resort.”

Customs and Border Protection officials advised lawmakers that around 50,000 foreigners were still waiting to cross into the United States when Title 42 ends.

Biden has called for the end of the pandemic-era policies. Immigrant advocates filed lawsuits to argue Title 42 is obsolete since COVID treatment have improved. “goes against American and international obligations to people fleeing to the U.S. to escape persecution.”

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