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Biden faces competing pressures as he tries to ease the migrant crisis

Biden Faces Competing Pressures as He Tries to Ease the Migrant Crisis

The situation provides ammunition to conservative Republicans who are vowing to shut down the government unless Congress agrees to harsh new anti-immigration measures.

migrants from crossing. the doj told abbott to remove them, he refused. the geo state said the various or not only unlawful, but to present a humanitarian danger. advocates say they are death traps. joining us now, axios politics reporter this stef kight, and krish vignarajah, president and ceo of the lutheran immigration and refugee service. previously served as policy director to first lady michelle obama. so welcome. really glad to have you both. steph did get a little more into your reporting, we mentioned just a moment ago. what is the biden administration doing, and what's been the financial challenges that dhs is facing? >> well, essentially at this point in time, the department of homeland security is billions of dollars short to get through the end of this fiscal -- largely because of their efforts along the border. so they have already had to

president biden makes moves that are angering immigrant rights advocates, none of this is going to satisfy the gop base, nor the bad faith actors on the right to do not want to be a nation of immigrants. just this week, the house gop passed a new bill going even further to eliminate asylum claims. there is no chance of passing the democrat let's senate. so the governor ron desantis just signed a new law cracking down on brace for undocumented migrants and for american citizens who are in community with them. as you watch all of this frantic coverage about the end of title 42, please remember, this isn't about any one single policy. this is about a global humanitarian crisis. moms and dads, and babies. this is about how we rise to meet this moment and who we are as a nation. what does it say about us? if we don't offer safe haven to those in crisis? i've shown merkel has a -- beacon of hope. who was it that we want to be? joining me now, krish

we do know what we would need to do in order to do this correctly, if the political will was there. so my concern in part is that they're people who are gonna be sitting around their dining room tables and they're gonna be -- even good mean people, are gonna throw their hands up and say, it's just too hard! this is a problem that is intractable. there is no way to solve it. what would it look like, krish, to do this correctly? >> you're absolutely right. the so-called crisis is not that we have migration in our hemisphere. the crisis has been our failure to find ways to help them. and you know, in my mind, some of what we've seen in the biden administration is that word, in terms of increasing the legal capacity of migration, the refugees too resettled from the western hemisphere. making sure family reunification doesn't require families to come to our border that they can actually have in country processing. when we have 10 million jobs that are going unfilled, --

vignarajah, ceo of immigration and refugee services, also a former policy director for michelle obama. and lindsay toczylowski, executive director of the immigrants defender law center. ladies, it is so good to see you both. krish, it is -- important to understand how we got here. broadly speaking, what is driving this increase in migration all across the globe? >> as you said, it is everything from foreign violence, increased persecution, the pandemic, and of course climate disaster. this was a year where we saw the ukrainian crisis, and the afghan evacuation. and in our region, obviously there's political instability in countries like venezuela and haiti, which has led to mass migration. >> lindsey, there are already more than 1 million pending asylum applications in the united states. the average asylum case takes more than four years to complete.

we are seeing deterrence faced policies, resurrection of failed policies of the trump era like the asylum ban, like the expansion of expedited processing which will -- and extradited removal, which will essentially make it so that for some migrants, some children, some families, will be returned back, or deported back, within sometimes 72 hours. after just a couple of phone calls with asylum officers and potentially immigration judge. that is not a functioning asylum system. that is not meaningful access to protection. and these policies are just more of the same failed policies that we've seen time and time again. we are certainly not meeting the moment or taking advantage of the opportunity to create a welcoming system. >> here's the thing, krish, there is the reality that this is enormously complex, and then there's also the reality that

that they are going to be satisfied with. keeping cruelty on human beings seeking safety when -- asylum seekers, by the nature of what they're doing, are trying to avail themselves of the legal pathway. they're trying to avail them selves in another system. they're literally raising the hands at the border right now and saying i am asking to be processed. i'm asking for protection. i'm asking to do this legally. and what we see time and time again is a system that is set up with obstacles. whether it is the cvp one up, whether it is trapping people in between border wall since we saw on sunday go this week and i saw personally esther day. this type of treatment that is meant to make it impossible for people to actually get protection, none of this is ever going to satisfy the anti immigrant side. >> yeah, i mean, krish, to

more of the same failed policies that we've seen time and time again. we are certainly not meeting the moment or taking advantage of the opportunity to create a welcoming system. >> here's the thing, krish, there is the reality that this is enormously complex, and then there's also the reality that we do know what we would need to do in order to do this correctly, if the political will was there. so my concern in part is that they're people who are gonna be sitting around their dining room tables and they're gonna be -- even good mean people, are gonna throw their hands up and say, it's just too hard! this is a problem that is intractable. there is no way to solve it. what would it look like, krish, to do this correctly? like, krish to do this cor>> you're absolut. the so-called crisis is not that we have migration in our hemisphere. the crisis has been our failure to find ways to help them. and you know, in my mind, some of what we've seen in the biden administration is that word, in terms of increasing the legal