Child border crossings surge, put pressure on Biden administration
Migrant children and teenagers from the southern border of the United State wait to be processed after entering the site of a temporary holding facility Sunday, March 14, 2021, south of Midland, Texas. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas gestures during a media tour at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City Philadelphia on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Mayorkas was in Philadelphia for the media tour of the FEMA Community Vaccination Center. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
Department of Homeland Security officers talk to the driver of a bus carrying migrant children and teenagers from the southern border of the United States as it waits to enter the site of a temporary holding facility that opened on Sunday, March 14, 2021, south of Midland, Texas. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)
Joe Biden tells migrants don t come as criticism grows
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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2021, 10:02 AM IST
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Speaking hours after his head of homeland security defended the administration s imigration policies, Biden also shrugged off claims that his dismantling of former president Donald Trump s tough stance had encouraged the surge, pointing out that there had been similar surges in 2019 and 2020.
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It s the new normal for migrant families under President Joe Biden, after the harsh zero tolerance approach of Donald Trump dashed the dreams of hundreds of thousands hoping to escape endemic poverty and violence in Central America.
US President Joe Biden urged migrants not to come to the United States on Tuesday, as criticism mounted over a surge in people arriving at the southern border with Mexico including thousands of unaccompanied children.
A 17-year-old boy forced to either join a gang or lose his brother found himself detained at the border while trying to escape the gangs in Honduras. Hear what he says happened in those months he was detained before being reunited with his mom.
Charlene D Cruz, the director of Project Corazon, moved to Brownsville from Wisconsin near the end of 2019 to help migrants seeking asylum. She said prior to the pandemic, she was in Mexico every day helping hundreds or thousands of clients.
On Tuesday, she spotted one of her clients who she said has been waiting for years to be able to enter the U.S.
Jazz ShawPosted at 9:52 am on March 17, 2021
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This is another tidbit that popped up during Joe Biden’s interview with George Stephanopoulos. (The same one where he claimed that he supported filibuster “reform.”) To his credit, Stephanopoulos actually asked Biden about the crisis on the southern border and followed up with additional questions. This segment ran for roughly six minutes, but the highlight of the discussion was when the host asked Biden if he could say to the people in El Salvadore, Guatemala, and Honduras, “Don’t come.” Biden quickly responded by claiming that he could say that “quite clearly” and that was his message to any aspiring illegal immigrants. (ABC News)
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