Border communities reimbursement bill evokes memories of 2019 asylum-seeker crisis Algernon D'Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-News Stuck in Mexico for the past year, asylum seekers remain at the Arizona border Replay Video This story was updated at 8:15 a.m. LAS CRUCES – On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced he was rescinding his predecessor's declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, a move that allowed the Trump Administration to divert billions of dollars appropriated for other purposes toward border wall construction. While apprehensions at the border by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol have increased markedly since December, the Biden Administration has moved to reverse former President Donald Trump's immigration policies and begin reunifying migrant children separated from their parents or guardians at the border.