Mexico: Joe Biden Facing Major Headache with Soaring Migrants Crossing

President Joe Biden is resolving the immigration crisis in the United States behind closed doors, urging the Mexican government to take in migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. However, the appeal seemed to have garnered pushback from Mexico, citing various problems and concerns on why they would not and could not take in migrants from the said countries.

Meanwhile, Democrats, under Biden's leadership, are also facing the consequences of their welcoming stance on immigration and border crossing.

President Joe Biden Enacting Title 42 Despite Publicly Claiming to Overturn It

An exclusive report from Reuters says that the United States, through President Joe Biden, is enacting Title 42, the same COVID-19 expulsion order he promised to end from the Trump administration.

Title 42 was issued in 2020 by the now-embattled former President Donald Trump, allowing the country's border authorities to "rapidly expel" migrants to Mexico or other countries without being given a chance to seek asylum in the county.

However, Biden's move to overturn Title 42 has been unsuccessful, with a Louisiana judge blocking it despite U.S. health officials' insistence otherwise last May.

Democrats have been expressing their strong opposition to the said COVID-19 expulsion order, pointing out the danger that the move would pose to the migrants.

However, it seemed like Biden, who has publicly advocated for its removal before, is actually making use of it now to resolve the immigration crisis in the country.

Biden Urges Mexico to Accept More Migrants

Sources close to the Biden administration have revealed that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has visited Mexico City to escalate the concerns about the influx of border crossings in the country.

However, the state visit was not that successful, as the country did not promise any definite actions to help the United States, even describing the deal to be an "uphill battle."

The refusal of the Mexican government to take in immigrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela was substantiated. Mexico noted that they do not want to take in migrants from the said countries because those countries have refused to take in deportation flights as well.

Comparatively, Mexico is more lenient in accepting back returnee migrants who are Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador nationals, accounting for almost 300,000. This is way higher than the 9,000 Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.

On the other hand, Biden and his administration are still exploring alternative ways to mitigate the immigration crisis by asking other neighboring nations to accept more returnee migrants.

For instance, Biden wants Panama to accept Venezuelans back to their country if the said migrants pass en route to them to travel to the U.S. Data shows that around 70,000 Venezuelans crossed Panama through its Colombian border just this August alone.

Meanwhile, a number of Venezuelans were flown to the Dominican Republic earlier this year but were halted indefinitely because of pushback from Democrats.

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Written by: Ivan Korrs

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