Jennifer Griffin at Fox News revealed President Joe Biden’s administration approved sending 1,500 active troops to the border days before he lifts Title 42 on May 11.
Title 42 “allows for the rapid removal of migrants at the border” because of COVID.
Biden’s administration is ending the COVID national emergency on May 11.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has concerns the influx of illegal immigrants will grow once Title 42 goes away:
The U.S. soldiers would come from a variety of active duty Army units and would serve in mostly administrative and transport roles to free up law enforcement and Border Patrol, according to two senior U.S. officials familiar with the deliberations.Officials said the troop deployment would be similar to deployments to the border ordered by former President Donald Trump. The troops would be armed for self-defense but would not assist with law enforcement.Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has previously warned migrants that illegal entry into the U.S. “will result in removal.” The Biden administration is encouraging migrants to use the CBP One app to schedule appointments at points of entry where their asylum claims can be processed.
Biden has already angered the left with other immigration decisions. The troops will not help him:
In preparation for the end of Title 42, the Biden administration has developed a new asylum rule that will bar migrants from being eligible to claim asylum if they have crossed into the U.S. illegally, have not scheduled an appointment via the CBP One app, and have not claimed asylum in a country through which they previously passed.While [DHS Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas has stressed that the “presumption of ineligibility” will be rebuttable and there are exemptions made for some people, it has enraged some Democrats and immigration activists who claim it is similar to the Trump-era transit ban and that it encroaches on the right of anyone from anywhere in the world to claim asylum at the U.S. border.Sending troops to the border is likely to anger the left and draw more comparisons of Biden to Trump.
Deportations have gone down under Biden despite the White House declaring otherwise.
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