Biden in a bind as migrants swell at the border
08 Mar 2021
A day after an SUV packed with migrants crashed in Imperial County last week, leaving 13 dead, police in southern Mexico encountered a disturbing scene: more than 200 US-bound Central Americans, a quarter of them children without adult
Patrick J. McDonnell,
Tribune News Service
A day after an SUV packed with migrants crashed in Imperial County last week, leaving 13 dead, police in southern Mexico encountered a disturbing scene: more than 200 US-bound Central Americans, a quarter of them children without adult supervision, crammed inside a tractor trailer.
The two incidents — the fatal collision in California, and the discovery of the migrant-jammed big rig more than 1,000 miles away — dramatise the challenge facing the Biden administration as US officials struggle with a conundrum: How to dismantle Trump-era immigration restrictions, as Biden has promised to do, without triggering a mass convergence on the Southwest border.