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A Customs and Border Protection intelligence alert dated April 16 states that the historic surge of migrants at the border is being driven in part by the perception that President Biden will allow migrants to stay. As Yahoo News points out, that’s at odds with claims the White House has made about what is driving the surge.
The alert, dated April 16, appears at odds with the White House’s messaging on the border crisis, which maintains that the increasing number of migrants is being largely driven by corruption, economic chaos and violence in the Northern Triangle countries — Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — rather than by more lenient policies. The Biden administration has promised to focus on what Vice President Kamala Harris has called “the root causes of migration,” including economic hardship.