“It would be very hypocritical of me to say that people are not welcome,” the mayor said. “But do we need the infrastructure and the ability to accommodate people? Yes. Do we have it? No.”
The mayor’s communications director, Stephanie Severino, said Suarez traveled to the border so he could “witness the border crisis firsthand” and to speak about Miami, which she described as a “city where immigrants have thrived.”
The Biden administration is weighing unilateral action without Congress to make it harder for migrants to pass the initial asylum screening and easier to deport recently arrived migrants.
The Biden administration is weighing unilateral action without Congress to make it harder for migrants to pass the initial asylum screening and easier to deport recently arrived migrants.