Mishpacha traveled to the Mexican border to put a human face on the crisis playing out just 500 feet from the US
Photos: Yossi Percia
On Site Report by Yochonon Donn, Tijuana, Mexico
Luis Morenas stared at me in disbelief when I asked why he left his homeland of Honduras to spend months in a Mexican shantytown waiting to cross the border into the United States.
“El presidente gave a promise on February 19 that this was going to be open,” he said simply, referring to President Joe Biden. “The president made a promise that he was going to help the immigrants. We are just waiting.”
Fact check: Is Biden immigration policy causing border surge of minors?
Brandon Mulder, PolitiFact Texas
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TOPSHOT - A young female minor walks over others as they lie inside a pod for females at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by the US Customs and Border Protection, (CBP), in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021. - The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods had more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration on Tuesday for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility at the border for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping. (Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills / POOL / AFP) (Photo by DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS
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Biden s Executive Actions: President Unilaterally Changes Immigration Policy
By Robert Law
on March 15, 2021
Robert Law is the director of regulatory affairs and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. He would like to thank Josh Timko for his extensive research and analysis that informed the substance of this Backgrounder on the Biden immigration executive actions.
President Biden issued over three dozen executive actions during his first month in office, many of them focused on immigration. Some of the immigration executive actions revoked Trump administration immigration policies and introduced sweeping new policies, while others were more messaging documents with little-to-no practical impact. While the pace of immigration-specific executive actions has slowed recently, it is expected that the Biden administration will continue to rely on executive actions as a tool to reshape immigration policy throughout his term. This
<p class="xmsonormal"><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/8727887/usa border sign 350x219.jpg" alt=""USA Border" sign" class="ImageFloatRight"/>An immigration reform activist says Joe Biden's amnesty and open borders policies are a "magnet" for more fatal incidents along the southern border.</p>