president biden end sanctions on cuba and venezuela. do you support that? so the you speak of different demographics arriving at our southern border. this speaks to the fact that the challenge of migration is not exclusive so the southern border and is, in fact, not exclusive to the western hemisphere. sandra: we are going to dip out for just a moment as the news conference continues at the white house. we ll also expect to hear from karine jean-pierre taking questions a moment from now as well. john, off the top saying we are a nation of immigration, immigrants and nation of laws, telling and speaking to the migrants do not risk your life and life savings only to be removed from the united states if you arrive here. pressed a moment ago on the statement. where are you just now sending that message and he said as we look at these live pictures, john, i want to be very clear, our borders are not open. john: he also said in
coordinators, and 1,500 department of defense personnel. we are delivering tougher consequences for unlawful entry. during the first half of this fiscal year, we returned, removed and expelled more than 665,000 people. we are conducting dozens of removal flights each week and we continue to increase them. just yesterday, we worked with the mexican government to expell nearly 1,000 venezuelans who did not take advantage of our available lawful pathways to enter the united states. we are bolstering the capacity of local governments and ngos. last week, we announced the distribution of an additional $332 million to support communities along the southern border and in the interior of our country. and we are going after the smugglers. leading an unprecedented law
foreign policy question broadly, quickly. u.s. has sanctions on a series of foreign nations, on cuba, on venezuela, on nicaragua, so the biden administration foreign policy make this situation worse? so, i m going to leave that to our foreign policy specialists but i will say this. the predicate of those principles are separate and apart from the immigration challenge we are facing. given the time you say it s going to take and based on what you are seeing now at the southern border and beyond in mexico, offer some details, paint a picture. what should americans in those border communities and beyond expect in the coming days and weeks? what s this going to look like? we could see very crowded, as we are now, we could see very crowded border patrol facilities. i cannot overstate the strain on our personnel and our facilities. but we know how to manage
border that come from countries where we don t have close working relationship, for example, we ve seen reporting of migrants coming as far from china, russia, syria, and then my second question i m going to try to ask peter s question a different way with some democrats urging that president biden end sanctions on cuba and venezuela, do you support that? so the you speak of different demographics arriving at our southern border. this speaks to the fact that the challenge of migration is not exclusive to the southern border and it s, in fact, not exclusive to the western hemisphere. we are seeing a global displacement of people that is the greatest since at least world war ii. the challenge of encountering individuals from countries that are to which it s not easy to remove people has been a long standing challenge that our
programs according to the needs that we need to meet. so you ll recall perhaps that in november we developed the parole process for venezuelans. that was then the most significant challenge. we pivoted in january to not only expand the program for venezuelans but also expand it for cubans, haitians and nicaraguans so we will meet the moment. and then on overcrowding, if the border patrol facilities are overcrowd zpd some migrants have to be released, does that send the very message you re trying to avoid, which is that people will be released into the interior? i have to say two things in response. number one, we cannot overstate the extraordinary talent and heroism of the united states border patrol and the personnel of the department of homeland security that are managing through an extraordinary challenge and doing so successfully, number one. number two, it is very important