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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2021 21:31:16 GMT
 Last week, hundreds of Central American migrants showed up at the U.S. border with Mexico wearing t-shirts that had the Biden 2020 style logo with the words, “Biden, Please Let Us Un!” written across the front. To date, it is not known where these latest arrivals at the border got the shirts from. Many Americans are speculating that a nefarious donor with political ties may have distributed the shirts, but there’s no proof of that speculation. What is known is that in the days since those photographs were spread across the country, several t-shirts and merch vendors popped up selling replicas of the shirts. Breaking News: If you don't agree with the government, you want people to die, Biden official says The Biden, Please Let Us In slogan has essentially become a battle cry for both sides of the political spectrum. On the right, the slogan is being used as an attempt to mock the relaxed border policies of Joe Biden. On the left, it is a heartfelt message of compassion towards illegal immigrants and their troubles faced along the way to America. A simple Google Search of the slogan will show several vendors selling different variations of the shirts. You can even buy baby onesies and other garments with the slogan. While the path for these migrants towards become citizens is cloudy at best, one thing is clear, capitalism is alive and well in America. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2021 5:43:41 GMT
The number of undocumented migrants reaching the US-Mexico border has hit the highest level in more than 20 years in the latest sign of the humanitarian crisis facing the Biden administration. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it caught 180,034 migrants, mostly single adults, in May. The number was up slightly from 178,854 in April and 172,000 in March.  It was the biggest monthly total since April 2000 with increasing numbers coming from outside Central America. This includes countries like Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and even some African nations.  Migrants detained at the US border The number of unaccompanied children from Central America dropped to 10,765 in May, compared with 13,940 the previous month, according to CBP figures. The agency said that of the 180,034 people encountered in May, 112,302 individuals were expelled under a Trump-era policy known as Title 42, which was kept in place by US President Joe Biden. The border agency said the average daily number of children in its custody has plummeted to 640. However, another 16,200 migrant children are being held by the US health department. Across the northern border, Canada has offered to help with the crisis by taking in some Central American migrants. Canada's immigration minister Mark Mendicino told Reuters on Tuesday: "I certainly think that we have the capacity." Canada has pledged to resettle thousands of refugees in 2021, but it also turned away those seeking asylum during the pandemic. It remains unclear how the country will accept migrants who are currently in US custody. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2021 18:07:54 GMT
Texas city declares state of emergency over migrants
In Del Rio, Texas, nearly 13,000 men, women and children have gathered at the border to seek asylum and are being held in a temporary staging area under the Del Rio International bridge.
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Post by Admin on Oct 29, 2021 19:34:58 GMT
 The U.S. Justice Department is in talks to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to each child and parent who was separated under a Trump-era practice of splitting families at the border, a person familiar with discussions to settle lawsuits said Thursday. The Wall Street Journal first reported that the government was considering payments around $450,000 to each person affected. A person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press that figure was under consideration but changed, though not dramatically. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions are private. The discussions continue, and there is no guarantee the two sides will strike agreement. About 5,500 children were split from their parents under President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy, under which parents were separated from their children to face criminal prosecution for crossing the border illegally, according to court filings in a federal case in San Diego. Inadequate tracking systems caused many to be apart for an extended time. The payments are intended to compensate for the psychological trauma. Attorneys for the families are also seeking permanent legal status in the United States for those separated under the practice, which a judge halted in June 2018, six days after Trump stopped it amid an international backlash. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night. The settlement talks involve several law firms. The American Civil Liberties Union is representing parents in the San Diego case. The National Immigration Litigation Alliance represents five mothers and their children who were separated for more than two months, including four children who were sent to holding facilities in New York. A federal judge in Arizona denied the government’s bid to dismiss the case last year. “No amount of money can compensate for the amount of pain and suffering these parents and children endured under this unconscionable and unprecedented policy,” said Trina Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance. A Justice Department inspector general’s report in January said a “single-minded focus on increasing immigration prosecutions came at the expense of careful and appropriate consideration of the impact of family unit prosecutions and child separations.” |
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Post by Admin on Nov 4, 2021 2:00:17 GMT
President Biden on Wednesday denied his administration is considering paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to each migrant separated from their family under the Trump administration's zero tolerance border policy.
"That’s not gonna happen," Biden told reporters when asked about the reported plan.
The Wall Street Journal first reported last week that the administration was contemplating a payment of roughly $450,000 per person for separated migrant parents and children. Multiple news outlets later confirmed the Journal's reporting.
The potential payments would come as the government faces numerous lawsuits from families separated under the Trump administration's policy, which saw thousands of children taken away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Biden on Wednesday if the payments could encourage migrants to flock to the U.S.
"If you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah," Biden said. "But it’s not true."
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in a statement argued Biden would be turning his back on a core campaign promise to provide a measure of justice for those separated under the Trump policy.
“President Biden may not have been fully briefed about the actions of his very own Justice Department as it carefully deliberated and considered the crimes committed against thousands of families separated from their children as an intentional governmental policy," ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said in a statement, urging Biden to "right the wrongs of this national tragedy."
GOP lawmakers have chastised the Biden administration over reports of the potential payouts.
"Honestly, this absurd idea feels like a satirical policy proposal that Republicans would have invented to make a parody out of the radical left," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor Monday.
However, legal experts told The Washington Post that settling with the families could prove less costly than allowing the cases to play out in court, where more details about the government's harsh treatment of migrants could also emerge.
Biden at the start of his presidency formed a task force to reunited families that were still separated as a result of the Trump-era policy. The head of the task force, Michelle Brane, told "60 Minutes" last month that the group has reunited 52 families since February.
—Updated at 5:57 p.m.
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