The president of the United States, Joe Biden, said Wednesday that he intends to travel soon to the border with Mexico at a time when the influx of immigrants increases considerably.
“That is my intention,” Biden said to questions from journalists who were accompanying him in the afternoon on a trip to the states of Kentucky and Ohio, although he did not offer further details.
Biden’s trip would serve to appease criticism from the Republican opposition that has criticized the Administration for, from their point of view, adopting an “open borders” policy, something that has been continuously rejected by the White House.
The visit would take place just a few weeks after the Supreme Court decided keep Title 42 in force indefinitely, a directive applied during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which allows migrants seeking asylum at the border to be sent to Mexico.
With these restrictions, US officials have removed migrants within the United States some 2.5 million times and turned away most people who applied for asylum at the border on the grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19, according to data from the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP, for its acronym in English).
However, not even the validity of Title 42 has been able to contain the flow of migrants arriving at the southern border seeking asylum from countries like Cuba, Nicaragua and other Central American nations.
According to data from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office, 1,299,437 immigrants were processed under Title 8 in fiscal year 2022. Title 8 is the immigration regulation that allows expulsion to all those immigrants who enter the US without proper permission.
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