• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Good point. Mexico has stepped-up in reducing crossings, according to AP, but there could definitely be better partnership from them. Although, keeping migrants from crossing is essentially the same as detainment, but in Mexico.

    The president has been weighing additional executive action since the collapse of a bipartisan border bill earlier this year. The number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border has declined for months, partly because of a stepped-up effort by Mexico. Still, immigration remains a top concern heading into the U.S. presidential election in November and Republicans are eager to hammer Biden on the issue.

    The move would allow Biden, whose administration has taken smaller steps in recent weeks to discourage migration and speed up asylum processing, to say he has done all he can do to control the border numbers without help from Congress.

    https://apnews.com/article/biden-immigration-border-crackdown-mexico-executive-action-aa622c524237fcac29fad24a497192ea