Monitoring Desk
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the United States (US) will use Trump-era restrictions to rapidly expel Nicaraguan, Cuban, and Haitian migrants captured illegally crossing the US-Mexico border.
Joe Biden said in his first major speech on border security that at the same time, the US will permit up to 30,000 people from Nicaraguan, Cuban, Venezuela, and Haitian to enter the US by air.
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In November 2022, US border authorities encountered over 82,000 migrants from the above countries who were trying to enter without any legal permission at the US-Mexico border.
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The new plan is part of a broader effort to stop border crossers and address the humanitarian and political challenge of huge migration that has dogged President Biden since assuming office in 2021, as well as former president Donald Trump.
Republicans have dismissed Biden’s proposals for immigration reform and new funding. The US president said that the actions alone are not going to fix their entire immigration mechanism but they could help a good deal.
