The Biden White House has to bring back the "Remain in Mexico" policy, but a response to reporters on Monday indicates they were reluctant to do so.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki described the Biden administration's not-so-happy stance on the situation at Monday's press briefing.
Steven Portnoy of CBS brought up the topic of immigration by asking: "Immigrant rights advocates say that the idea that the United States government is going to be able to facilitate lawyers for migrants who want them is an empty promise. What can you say to assure those people that in fact you'll live by that commitment?"
Psaki's response to the question stumbled to find terminology that best reflected the White House's feelings on the immigration issue:
"Well, I would say first to all these people that it is not our preference to be reimplementing and reinstituting the Migrant Protection [Protocols program]. We are doing that because of a court order and legal requirement to do so, and that we have put in place a number of changes to make from the Department of Homeland Security to improve some humanitarian components."
President Joe Biden ended the Migrant Protections Protocols (MPP) program during his first days in office. The "Remain in Mexico" policy requires migrants to wait outside the United States as their claims for asylum are being processed.
It was only after the states of Texas and Missouri sued the Biden White House in federal court that they were ordered by the Supreme Court to restore the protocols. Cooperation with Mexico has been brought up as a factor for consideration in how the Biden administration went about doing so.
Psaki's response, continued:
"But we still feel the program is inefficient, inhumane, and we are not ... we did not eagerly reimplement it, I should say. But in terms of people who are skeptics, we are absolutely committed to doing everything we can, as we are required by court order, to implement this, to take steps to ensure that there are—that we are injecting additional humanitarian considerations, and providing the assistance that we have promised to people who are participating in the program."
Former President Donald Trump last week told Fox & Friends during an interview that Biden shouldn't have tried ending it in the first place. The theme of his remarks was that the Biden White House could've done nothing, "gone to the beach," and that the country would've been better off.
As for migration issues in 2021, the Washington Examiner has a breakdown of where the hundreds of thousands of migrants came from, when Border Patrol encountered them at the United States - Mexico border.
At the beginning of December, an agreement between the US and Mexico was announced when it comes to the "root causes" angle of the border crisis prioritized by the current Biden administration.
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