Republicans criticized Joe Biden's administration's migration policies.
So, the chairman of the National Committee of the Republican Party Ronna McDaniel questioned that the authorities control the migration crisis on the southern border of the United States.
“In April, Biden announced that the crisis on the border (between the United States and Mexico -
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More than 170 thousand cases of illegal border crossing were recorded in May - for the third month in a row!
What happened to the "fact checking"? "- she wrote on her Twitter account.
In April, Biden claimed the border crisis was under “control.”
In May, there were more than 170K illegal border crossings - for the third month in a row!
Where are the “fact-checkers”?
- Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) June 8, 2021
McDaniel also said earlier that the US president and vice president have yet to acknowledge the "huge spike in smuggling" of the synthetic drug fentanyl during the Biden border crisis.
According to the politician, tens of thousands of Americans die every year from an overdose of this substance.
In addition, the politician accused Kamala Harris of not visiting the epicenter of the influx of illegal migrants since taking office.
“Now that she has become vice president, she suddenly became uninteresting to travel to the border,” McDaniel said.
In turn, Republican Senator Ted Cruz criticized Biden and Harris for their unwillingness to resolve the migration crisis.
"Barack Obama was building cells, and now Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are building more of them ... what they don't talk about is any willingness to solve the problem," he told Fox News.
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@tedcruz slams Kamala Harris's response to the border crisis: "Barack Obama built the cages, and now Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have built more cages ... what you don't hear is any willingness to fix the problem."
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- The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 8, 2021
Cruz also advised the US Vice President to come to Texas to see for himself the situation in the southern border area.
Recently, Kamala Harris said that it would be possible to stop illegal migration to the United States from Latin American countries only after analyzing the reasons why people leave their homes.
“We must give priority to understanding why people are leaving (from their home countries. -
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),” she said during a press conference after meeting with the President of Mexico.
“I never tire of repeating this: most people do not want to leave their homes.”
During a visit to Guatemala on June 7, the US vice president urged migrants not to try to get to the United States: “I want to clearly convey to those residents of the region who are going to travel the dangerous path to the US-Mexico border - do not come.
Don't come.
I am convinced that in this case you will be sent back. "
On the same day, when asked by a journalist about criticism of the Republican Party about the fact that neither she nor President Biden had visited the southern border of the United States in recent months, Harris spoke about Washington's focus on solving the problem of illegal migration “in a way that has great importance and gives real results. "
“I will continue to focus on this kind of work rather than big gestures,” she said.
Critical remarks
We will remind, earlier, the actions of the current administration in the migration sphere were criticized by the former head of the White House, Donald Trump.
In his opinion, "within just a couple of weeks" Biden and his team turned "the most reliable border in history" into a "national disaster."
The 45th President of the United States noted that the new authorities should only support the work of "a perfectly fine-tuned system on autopilot."
Now, according to Trump, the naked eye can see that the White House team is trying to "carefully hide how bad things really are."
According to him, "ill-considered measures of the current administration" create conditions for the commission of crimes against humanity and spur them on.
The day before this comment, March 21, Biden commented on the situation with the influx of refugees on the southern border of the country.
The American leader said that his apparatus is establishing mechanisms that previously allowed "people to stay in place and present their arguments from their home country."
At the same time, the head of the White House admitted that "at some point" he would visit the border.
Illegal migrants on the US-Mexican border
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Other Republicans also expressed dissatisfaction with the actions of the White House. In particular, Congressman Michael McCall said in an interview with ABC News that the crisis on the southern border, which, in his opinion, was caused by the steps of the new administration, would only get worse. Senator Lindsay Graham expressed the opinion that Biden's immigration plan is unsuccessful. The politician stressed that the situation around the influx of illegal immigrants on the southern border should be settled by Washington.
Recall that after coming to power, Joe Biden made a number of changes in the migration policy of the United States.
In particular, the ban on entry into the United States of citizens of several countries (including Syria, Iran, Yemen, Libya and Somalia) with a predominantly Muslim population, which was previously introduced by Donald Trump, was canceled.
Biden also ended the state of emergency due to the situation on the southern border, which made it possible to channel funds for the construction of the wall, bypassing congressional approval.
In addition, he canceled federal funding for the facility, issued a decree introducing an eight-year period for obtaining citizenship for illegal immigrants, and strengthening the Migrant Child Protection Program (DACA).
"No opportunity, no approach"
As political scientist-Americanist Malek Dudakov noted, the sharp criticism of the migration policy of Biden and Harris from the Republicans, in addition to political motives, is due to weighty objective reasons.
“For the representatives of the Republican Party, of course, this is a striking and understandable topic, which they use to strengthen their positions.
This issue is extremely painful for the Democrats.
However, the American authorities are really in no hurry to take any active steps to resolve the crisis on the southern border, which they themselves have aggravated, "the expert said in an interview with RT.
According to him, Kamala Harris is deliberately not trying to solve the problem by directly strengthening control at the border.
“She is afraid of harming her image, so she decided to take a roundabout way.
The vice president arranged visits to Mexico and Guatemala, to whom she probably offered money in exchange for the loyalty of local authorities and their promises to stop the flow of illegal migration, ”the analyst said.
However, Dudakov believes that such steps will not contribute to solving the migration problem on the southern border.
“Financial injections into Mexico and Guatemala are an attempt by Washington to escape from problems, and not solve them, which is what Kamala Harris is doing now.
These states, in exchange for US money, will not stop migration flows.
They will only pretend that they are actively fighting illegal immigrants in order to subsequently ask for funds in even larger volumes.
These countries have already realized that in this way it is possible to "milk" the United States, it is not profitable for them that migration at the border disappears, "the analyst explained.
At the same time, Dudakov expressed the opinion that even if the authorities of Mexico and Guatemala make every effort to improve the lives of local residents, it will take decades, not years.
“It will be necessary to carry out deep reforms, fight corruption, create a normal political system and develop the economy,” he said.
In turn, the expert of the International Institute for Humanitarian and Political Research Vladimir Bruter called the situation around the migration crisis in the United States "extremely difficult".
“Democrats have neither the ability nor the approach to solve this problem in a short time.
The number of migrants will not decrease in the near future, no matter what they do or say in the White House.
Kamala Harris understands perfectly why illegal immigrants strive to get to the United States - they have no job, no money, no conditions for survival in their homeland.
However, it is more convenient for her to pretend that this is a secret with seven seals and to portray violent activity, ”he said in a comment to RT.
Wall on the US-Mexico border
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In addition, Bruter is confident that the vice president's calls for migrants not to come to the United States will not be heeded: “For them, it is often a matter of life and death.
Persuasion will not help here.
Harris's visits to Mexico and Guatemala will also not change the situation - the authorities of these states are not the initiators of migration. "
The specialist believes that the Democrats had no idea how difficult the problem of migration in the United States was when they came to power.
“They thought that their chaotic actions would help resolve the issue and the situation would improve by itself.
However, this did not happen.
Moreover, now the migration crisis has become unmanageable, ”the expert emphasized.
At the same time, Malek Dudakov said that from the first day of his rule, Biden had taken a number of resonant steps in the field of migration, which ultimately led to an aggravation of the crisis on the southern border, and "was trapped."
“This is a rather painful story for the incumbent head of the White House and the main problem that he cannot solve. Democrats benefit from the influx of migrants, since at their expense the number of people loyal to the Democratic Party in the United States is increasing. However, now we are talking about an uncontrolled flow of refugees, which frightens off moderate voters. However, Biden is also not ready to take tough steps, and half measures will not be able to resolve the situation, ”the analyst concluded.