China News Service, January 9 (Xinhua) Comprehensive foreign media reports, on the 8th local time, US President Biden visited the US-Mexico border for the first time after taking office two years ago, inspecting the border city of El Paso, Texas.
As soon as he arrived at the airport, he received a letter of complaint from Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
According to the New York Post, Abbott handed Biden a letter when he arrived at the airport, saying the "chaos" at the border was a "direct result" of the president's failure to enforce federal laws.
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"Your visit today to our southern border with Mexico, $20 billion underpaid, and two years late...in addition, your visit avoids the site of mass illegal immigration and avoids the outrage of thousands of Texans whose lives have been destroyed by your Border Policy," Abbott wrote.
In addition, Abbott listed five policy areas he would like Biden to address, including compliance with the statute mandating that "all categories of aliens should be detained" to stop "the illegal release of large numbers of aliens on parole."
Fully implement the "Article 42" immigration policy immigration deportation order, which was promulgated in the Trump era, allowing the rapid deportation of cross-border immigrants at the border due to the epidemic.
The report pointed out that when the letter was released, thousands of immigrants had flooded border cities in Texas, and camps and tents on the sidewalks had sprung up.
Just days before Biden's visit to the city, U.S. customs agents and local police rounded up some immigrants in what critics said was little more than a show.
It is reported that border officials in El Paso showed Biden how they searched vehicles for drugs, money and other contraband that day.
Biden spent only a few hours in El Paso before continuing south to Mexico City for a summit of North American leaders where immigration was on the agenda.
Former Republican President Trump took tough measures against illegal immigration during his tenure, and the Biden administration is unwilling to replicate its measures.
During his two years in office, the number of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has risen sharply.
In the 2022 fiscal year ended September 30 last year, U.S. law enforcement officers intercepted more than 2.38 million illegal immigrants on the border with Mexico.
Previously, Biden warned illegal immigrants to stay away from the U.S. border on January 5, and at the same time announced that a total of up to 30,000 legal immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela could be accepted each month.
The analysis pointed out that the immigration issue is one of the most controversial political issues in the United States.
Biden announced this new measure at the beginning of the new year as a "balance" to tighten border controls while appeasing voters who advocate accepting immigrants.