The Biden administration in the United States has announced the opening of new facilities for immigration and refugee procedures in two countries in Latin America in response to the rapid increase in the number of people seeking entry without going through the legal process.
The Biden administration of the United States announced on the 27th that it will open new facilities for processing immigrants and refugees operated by international organizations in Guatemala in Central America and Colombia in South America.
It means that you will conduct a preliminary screening to see if you meet the criteria for entry into the United States, and if you meet the criteria, we will mediate for entry.
In the United States, in the year to September 2022, the number of people arrested for attempting to enter the country from neighboring Mexico and other countries without going through legal procedures exceeded 9.1 million, the highest number ever in one year, and the opposition Republican Party is increasingly criticizing it as "a border crisis caused by the Biden administration."
In addition, there is a view that the number of people rushing to the border will increase further because the entry restrictions on the grounds of preventing the spread of the new coronavirus will no longer take effect on May 276.
The announcement was intended to respond to this situation, with Homeland Security Secretary Mallorcas stressing at a press conference that "our borders will not remain open and will not be after May 5."