Joe Biden celebrated 100 days as US President
A poll published by the media Washington Post and ABC News reflects that 53% of Americans disapprove of the immigration policy exercised by President Joe Biden on the border between Mexico and the United States.
The survey, carried out by telephone from April 18 to 21 with about a thousand adults, shows that the border and migration are the weak points of his administration, which was 100 days old.
The study indicates a 28% drop among Democrats who issued a rating when comparing the management of the pandemic to the situation on the border. Among Republicans, the drop is 23 points and among independents, 31 points.
Biden began his term by signing executive orders on immigration matters with the aim of reversing the policies that worked during the presidency of Donald Trump.
The Democrat stopped the construction of the border wall, ordered the strengthening of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and also suspended the Migrant Protection Protocol.
The Democratic administration decided to accept 25,000 of the 70,000 migrants who were stranded in various cities on the Mexican border awaiting a response to their asylum application.
It was also made clear that migrants detained for entering illegally would not have the opportunity to request asylum.
Biden’s speeches on migration during his campaign, being contradictory to Trump’s ideas on the matter, raised the hope of thousands of people interested in requesting asylum in the United States.
In addition to these words, another issue that is motivating a large migratory movement during the current year is the insecurity and the effects left by the hurricanes that hit Central America in 2020.
In the midst of this situation, the crisis of unaccompanied minors or those who are mobilized by human traffickers and abandoned at the border, either on the Mexican or American side, is growing.
So far in social networks, at least three cases of abandonment by traffickers have been shown, the most shocking was that of two girls thrown from the top of the border wall on the US side.
They also found minors with their mother’s phone number written on their arms and a Honduran boy was saved by Mexican rescuers. being abandoned on an islet of the Rio Grande.
As the US government refuses to deport unaccompanied minors, the shelters designated for them are increasingly overcrowded.