An aggressive effort to quickly clear more than 15,000 Haitian migrants from the makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas, has been part of a radical and contradictory response from President Biden and his promise to improve the immigration plan in the United States.
Biden's strategy was to bring agents to the Del Rio, Texas area, backed by a public health immigration rule invoked by Trump to deport many people to their countries of origin.
The procedure looks like something out of a horror movie. President Biden's spokeswoman said the scenes of agents on horseback were "horrible" and not "acceptable or appropriate." However, the deportations are a clear example of how Biden, who declared on February 2 that his goal was to "undo the moral and national disgrace of the previous administration," is implementing some of the more aggressive anti-immigration measures that Trump took over the past four years.
Having failed in his attempts to build a more "humane" set of immigration laws, Biden has reacted in a way that few of his supporters expected.
The initiative initially championed by Joe Biden to comprehensively reform immigration laws has been dealt a blow by the Senate's decision on Sunday. To some extent, the conflict Biden faces stems from his efforts to use the power of his office to enact lasting immigration change, efforts that were blocked by federal judges skeptical of executive power and hampered by a bureaucracy deliberately obstructed by former President Trump.
While trying to uphold the United States' humanitarian obligations to migrants fleeing lack of job opportunities, economic hardship, political instability, and violence, Bien continues to struggle to solve a challenge that U.S. presidents have faced for decades.
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