The Biden administration continues to tell migrants not to take the dangerous journey and show up at the US-Mexico border less than a week after 53 migrants died in a remote area of San Antonio in an abandoned tractor-trailer, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.
Condemning the human smuggling networks that endanger and exploit people’s lives to make a profit having no regard for them, President Joe Biden underscored on Tuesday the need to go after the multibillion-dollar criminal smuggling industry preying on migrants.
Many asylum seekers are still forced to wait in Mexico for hearings before US immigration judges although the Supreme Court rejected last Thursday a challenge to President Biden’s effort to stop the “Remain in Mexico” program initiated by the previous administration.
The Supreme Court allowed the Biden administration to end a Trump-era immigration policy, which was praised by Mayorkas, who stressed that the program has endemic flaws that cause unjustifiable human tragedy.
He pointed out that the delay in implementing the ruling will take several weeks since the Supreme Court’s decision would need to be communicated to the lower courts that can now lift its injection preventing the administration from ending the program.
Calling for legislation to address immigration, Mayorkas warned that that the current policy will continue for at least the next few weeks, reiterating that Congress must pass laws to fix the American broken immigration system once and for all.
He stressed that, for now, DHS implements a multifaceted approach to not only work with partner countries of the US but to bring law enforcement to attack in an unprecedented way the smuggling organizations creating the core of the problem.
Although “Remain in Mexico” may come to an end, the public health order called Title 42, however, remains in effect allowing the Customs and Border Protection to expel migrants to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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