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The former President Barack Obama believes that the migration crisis suffered by Haitian migrants on the border in Del Rio, Texas, is “heartbreaking” and believes that comprehensive immigration reform is needed to fix “a system that, in general, is dysfunctional,” Obama added during an interview with ABC News television.
“It is not a secret that we do not have it (a functional system). It is the reason why I proposed comprehensive immigration reform. It is the reason why (President) Joe Biden has proposed it, and it is something that should have been done a long time ago, “Obama told” Good Morning America “co-host Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview that aired on Monday. Tuesday morning.
At the beginning of Obama’s first presidential term in January 2009 there were more than 22, 000 Haitians with deportation orders but, after an earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, the US government extended the temporary protected status , or TPS, to those migrants.
The situation recorded this month in Del Rio, Texas, where more than 12, 000 mostly migrants hait ianos camped under an international bridge seeking refuge , “it is a painful reminder that we have not faced this in the right way and there is much more work to do,” he said. Obama.
Obama said the crisis in Del Rio “is a painful reminder that we do not yet have this right and we have more work to do” .
“As generous as he is, no one understands him better than Joe Biden,” Obama added. “And the question now is: are we serious about treating this problem in a systemic way, instead of these one-off cases where we constantly react to emergencies? And I think that’s something that all Americans should want to put an end to. ”
Obama has openly expressed his support for his former vice president and told the New York Times in June that the Biden administration is “finishing the job” started by the Obama presidency.
The Secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, said on Sunday that some 4, . to your country .
Mayorkas also indicated that some 12, 000 of these Haitian migrants have been released in the United States , after they were assigned appointments for immigration court hearings.