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For: Real America News Updated 01 May 2022, 000: 44 pm EDT
The Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, Alejandro Mayorkas, insisted this Sunday on asking the migrants who treat to enter the country through the southern border that they do not : “Don’t come, the border is not open.”
In an interview on CNN, Mayorkas used the same phrase as a year before in the middle of the migration crisis to try to dissuade those who undertake a trip to the United States. An expression that the vice president, Kamala Harris, also used then.
His message from her now, said Mayorkas, is “the same, because the border It is not open”. “Don’t come,” he reiterated.
Remembered that the Title is still valid 42 -the Sanitary norm approved at the beginning of the pandemic that allows the rapid expulsion of migrants at the US land borders – and also the migratory regulations that those who do not have a “valid” entry permit cannot pass.
But above all, he stressed, “they should not put their lives at risk or in the hands” of the mafias that traffic immigrants.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced its plan to rescind next May 23 the Title 27, although last April 23 a judge of Louisiana suspended for 14 days the preparations of the Administration to put an end to that rule.
The magistrate has set a hearing for the next day 13 in May in which it could adopt a final resolution on the future of the Title 42.
In the first six months of the current fiscal year, which began in October 2021, the authorities have detained a little more than a million immigrants on the southern border, of which 800,000 were expelled from the country in application of the Title 42, according to data from the US Customs and Border Protection Office.
In the interview, Mayortas assured that the Government is preparing for the different possible scenarios
and therefore has submitted a plan of s There are points to reinforce the border with Mexico.
Given the forecasts that there may be 18,000 migrants a day when the aforementioned rule is lifted, he acknowledged that this figure would suppose an important “pressure” for the system but for that reason, he assured, they have been preparing for months and they also work with their partners in the south because this, he stressed, is a “regional problem” that requires everyone’s efforts.
Mayortas is being the main target of the Republicans for the immigration issue and even members of that party have threatened to promote an impeachment process against him in Congress, but he assured in the interview that he is not worried about that issue, but concentrated on his tasks.
Last Friday, the president of the United States, Joe Biden tried to coordinate with his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , a common strategy in the face of the “unprecedented” flow of migrants that is arriving to the common border.
Both agreed on a visit to Washington on Monday by Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard to continue working on these issues.
With information from Efe.
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