Tom Cotton dismissed it as a “publicity stunt.” His fellow Armed Services Committee colleague, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, criticized Biden for “wait until virtually the last minute to request Department of Defense support,” and said the announcement “will have negative impacts on readiness.” John Cornyn called the decision “More symbolic than a solution.” Arkansas Republican Sen. Nothing could be further from the truth,” he added. “There is already a humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere, and deploying military personnel only signals that migrants are a threat that require our nation’s troops to contain. The top senate Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, called the announcement an “unacceptable…militarization of the border” in his statement. from upholding its side of the bargain as early as July,” Reichlin-Melnick warned, and asked rhetorically, “If he blocks it, how will Mexico respond?” CBS News has a bit more on that agreement, here.īigger picture: The White House’s decision to deploy troops appears to have been a can’t-win one, politically speaking, as both Democrat and Republican lawmakers lined up with statements lampooning the administration for taking action. One possible snag to that agreement with Mexico: Texas federal judge Drew Tipton could choose to “block the U.S.
The text of that agreement was published Tuesday evening by the White House, here. apparently agreed to take 100,000 people through the new Honduran, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan family reunification parole program announced last week,” Reichlin-Melnick noted. And according to the Mexican government’s announcement of this deal, “the U.S. of people who aren't nationals of that country,” he tweeted upon hearing the news Tuesday evening. history has there ever been another country which would take large numbers of deportations from the U.S. And that is a “seismic shift” from past legal precedent, noted Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council. officials “gave us the good news that the company Mexico Pacific Limited will build a gas pipeline and a liquefaction plant in Sonora, whose investment amounts to 14 billion dollars.” Reuters has more on that deal, here.Īlso new: Mexico has agreed to accept migrants the U.S.
Shortly after that meeting, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wrote on Twitter that the U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar visited officials in Mexico to discuss immigration and security issues. The Department of Homeland Security put out its own statement Tuesday also saying the active duty forces will work on “ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support.”īackground: The White House’s troop decision was announced the same day Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall and U.S. The incoming forces will not act as law enforcement and round up migrants, but instead are expected to “fill critical capability gaps such as ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry and warehouse support until can address these needs through contracted support,” Pentagon spokesman Air Force Brig. Biden’s new order spans 90 days, after which reserve units or contractors could be called up to assist, if needed. Reminder: There are still 2,500 American troops already deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border, which is a legacy operation the White House inherited from the prior administration and hasn’t yet redeployed. after pandemic-related restrictions known as Title 42 loosen in just over a week-when the public health emergency formally expires on May 11.
President Joe Biden has ordered 1,500 active duty troops to the border with Mexico in anticipation of a possible surge in migrants looking to enter the U.S.
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