The Biden administration said it will end a Trump-era border policy in May that expelled nearly 2 million migrants from the U.S. The CDC invoked the order in 2020 to limit the spread of Covid-19, but critics say it became an immigration control measure.
have questioned how the administration will manage this change at the border after two years of limited migration.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said in a statement on Friday that by ending the order, President Joe Biden is “doubling down on his commitment to actively worsening the crisis he created.” “We are increasing our capacity to process new arrivals, evaluate asylum requests, and quickly remove those who do not qualify for protection. We will increase personnel and resources as needed and have already redeployed more than 600 law enforcement officers to the border,” he said in a Friday statement.
DHS started the program this week with the goal of administering up to 2,000 vaccines to migrants a day at 11 locations along the border and has plans to expand to as many as 6,000 vaccines a day at 27 locations in coming weeks, a DHS official said.ratcheting up pressure
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