The Homeland Security Department of Homeland Security is preparing for an Infinite Cycle of Deportation and Detention of Migrants

Mr. Trump wanted to round up migrants in Republican states and dump them in major cities, according to the former chief of staff. He wanted to bus migrants who had been deemed to be “murderers, rapists and criminals” to places, such as California, where officials had declined to help carry out the administration’s rigorous deportation policies, according to the former chief of staff, Miles Taylor.

CNN reports that the DHS is preparing for scenarios that may double the number of people crossing the Mexican border.

It has been an endless cycle since President Joe Biden took office, according to multiple administration officials and sources close to the White House. Agency officials dream up a plan but then struggle to get White House approval, even as the problem compounds and Republicans step up their criticism.

“Everything seems to influence each other,” one Homeland Security official told CNN. “Things develop. People can change their minds. They lose one battle, and they do this again.

Concerns over increasing border arrests is in part based on mass movement across the Western Hemisphere, where thousands of migrants, particularly Venezuelans, are fleeing deteriorating conditions.

“Interior assistance and community support is something the White House is only serious about discussing when encounter rates rise,” another Homeland Security official told CNN, adding that additional big policy changes aren’t expected until after the midterm election.

The process takes a long time because of the back and forth between the White House and DHS. Under pressure to mitigate the situation at the US-Mexico border, the department floats proposals to the White House, which in turn asks for additional information, according to sources. There are disagreements and questions about the policy within the DHS.

A source who is familiar with internal discussions said that the areas that have been worked on together may have differing opinions among agencies.

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The plan came to fruition last week, when the administration expanded the use of the temporary emergency restriction on the border and announced a humanitarian parole program for some migrants from Venezuela.

A White House spokesman says getting lots of expertise before making policy decisions that impact millions of lives is a feature. “And it is through this smart, deliberative, and collaborative approach that we have seen significant progress in rebuilding the immigration system the prior Administration gutted.”

The DHS defended its response to a broken and dismantled immigration system.

“The administration has effectively managed an unprecedented number of noncitizens seeking to enter the United States, interdicted more drugs, and disrupted more smuggling operations than ever before, all while reversing the cruel and harmful policies of the prior administration,” the spokesperson said.

While Biden has condemned Trump-era immigration policies, his own administration has wrestled with striking a balance between enforcement and holding up its humanitarian promises.

Republican governors, meanwhile, have sent migrants to Democratic-led cities as an affront to Democrats and to the White House – bringing the issue of immigration to the forefront of national discussion and drawing fierce criticism from immigrant advocates, city officials and the Biden administration.

“It’s enraging and sad to see a Democratic administration make it harder for vulnerable people to seek asylum all because they’re scared of angry MAGA voters on this issue,” a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus told CNN, responding to the latest policy announcements.

The administration plans to expand the policy while it stays in place, and will include Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Cubans as well. Title 42 has so far largely applied to migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Venezuela.

Other policies have moved forward, like a regulation that allows asylum officers to hear and decide asylum claims – cases that are usually assigned to immigration judges – when migrants present at the US southern border and a dedicated immigration court docket for migrant families. The White House released an immigration blueprint last year, which contained both of those policies.

The White House received briefings from the Department of Homeland Security about plans for the joint processing centers, a source with knowledge of the discussions told CNN.

“You get an appropriation from Congress, you work to meet the directions of that appropriation in ways that also match with the priorities that the secretary of Homeland Security has set, likely or in some way in coordination with the White House,” the source said.

The Biden administration’s handling of the US-Mexico border has been politically precarious since the 2009 Venezuelan Abroad Referendum

Poor economic conditions, food shortages and limited access to health care, for example, are increasingly pushing Venezuelans to leave, posing an urgent challenge for the Biden administration. More than 6 million Venezuelans have fled their country, matching Ukraine in the number of displaced people and surpassing Syria, according to the United Nations.

Since 2021, there have been more than 2.4 million arrests along the US-Mexico border, according to US Customs and Border Protection data. Those people who have tried to cross more than once. Many have also been turned away under Title 42.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reiterated last week that Venezuelan migrants shouldn’t cross the border unlawfully, citing instead the humanitarian parole program.

Administration officials have been working closely with other countries across the Western Hemisphere in order to manage migration north and set up protections closer to migrant origin countries.

“A big challenge for this issue is that it sits on the cracks of a whole set of structures at the White House,” said a former Obama administration official. Logistic management is just part of the process of moving people around. There is no need for the expansion of alternative avenues for people to have access to relief.

All of the executive branch efforts are just Band-Aids. She said that congress needs to make sure that they act. “The administration, in the absence of any legislation from the Congress, has very few tools available.”

Every decision is fraught because the Republicans want to make political gains out of the situation. The decision is not just about the action contemplated. All of it has political resonance.

During the call between Schumer and Klain, the Senate majority leader raised concerns about the administration’s preparation for the looming termination and whether officials were indeed considering a new asylum policy, according to two sources with knowledge of the call.

The call – one of many that have come in from lawmakers to the White House – was indicative of the politically precarious position for Biden as officials try to fend off Republicans pounding the administration over its handling of the border and appease Democrats concerned about barring asylum seekers from the US.

The Biden administration didn’t include the children in the policy until after they took office. It has also allowed many migrant families to seek asylum in the U.S. Still, the administration kept Title 42 in place for over a year, and defended it in court as necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The termination of the authority is expected to lead to an increase in border crossings since authorities will no longer be able to quickly expel them as has been done since March 2020.

Schumer and Klain speak frequently in important moments like the year-end legislative sprint. But the border issue’s emergence in discussion provides a window into a complex policy and political moment.

Schumer is just one of many Democrats who have pressed the administration to end Title 42. Administration officials have received a steady stream of calls from lawmakers as well as state and local officials, reflecting often sharply divergent views on the merits of the authority, people familiar with the matter said. The calls echoed concerns about what Title 42 will mean for the border and what it won’t do.

It’s a dynamic that has played out as the Biden administration intensively prepares for a moment officials have long grappled with how to navigate. The latest phase of the effort has been going on for a while, and the officials were aware at the beginning of the year that the policy would end at some point. Key entry points have been directed to personnel and technology infrastructure with increased levels and resources expected in the days ahead.

Amid growing concerns that large groups of migrants waiting in Mexico could cross over the border next week, Biden’s team said Thursday it was surging resources to the area, improving processing efficiency for immigration claims, imposing consequences for unlawful entry, bolstering nonprofit capacity, targeting smugglers and working with international partners.

“We’re going to do the work, we’re going to be prepared, and we’re going to make sure we have a humane process moving forward,” Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday at the White House briefing.

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The diplomatic component tied to managing a rapid shift in the countries of origin of migrants caught at the border has added a new layer of difficulty to the administration, which is still facing cross-cutting viewpoints on border policy.

Throughout, the administration has pointed to the bipartisan framework released in the Senate last week as evidence that there will be a viable long-term solution.

The bill did not include a bipartisan proposal from senators of the same party to give many of the 11 million people in this country a path to legal status.

The framework, which would have extended protections for Dreamers and extended Title 42, was unlikely to build momentum in the brief lame-duck session.

Mayor Perez Cuellar reported an increase in arrivals in recent weeks across the Rio Grande. He told CNN that this was a city of migrants.

“Right now officials are saying that they are going to continue moving ahead as if Title 42 is going to be lifted tomorrow,” Lavandera said on CNN Tuesday.

If adopted, the asylum proposal would be reminiscent of a policy put in place during the Trump administration that dramatically limited the ability of migrants to claim asylum in the US if they resided or traveled through other countries prior to coming to the US. No decision has been made on the proposal.

Republican attorneys general argued that lifting the restrictions would cause a surge of illegal immigration at the southern border. The restrictions — first put in place by the Trump administration in March of 2020 — had been set to lift Wednesday at midnight.

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In it, DHS also stressed the need for congressional action to update outdated statutes and help create a functioning asylum system, as the current one is under immense strain.

The 21st will be a disaster. There are so many things in the pipeline, but nothing is ready (to) go,” one official said, referring to December 21 when Title 42 is set to end.

Mass movement of people around the globe has posed a uniquely difficult challenge and the whole of government approach is to address that, says Alejandro Mayorkas.

The mayor said that we couldn’t continue to go on with a broken immigration system. It is larger than the United States. I have to work with the UN and countries around us to be able to fix it.”

The partnership of Congress, state and local officials, NGOs, and communities is needed to address this challenge.

Samaniego made it clear that they needed humanitarian support from the state and that any law enforcement actions such as these should be coordinated through Chief Jaquez. CNN reached out to US Customs and Border Protection for comment.

The situation is being watched by El Paso city officials who are in discussions with federal, state, and local partners. Mayorkas also visited El Paso on Tuesday where he met with the Customs and Border Protection workforce and local officials.

The Biden administration is asking for more than $3 billion to deal with the border crisis in a post-title 42 world, and a federal judge has paused the “Remain in Mexico” program

The Biden administration is also asking Congress for more than $3 billion as it prepares for the end of Title 42, according to a source familiar with the ask.

“If Republicans in Congress are serious about border security, they would ensure that the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security have the resources they need to secure our border and build a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system,” White House spokesperson Abdullah Hasan said in a statement.

The congressman told CNN he was in close contact with the city of Laredo and they might need to bus migrants if nonprofits can’t handle the influx of arrivals.

It was the latest sign that broken Washington can’t fix one of America’s most intractable issues and that it will cause situations like the one that will unfold at the border next week.

The Department of Homeland Security has a plan to deal with the border crisis as Republicans prepare to take control of the House and claim that the White House neglected the border.

A lot of people are concerned that a big influx of immigrants next week could cause a lot of problems. Critics say the administration took too long to engage on the issue and hasn’t done enough, though they also fault Congress for failing for decades to reform the immigration system and border enforcement – a goal that polls repeatedly show the public supports.

On CNN Thursday, the judge said that there was a leak. We need the man to come and fix the leak. And instead, what we’re doing is we’re sending us more buckets to hold the water.”

The Gov of California said in an interview that the policy could be a burden on the state. He said that the system was not working and that it is about to break in a post-title 42 world unless we take some responsibility and ownership.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco told CBS News she was worried about an increase in “illegal migration” and drug smuggling. New York City, a city that is Democratic, is already struggling to cope with immigrants who have already arrived.

And in another setback to Biden’s efforts to end some of Trump’s controversial immigration policies, a federal judge in Texas has paused the administration’s most recent attempt to end the so-called “Remain in Mexico” program, which sends certain non-Mexican citizens who entered the US back to Mexico – instead of detaining them or releasing them into the United States – while their immigration proceedings played out.

At the same time, Mr. Biden and his team have been under intense fire from Republicans, who accuse the administration of being too lenient at the border. House Republicans, who will be in the majority next year, have promised to investigate — and seek to impeach — Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security.

“Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings,” Abbott wrote in the letter. “Texans are paying an especially high price for your failure, sometimes with their very lives, as local leaders from your own party will tell you if given the chance.”

Another tragedy highlighted over Title 42’s expiration is rooted in the plight of migrants fleeing crime, persecution, economic and social repression in central and South America who make a perilous journey to the United States, often at the mercy of ruthless human traffickers and with no certain outcome.

She argued at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June that no migrant wanted to leave home but that many were forced out by dire conditions. Harris has also sought to drum up private investment to mitigate the poverty that forces people to flee. But at the same time, there hasn’t been much public evidence recently that her efforts are bearing fruit or a sense that an issue that brings substantial political peril is her overwhelming priority.

Any permanent solution to border issues would involve a massive investment to secure the frontier, with barriers where it makes sense but also with new tracking technology and manpower where walls don’t help. The plight of children brought to the US from Mexico as Dreamers, would be addressed. It would allow for a long- term path to legal status for millions more migrants, as well as reform the system of legal immigration and visas for migrant workers needed to address economically damaging labor shortages in agriculture and Catering industries.

Many of the arriving migrants have told reporters they’re from Nicaragua. Some have said they were victims of kidnapping before making it to the border.

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The need for homeless people in El Paso is much greater than what Barrow has seen before, the Rescue Mission CEO said.

“I’ve never seen anything like this. … Barrow told CNN they were not built for that type of situation. We have all these people in need, and we’re doing everything we can.

He said increases in migrant populations crossing the border used to be gradual and over a period of months. He said that this time it was quick and over a few days.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, it has deployed additional agents to the region in order to deal with the influx of illegal immigrants.

In a ruling last month, the judge ordered the Biden administration to stop using the Title 42 restrictions. But the judge stayed his own ruling to allow the Biden administration time to prepare.

A group of Republican attorneys general brought the case in which a federal judge in Louisiana blocked the effort. They argued that the CDC did not go through the proper procedures to end Title 42, and should have considered the impact on state health care systems and other costs.

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Since then, immigration authorities have deported over two million migrants since Biden took office.

The Mexican government has worked with the US to try to stem the flow of immigrants after Title 42 ends, an official on the US side of the border said.

In the Del Rio sector, for example, officials predicted that the number of migrant encounters could double from 1,700 a day to 3,500 a day when Title 42 ends, straining overwhelmed resources in a remote area of the border.

A senior US Customs and Border Protection official told CNN that policy discussions are still going on to provide legal pathways to Nicaraguans, Haitians and Cubans who make up a large number of encounters.

“I think there’s some that probably haven’t gotten the message and won’t until they cross,” the official said. Some people are committed who will cross.

Inside the White House, the pause on the termination will not have any effect on what have been intense behind-the-scenes preparations for the end of the authority, according to a White House official.

Many, including mothers and sick children, are living on the streets, in abandoned homes and on sidewalks as they wait. “They feel desperate,” said Glady Edith Cañas, director of the non-profit Ayudándoles a Triunfar.

The Texas government is preparing for a potential surge of people on the Mexican side of the border.

CNN was the first to show a deployment of National Guardsmen along the southern border. The El Paso-Ciudad Juarez border appeared to be part of the Texas Gov. Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border security mission.

Sgt. Jason Archer with the Texas Military Department Public Affairs told CNN “the wire that’s being placed is temporary” and will be up for an “undetermined amount of time.” It was placed to support law enforcement, not the US Border Patrol.

If they encounter migrants, the National Guard will notify US Border Patrol so that they can pick them up. Last year, soldiers were stationed along the border in Del Rio and were assigned to watch for activity.

“I do not want these initiatives to turn into policing simply because of political overtures or political opportunities,” said Ricardo Samaniego, the El Paso county judge. He said he had been told that the show of force was a training exercise and that it was unclear how long the group would remain at the border.

That is not their job and I am beginning to worry. I am very confident that it was not coordinated with Border Patrol. The county judge told CNN that he has always insisted that any assistance from the state should be in lockstep with the county’s enforcement strategy.

The sense of urgency around the end of Title 42 – and the uncertainty injected into the process by Roberts’ temporary pause – is causing consternation among state and local officials across the country.

Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams said his administration is monitoring the potential surge along the southern border in response to Title 42’s end and how Roberts’ temporary pause may impact New York City.

New York City will still be eligible for more grants even though the exact amount the city will get is not known, a source said. It is expected that the funding will support the construction of shelter facilities that will address capacity issues, particularly in New York, and that it will also allow CBP to process asylum seekers quicker.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency reimburses cities that provide shelter, food, transportation, and basic health services to asylum seekers. Schumer negotiated an increase to the EFSH pot from the original $150 million to the now $800 million despite GOP opposition, the source said.

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Brnovich had told the justices in court papers that they should put the lower court ruling on hold. As an alternative, he said that the justices should grant an “immediate” temporary injunction to maintain the status quo and also consider whether to skip over the appeals court and agree to hear arguments on the merits of the issue themselves.

Failure to grant a stay here will cause irreparable harms to the States as they bear many of the consequences of immigration, according to Brnovich.

The matter is likely to be referred to the full court by Roberts after the administration submits its response on Tuesday. The brief order that the chief justice issued signaled that he was going to move quickly.

The state of emergency was declared by the El Paso Mayor because of the recent surge in migrants who have recently arrived in the city and are living in unsafe conditions.

In a news release, city officials said they had identified “mass shelter facilities” to accommodate 1,000 to 2,000 people and would provide essential services such as food, bathrooms, showers, toiletries and transportation. The Red Cross will be there to help, city officials said. The city’s airport is giving shelter to people with airplane tickets to other United States destinations, according to officials.

It asked that the court delay the ending of Title 42 until at least December 27, citing the ongoing preparations for an influx of migrants.

The administration said that the states, led by Arizona, do not have the legal right to challenge a federal district court opinion that had vacated the program and ordered its termination by Wednesday.

The parties in the lawsuit, including the Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union, were asked to weigh in on the matter by Chief Justice John Roberts.

As the issue of immigration continues to be divisive, federal officials and border communities have been bracing for an expected increase in migrant arrivals as early as this week. The Department of Homeland Security has been putting in place a plan for the end of the program that includes surging resources to the border, targeting smugglers and working with international partners.

In court papers Tuesday, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar stressed that it would be highly unusual for the court to allow the states to step in at the last minute when they had not been an official party in the dispute at hand.

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The government doesn’t want to minimize the seriousness of the problem. But the solution to that immigration problem cannot be to extend indefinitely a public-health measure that all now acknowledge has outlived its public-health justification,” she wrote.

Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the families wrote that the record shows the horrors being visited on noncitizens by Title 42 expulsions.

The States claim that Title 42 is a better immigration control system because it does not allow for hearings or access to asylum, according to Gelernt. “But again, that is a choice for Congress.”

Meanwhile, CNN reporters on both sides of the border with Mexico on Tuesday encountered people who have already risked their lives on thousand-mile journeys to make it into the US.

The original challenge was brought by six families who crossed the US-Mexico border and were subject to the Title 42 process.

In court papers, the ACLU previously argued that Covid-19 was always a thinly veiled pretense to increase immigration control. “There is no legal basis to use a purported public health measure to displace the immigration laws long after any public health justification has lapsed.”

Meanwhile, although the Biden administration objects to the states’ attempt to intervene in the ongoing dispute and has said it is prepared to allow the program to end, it is still appealing the district court opinion to preserve the authority of the government to impose public health orders in the future.

Drone footage showed a large crowd of migrants lining up near the border in El Paso Tuesday, with families and small children waiting near barbed wiring and Texas National Guard troops.

Overnight Tuesday, National Guards members and state troopers put up barbed wire, blocking a common crossing used by thousands of migrants over the past several weeks. Migrants who wanted to cross were told to go to a bridge that would process them for asylum.

Elsewhere on the US side, shelters are packed, and still, not everyone is sheltered. A crowd of migrants could be seen sleeping on the ground outside a bus station Sunday in El Paso, Texas.

Thousands are also waiting for Title 42 to be lifted in Reynosa, a Mexican city across the border from the Rio Grande Valley, including 4,000 who are staying in two shelters and an estimated 4,000 in other encampments and the surrounding areas, according to Pastor Hector Silva.

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The mother and son traveled through a dangerous area of the jungle known as the Darien Gap, which is where migrants cross from Columbia to Panama. Brian said he was helping his mother cross when she grabbed a branch and then she fell down a cliff and into a river.

The number of migrants trying to cross into the US would likely increase if Title 42 were to be lifted.

“I really believe that today our asylum-seekers are not safe as we have hundreds and hundreds on the streets and that’s not the way we want to treat people,” El Paso’s Mayor said Saturday.

Two vacant schools in the city are being prepared to house migrants, D’Agostino said. The first one will be ready to use within two days, and the second won’t be changed for a while.

“All eyes are on El Paso and for this reason, we must show the world the compassion our community is known for and illustrate the resilience and strength of our region,” City Manager Tommy Gonzalez said in a statement.

The strange reality of the dysfunctional, duct-taped US border policy is that a key portion was written by former President Donald Trump’s administration during the pandemic, enforced under pressure by the administration of President Joe Biden and is now at the whim of the Supreme Court.

Democrats seem to refuse to acknowledge a crisis at the border, and now the White House is scrambling to articulate a plan to deal with it.

All the while, businesses – from the high-tech to the labor-intensive – are in need of workers to combat a labor shortage. And people who want to come to the US legally wait in line for years.

“We’re not going to fix it immediately,” Theresa Cardinal Brown told me. The Bipartisan Policy Center has a managing director who is responsible for immigration and cross-border policy. It is not possible to push or switch a single policy which will quote unquote fix what is happening.

She said that the longer they don’t act and the worse the problems get, the quicker it will take to get order back.

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Every president for a generation has tried, and failed, to enact some kind of comprehensive immigration reform. Experts argue that only a holistic approach will work and it needs to address two main problems:

The legal immigration system doesn’t acknowledge labor needs of the country and drives people to seek illegal routes.

Lavandera said the politics of border security is taking over because the state has deployed those National Guard troops in a way that frustrates local officials.

He kept in contact with the people he met a month ago. One family found its way to Indianapolis and is waiting for a January court date. One man was driven all the way from El Paso to California and then deported into Tijuana. Another family is renting a house without a kitchen in Juarez and has tried twice to cross into the US.

Vitiello said a Trump-era policy whereby people seeking asylum should wait for a hearing in Mexico or be detained should be reinstated. He believes that any less than an open border is equivalent to an open border.

Increased border resources, send extra agents to the border, and crack down on illegal entries are part of the Biden administration’s approach. Even though it asked the supreme court for more time, the administration did not embrace an extension of Title 42.

Vicente Gonzalez is a Texas Democrat who represents parts of the border and he told CNN that the US should create a safe zone in Mexico for asylum seekers to have their cases heard before they get to the US.

“People are running from poverty around the world and coming in very high numbers,” he added. “I think our laws are antiquated and we need to fix them and create legislation that fits modern day.”

Annunciation House in El Paso is led by RubenGarcia and serves migrants. Lavandera lawmakers should acknowledge the changing nature of migrants, according to him.

The US fell asleep at the wheel over the past decade as countries in the Western Hemisphere continued to struggle, according to Andrew Espaillat, a democrat from New York.

“The hemisphere is facing a crisis of democracy,” he said, noting that migrants are fleeing regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, as well as violence and natural disaster. He said we need to address what is going on in the hemisphere.

The Supreme Court’s decision allowing federal officials to keep expelling migrants until they receive an asylum hearing is sparking uncertainty for immigrants in El Paso, Texas.

Rodriguez and her two children wore a jacket provided by a local church on the chilly El Paso sidewalk. She said she and her children were picked up by immigration as they slept in the city plaza, after they attempted to cross into the US.

Title 42, a Trump-era policy which allows US authorities to quickly return most migrants back across the border, has led to tens of thousands of migrants surging to the southern border.

The policy will stay in effect while legal challenges play out after the Supreme Court allowed it to remain in effect even though it was scheduled to end on December 21.

“They won’t give us the opportunity to be able to cross legally,” said Rodríguez. That was what we wanted to be, to be able to cross legally.

The executive director of Hope Border Institute warned Tuesday that the Supreme Court decision will lead to more deaths at the border, and create unsustainable pressure on border enforcement.

Some people say that there are up to 15,000 people waiting to cross over. It would be hard to provide space if there were to be many all in a short time frame. We know transportation would be difficult,” D’Agostino said.

But the city is unable to accept migrants who don’t have documentation from Customs and Border Protection, according to Cruz-Acosta, who cited state and federal policies, which she said require migrants to have documentation at government-run facilities.

Customs and Border Protection will connect immigrants who show up at government shelters with other resources, such as shelters run by NGOs.

Two local NGOs who are accepting undocumented immigrants in their shelters told CNN last week that their facilities are overcrowded, leaving them to close their doors to many seeking shelter even as temperatures dipped dangerously low over the weekend.

DHS also acknowledges in the memo that domestic violent extremists have historically cited “immigration-related grievances” to justify violence and notes that militia groups have previously interfered with border operations.

There have been calls for attacks against mainly immigrants and critical infrastructure, but our insight into the DVE plot is constrained by the individuals who use online security measures to limit their exposure to law enforcement.

Threats against the United States are becoming more and more complex and unpredictable as a result of a host of conspiracy theories.

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Grievances over immigration policy and animosity toward immigrants have previously fueled extremist acts, including the 2019 Walmart shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed 23 people and left another 23 wounded. Authorities said at the time the accused shooter drove to the West Texas border city with the sole intent of killing immigrants and Mexicans.

The December memo includes a list of violent tactics that were discussed on social media against migrants. Other users discussed shooting electrical substations near the US-Mexico border, likely to disrupt immigration facilities.

“We have not previously observed calls for substation attacks in response to immigration-related concerns, and these recent discussions may stem from widespread media coverage of recent attacks against other substations across the United States, particularly in Moore County, North Carolina,” the memo reads.

In fact, Mr. Miller on multiple occasions tried to use Title 42 even before the pandemic during outbreaks of mumps at detention facilities in six states and again when border stations were hit with the flu. Most of the time, he was talked down by cabinet secretaries.

Immigrants carrying infections into the country echoes a racist idea that minorities are associated with disease.

In a dissenting opinion, conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the “current border crisis is not a COVID crisis. And courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency. We’re not policymakers of last resort.

It is not a permanent policy. It wasn’t meant to be. It’s one of the few things we still have left in our box that is preventing more people from reentering.

The Biden Administration is Not Forbidden by Law, but the States Are Interested in Protecting Our Country’s Security and Security, Attorney General Immigration Asylum

President joe Biden did not follow the law, because he did not give notice to those who were affected by the action.

“We as the states tried to intervene to protect our interest, and the Biden administration disagreed, saying the states didn’t have an interest,” he said. “I think the events of the last two years, whether it’s on a cost in health care, whether it’s the costs of incarceration or whether it’s the costs in lost lives — Every state in the United States now is a border state, and we all have an interest in making sure we have a secure border.”

From a legal perspective, I think the answer is that the states are impacted. “And yes, the states should be allowed to intervene when the federal government won’t do its job.”

“The Biden administration is not prosecuting people for illegal entry and reentry into our country. They are literally letting people make asylum claims and then they’re releasing them into our country. And sometimes, you know, they’re being told to report to probation officers years down the road,” he said. While you can look at how long it takes, it’s not an indictment on the federal immigration system which everyone agrees is broken.

This is not like rocket science in the sense that there are countries like Canada and Australia that have immigration systems that are based on merits and points. And, you know, so, for example, if they need, you know, more nurses or more gardeners in, you know, Australia, they will let people come in and become citizens and take those jobs.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1146060901/title-42-mark-brnovich-arizona-attorney-general-immigration-asylum

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“The very first thing you have to do is aggressively enforce existing law. You have to gain control of the southern border,” he said. You can start having a discussion once you do that.

He pointed to the President’s surge at the southern border in order to address the migrant influx. “They aggressively sent judges and federal prosecutors to our southern border to aggressively prosecute entry and reentry cases. During the Obama administration they were able to stem the flow of immigration.

Republicans have been hounding President Biden for more than a year to travel to the southern border and see the situation there with his own eyes. He stated that he had been too busy to make the trip, but then conceded in a town hall meeting with CNN that he should go down. Last month, when Mr. Biden went to tour the site for a computer chip manufacturing plant in Arizona but not the southern border, Fox News blasted him.

I know how it works. It doesn’t make sense to spotlight a problem until you have a solution, and solutions on the border don’t come easy. Mr. Biden has a plan. It involves extending a pathway of legal migration made available to some Venezuelans to people from Nicaragua, Haiti and Cuba. They will be able to apply for parole, which will allow them to work in the United States if they pass a background check, and have friends or relatives who are willing to sponsor them.

Previewing the trip, a White House official said the president will “meet with federal, state, and local officials and community leaders who have been critical partners in managing the new migration challenge impacting the entire Western Hemisphere with record numbers of people fleeing political oppression and gang violence in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Cuba.” The president is scheduled to spend about three hours on the ground.

Members of Congress, Customs and Border Protection officers, local officials, and law enforcement will be joined by Biden to evaluate border enforcement operations.

The official said that the president will talk to business leaders about the economic impact of migration and worker shortages in the region.

Biden will be joined by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas; Texas Reps. Veronica Escobar, Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, all Democrats; El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser; El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego; and additional community and business leaders.

“We’ve worked with the White House to make sure that all the folks who are actually doing the work on the ground day-to-day are the ones that the president will meet with,” she said in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “He needs to hear about how over time, the challenges that we have faced as a country on immigration, on border issues, they have grown exponentially.”

She blamed the rise in border crossing on the Title 42 public health rule. The restriction allows federal authorities to expel migrants quickly, citing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Escobar predicted, based on her conversations with Department of Homeland Security officials, that the administration would eventually move toward the move punitive Title 8, which allows US authorities to process and remove migrants who do not have a legal basis to be in the country.

Mayorkas defended Biden’s approach to addressing the migrant surge at the southern border, saying the administration was operating in a humane but necessary way.

“We want individuals who qualify for relief under our laws to come to the United States in a safe and orderly way. He said that people don’t have to place their lives and their life savings in the hands of ruthless traffickers because we are building lawful pathways.

Federal data shows there has been a steep decrease in migrant encounters in El Paso since December.

The Department of Homeland Security says there have been less than 700 daily encounters over the last few days, compared to 2,500 in December.

The controversy over the El Paso border border policy revealed by the Mexican Congressional Hispanic Caucus: A response to a spokesman from the Texas Department of Homeland Security

Biden has accused the Republicans of playing politics with his travel to the border, as he wanted to wait until he knew an outcome in the Title 42 legal machinations.

In El Paso, Biden will be faced with the history of his predecessor and the challenges he faces as the administration tries to stem the flow of mass migration in the hemisphere.

In recent months, the El Paso sector has surpassed the Rio Grande Valley sector in migrant arrests. RGV has historically been one of the busiest sectors for border crossings. There are 268 miles of international border in the El Paso sector.

John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications said that the president is looking forward to going to Mexico to see the situation on the border.

The administration will now accept thousands of migrants from countries like Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela. Those who do not come to the US under that program may be expelled to Mexico under Title 42.

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus grilled top Biden officials, including Mayorkas, over the newly announced border policies in a call Thursday, according to two sources in attendance.

“It was really heated,” one source said, adding that members were “livid” that the administration didn’t consult with them ahead of time. The call included officials with the Department of Homeland Security and the White House.

“Civil rights advocates & Members of Congress are outraged by these policies because they flout refugee law & will unleash more suffering at the border, w/ disparate harm to Black, Brown & Indigenous asylum seekers,” Heidi Altman, the policy director at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a liberal human rights group, said on Twitter. The admin should stop taking various different routes.

The groups that opposed Mr. Trump were criticized for doing so by Mr. Biden and his aides.

John F. Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said they took a different view on legal pathways to entry and the need to curb illegal migration.

Mr. Kirby and other White House officials pointed out that several mayors who have struggled with the influx of migrants into their cities, including the leaders of San Antonio, Chicago, Washington and New York, praised Mr. Biden’s proposals last week.

The question of what to do along the southern border in places like El Paso will be at the center of the discussions when Mr. Biden arrives for meetings with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada.

“People come to America for many reasons,” Biden said during a speech in January. “To seek new opportunity in what is the strongest economy in the world. Can’t blame them wanting to do it. They flee oppression to become the first free nation in the world. They chase their own American Dream in the greatest nation in the world.”

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has sent many of the buses, hand-delivered a letter to Biden during his visit. The Biden administration’s immigration policy has been criticized by the governor.

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives used their first hearing of the new Congress to zero in on what they call a crisis at the southern U.S. border.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, presided over a hearing Wednesday billed as “The Biden Border Crisis — Part I.” As the name implies, it’s the first of what are likely to be many GOP-led hearings on the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Republicans sought to portray the surge in migrants as a threat to communities across the country, while Democrats accused them of fear-mongering and spreading misinformation.

It is open. The border is dangerous according to the congressman. International terrorists, criminals, and people from all over the world are pouring across the border.

The Biden administration disagrees with the idea that the border is open and argues it has had a decrease in illegal border crossing recently.

More than one million people were expelled by the Biden administration last year. The hearing was described as political theater by the committee’s ranking member, a Democrat from New York.

The Committee on Border Problems and Replacing Immigrants in South America: Brandon Dunn, Mark Dannels and Ricardo Samaniego

The committee heard testimony from Brandon Dunn, whose 15-year-old son died of fentanyl poisoning last year. A group called FOREVER 15 was started by the husband and wife duo.

But Republicans say there is a connection, because large numbers of migrants crossing the border are distracting Border Patrol agents from doing their jobs.

The committee heard from law enforcement officials in border communities who painted differing views on the current situation.

The border is “the worst I’ve seen it,” said Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County in southern Arizona. He says the Border Patrol agents are stretched thin trying to catch people who sneak through the desert.

“The morale of agents is extremely low, and the collective frustration is very high amongst law enforcement at all levels,” Dannels said. “This is the largest crime scene in this country.”

But the committee also heard from El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego, who described a completely different scenario. Samaniego said that the border in El Paso is not open and that migrants go to the Border Patrol for processing in an orderly fashion.

Local officials and nonprofit groups have been working closely with border patrol and other immigration authorities for years to deal with large numbers of migrants seeking protection in the U.S.

Several times, Republicans on the committee suggested that the Biden administration was deliberately encouraging migrants to cross the border illegally. The lawmaker from Texas referred to the migrants as “invasion” in order to describe their crossing the border.

Critics have linked that term to the so-called Replacement Theory, the false conspiracy theory that Democrats are deliberately trying to replace white Americans with immigrants of color for political gain.

“There is no invasion of migrants in our community. There are no hordes of immigrants committing crimes against citizens or causing havoc in our community. “Claiming this continues a false racist narrative.”