Biden Immigration Changes Raise Hopes, Concerns on US-Mexico Border

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Biden Immigration Changes Raise Hopes, Concerns on US-Mexico Border
By Elizabeth Lee
March 5, 2021 06:04 PM
 

On the day U.S. President Joe Biden took office, he began dismantling former President Donald Trump’s policies at the southern U.S.-Mexico border. 

Biden rescinded Trump’s declaration of a national emergency, suspended construction of Trump’s controversial border wall, and vowed to end governmental practices of migrant family separation and rapid-fire deportations. 

The abrupt shift in policy almost overnight changed conditions and migrant expectations along the border – renewing hope for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Mexico and Central America of a return to more porous borders and pathways to legal status. But it also raised the concern of law enforcement officials and residents about a return of caravans, chaos and potential for violence.

https://www.voanews.com/usa/immigration/biden-immigration-changes-raise-hopes-concerns-us-mexico-border?amp

[rangerrebew]

Where do these "poor," "destitute" asylum seekers get the money to buy all those T-shirts?

[Fishrrman]

We are quickly transforming from having a border that had largely been brought under control by Mr. Trump, to one where there are no effective or meaningful controls at all...