Texas Scorecard by Emily Wilkerson May 3, 2023
With Title 42 coming to an end, President Biden has approved sending 1,500 troops to help Border Patrol.As the deadline for Title 42 hovers over border states, President Joe Biden has approved sending 1,500 U.S. troops to the southern border.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the move will do nothing to stop illegal immigration.
Title 42 was issued at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and was designed to allow customs enforcement to send illegal aliens from “COVID-19 impacted” countries—such as Canada and Mexico—back to their country of origin without processing them.
However, Title 42 is set to expire May 11, with many border states and cities bracing for the worst.
The city of El Paso has already declared a state of emergency in expectation of the surge.
During a White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that illegal immigration has decreased by more than 90 percent since Biden implemented the parolee program. However, according to current statistics from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol has already encountered over 1.2 million illegal aliens at the southwest border in Fiscal Year 2023. In the entirety of Fiscal Year 2022, Border Patrol agents saw more than 2 million.
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https://texasscorecard.com/federal/biden-to-send-troops-to-border-to-help-process-illegal-aliens/
