The United States will deploy an additional 1,500 soldiers to the border with Mexico who “will not directly participate in law enforcement activities,” given a foreseeable increase in migrants when the rule blocking many of those attempting to enter is lifted. Will be cancelled.

On May 11, the controversial Title 42 health regulation will be lifted, which allows for the immediate blocking or deportation of the vast majority of migrants arriving at the border without the need for a visa or documentation to enter.

Since this rule came into effect with the alleged intent to stop the pandemic, US authorities have deterred migrants from applying for asylum more than 2.7 million times. More than 160,000 people tried to enter in March alone.

The administration of Democratic President Joe Biden, a candidate for re-election in the 2024 presidential election, knows that the lifting Title 42 is likely to skyrocket the number of border crossings and prepare for it.

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“At the request of the Department of Homeland Security” (DHS), Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “approved a temporary increase (…) of 1,500 additional military personnel to complement the efforts of the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ),’ Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said in a statement.

Defense Department personnel “have supported CBP at the border for nearly two decades,” so “it’s common practice,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre clarified during a daily news conference. They will also perform “administrative duties,” he said.

According to the Pentagon They will be busy for 90 days with tasks such as detection, monitoring or data entry until CBP can take care of them by hiring staff.

“Military personnel will not be directly involved in police activities,” says Ryder.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security acknowledges that it has asked for assistance “because of an expected increase in migration”. but agrees that Defense Department personnel “will not interact with migrants or other individuals in DHS custody.”

Various measures

DHS recognizes that time is running out and is attempting to address the issue on multiple fronts.

At the end of April, he announced several measures, such as the opening of centers in Colombia and Guatemala to pre-select migrants to enter the country.

It also promises to “simplify” the processes of. family reunification permit for Cubans and Haitians and will extend it to citizens of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia.

The CBP One application remains in effect, allowing migrants from Mexico to schedule a time and place to show up at a port of entry.

And it will continue quota imports of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

But Washington has been warning for months that “the border will not be open” and will apply Title 8, which will allow for deportation of all migrants who are not allowed to enter and, unlike Title 42, will penalize them with a return suspension of at least five years if they try again, as well as possible criminal charges.

None of this would be necessary, the White House insists, if Congress “did its job,” Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday in a critique of Republicans, who oppose border reform and accuse Biden of not knowing how to have to deal with “Border chaos.

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Biden has ended the construction of the wall that his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, wanted to build on the border with Mexico, but has broken his pledge of immigration reform to open the way to citizenship for millions of migrants and especially those’ dreamers’, the young people who came to the United States as children.

And it is that Biden’s room for maneuver has been very limited since the beginning of his term and especially now, with Congress divided: the Senate in the hands of the Democrats and the House of Representatives with a small Republican majority.

It also doesn’t help that radical Republicans rule in some states and that the Supreme Court is clearly conservative.