“We are going to control it”: Joe Biden on the situation at the border with Mexico

The president of the United States, Joe biden, promised this Tuesday that he will put “under control“The situation on the border with Mexico, which thousands of migrants, mostly Haitians, have gone through in recent days.

“We’re gonna put it under controll, ”Biden said in a brief statement to the press as he left United Nations headquarters after delivering his first speech as president to the United Nations General Assembly.

The US president thus responded to a question about his reaction to the images of the situation at the border, but it is not clear whether his answer referred to the volume of immigrants who gathered in the area or to the photographs of the way immigrants Border patrol officers.

One of these photographs shows a white border patrol officer on a horse grabbing a black immigrant by the shirt while apparently hitting him with what looks like a whip on the American side of the Rio Grande, which separates that country from the Mexico. .

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki crossed out on Monday as “horrible“This treatment of migrants and claimed that, while it is confirmed that officers carried whips and beat undocumented migrants with them, “Of course they should never be able to do that again”.

And US Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters on Tuesday she thought “horrible” to concern “how they treated these human beings“Border patrol officers and that the matter is under investigation.

However, the Biden government has started to deport the more than 13,000 migrants, mostly Haitians, who have arrived in the town of Del Río (Texas) in recent days and has argued that “now is not the time”. .

The leader of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate, Chuck Schumer, harshly criticized on Tuesday Biden’s decision to expel migrants en masse to Haiti, in the grip of a crisis after the assassination and the earthquake of recent months.

“I urge President Biden and Secretary (of Homeland Security Alejandro) Mayorkas to immediately end these deportations and the Title 42 policy on the southern border,” Schumer said in a speech to the Senate.

The senator was referring to a pandemic-protected policy known as Title 42 whereby the United States automatically deported most undocumented migrants who arrive at its southern border, without giving them the opportunity to seek asylum. .

“We cannot continue with these policies full of hatred and xenophobia, (typical of former President Donald) Trump, which flout our refugee lawsexclaimed Schumer.

EFE

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