Biden’s border crisis has nothing to do with borders

My colleagues wrote: “For Americans, the most obvious sign of an increasing influx of immigrants is children.” The Biden administration continues the Trump era policy of expelling most unauthorized adult immigrants. But officials decided to accept unaccompanied children. However, the reality is more a continuation than a change. The same inadequate facilities that once housed thousands of minor asylum seekers under Trump are overcrowded again during the Biden era. Thousands of migrants are deported or expelled at the border every day. Local officials, aid workers and migrant advocates have longstanding complaints about a backlog of asylum claims and border authorities are poorly equipped to incubate fearful and desperate children. “The emergencies of the past decade are in fact three chapters of the same struggle: The mass exodus from Central America has been underway, as families and children have tried to escape violence, poverty and government corruption,” Jonathan Blitzer in New York wrote. “The border immigration system, built in the 1990s, with single adults seeking work from Mexico in mind, was not designed to deal with a group of asylum seekers on this scale. On average, it takes nearly two and a half years to resolve Asylum seek, and there are now a backlog of 1.3 million cases pending, up from half a million under Obama. ”On top of that, according to analysts, the new influx has started nearly a year since April. My colleagues reported, “but it has risen recently due to a combination of factors.” “Economic crises caused by epidemics, two hurricanes that devastated Central America, the end of strict lockdowns of the Coronavirus, and the perception that the Biden administration will be more tolerant of immigration.” The northern triangle is called: Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. For years, countries have suffered from devastating governance, natural disasters and epidemics of violence triggered by gangs and cartels. “If the alternative is starvation, gang violence, kidnapping, rape, or sexual slavery, won’t you bet on everything on a trip north?” More than its ultra-national predecessor, the Biden administration realizes that the solutions to what it describes as a “challenge” is on the border. Located in the south. Shortly after taking office, Biden announced a $ 4 billion plan to invest in the Northern Triangle countries – nearly doubling US aid to those countries through a list of programs aimed at helping improve the quality of life, restructuring security forces and combating both Gang violence and officials. corruption. Earlier this month, the White House named Vice President Harris as the lead person in its efforts to address the “root causes” of Central American migration northward, and then there is a long and indistinguishable record for the United States in trying to help develop and reform these countries. Why, after so many decades of systematic support by the United States directed at the structural challenges of Central America, has the situation in the region not significantly improved for millions of its people? Asked by Luis Guillermo Solis, former President of Costa Rica, in an article presenting the challenges facing US policymaking in the Northern Triangle. What are the factors that have hindered and continue to hinder the aspirations of Central Americans who endure the hardships of life dominated by fear, expulsion, disease, corruption and hunger? Solis pointed to a history of US agencies that have missed spending in the region, but more importantly, to a series of entrenched domestic factors: a legacy of “undemocratic, unfair, repressive, and opaque political systems, largely dominated by cronyism, authoritarian practices and state-sponsored violence The lack of respect for the rule of law “that has now resulted in states with weak institutions. Of course, in the past the United States played a major – and often negative – role in ensuring these clientelistic systems.” Now, though, the Biden administration may focus more on upgrading the emerging civil society in the region. There is a lot of corruption. It’s really endemic and pervasive through a lot of government structures, ” a US official told the Daily 202 Olivier Knox. “We will make sure that the right types of safeguards are in place so that we know our assistance has a real impact.”