Biden Sends Border Czar To Meet With Mexican Officials Amid Crisis

Whatever it's called, the arrival of some 10,000 unaccompanied minors on the southern border has attracted the administration's attention.

"The border is not open," the official reiterated.

Jacobson quickly corrected herself, clarifying again in Spanish, "La frontera está cerrada." Translation: "The border is closed."

While Biden would much rather focus the public's attention on the $1.9 trillion stimulus that he signed into law and the millions of COVID-19 vaccines his administration is delivering, the border chaos continues to dog the new president.

"Because his focus is on action and taking actions and moving forward policies to ensure we are expediting the processing at the border, that we are opening more facilities, that we are putting in place policies that will move kids more quickly through the Border Patrol facilities, more quickly into safe and secure homes," Psaki said.

Biden moved quickly to remove Trump's fingerprints from immigration policy beginning on Day One, suspending construction of the border wall, proposing a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, and ordering a 100-day moratorium on deportations.

The White House has rejected attacks by Republicans that Biden has encouraged migrants with his rhetoric, and on Monday Psaki told reporters that the administration is working hard to tell would-be border crossers that now is not the time to come.
 

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