The Biden administration is telling immigration agents to prepare to process hundreds of thousands of migrant families and asylum claims as the White House moves to reverse Trump-era border and coronavirus policies, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
"Border Patrol agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and customs officers are stretched thin trying to protect and secure our border," said the official.
Some now question their mission as they prepare for humanitarian crises on the border after the end of Title 42 and Trump's "Remain in Mexico Policy."
Agents on the southern border noted that the president and the CDC are warning about the COVID-19 Delta variant while the federal government ends critical policies that allowed law enforcement to ensure migrants who carry disease are not allowed entry into the country.
One individual familiar with internal agency discussions said the Biden administration's dismissive approach to Cuban and Haitian migrants is shaped in part by the agency's limited resources.
The job of processing thousands of migrants per week on the southern border will require an all-hands effort from immigration officials that leaves little flexibility to address a potential surge from those trying to escape the dueling Caribbean crises.
"The heavy lifting we've been doing since January portends that this is unlike anything we've ever seen, especially because we're utilizing Border Patrol and discussing bringing in ICE to help. The lift across all of DHS is pretty unprecedented," an individual familiar with the plan said.
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