WASHINGTON. Tragedy on the southern border of the United States: a 9-year-old Mexican boy died while trying to cross the Rio Grande to enter American territory. This was announced by the US authorities. Rescuers managed to revive and save a Guatemalan woman and her three-year-old son found unconscious. It is not clear whether there is a family relationship between the latter two and the victim. The episode is destined to create a sensation when an unprecedented flow of migrant children is registered at the border between Mexico and the United States, an emergency that is putting Joe Biden’s White House in crisis, criticized for the absence of a response so far effective.
On the issue of immigration, “the truth is that nothing has changed. Many people came, with a 28% increase in unaccompanied children at the border during my administration, and 31% in the last year in 2019 before the pandemic in the Trump administration. It happens every year, ”said US President Joe Biden in his first press conference. «There is always an increase in people who want to enter the winter months, does anyone mean that there was a 31% increase because he was a” good “person and did well at the border? This is not the case, but because at this moment they are less likely to die during the journey due to the heat in the desert and because there are special circumstances in which the country is facing the problem, “he added. And again: «The vast majority of the flow of immigrants crossing the border is sent back. What we are trying to do is rebuild the immigration system. There is a leap of migrants every year ”. In support of their thesis and the transparency of the Administration, journalists will be able to enter the overcrowded migrant centers on the border between the United States and Mexico when “my plan, soon, will allow you to have access not only to these, but also to other facilities, ”Biden said. This will happen «as soon as it is possible to implement what we are working on at the moment». Biden, who did not provide a roadmap for the implementation of his “plan”, explained that he did not “go down” to the border, so as not to “become the problem” and avoid that attention is focused on he. Answering the questions, the president also reiterated that he was convinced of the decision to cancel some of the immigration policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump: “All the policies in place have not helped at all, have not slowed the flow of migrants or decreased the number of people arriving. And I don’t apologize for canceling policies that separate children from their mothers. ”
Former US President Donald Trump replied to his successor Joe Biden, referring to the sender the accusations against him on the treatment of migrant children at the border and on the management of immigration, pronounced by the Democrat in the first press conference of his term. “It is the opposite. At the end of what we were doing “at the border,” few people came because they knew they wouldn’t go through, said Trump. “If the kids were with their parents, but many times they weren’t, and we took care of them, but… what they’re doing now is shameful. And they should complete the wall, ”he continued interviewed for Fox News.