Every day, up to 1,000 illegal immigrants are apprehended on the US border with Mexico.
Biden's government has to cope with a crisis - and receives a lot of criticism.
Washington, DC - Joe Biden faces his first "new" crisis as president.
The American border guards are currently attacking more people on the US border with Mexico than they have been in five years.
In an interview with
Fox News,
border guard officer Chris Cabrera assumes
that there are between 700 and 1000 migrants every day, and the number is rising.
Some of the refugees are unaccompanied minors who cannot simply be deported.
Joe Biden is coming under increasing pressure with his immigration policy
Biden has announced that he will reform US immigration policy and wants to reverse many of the resolutions passed around the migration policy of his predecessor Donald Trump.
He called this a "moral and national disgrace".
Above all, the separation of migrant families at the border should be prevented.
At the same time, refugees should no longer wait in Mexico for a decision on their asylum application.
Due to the corona pandemic, Donald Trump introduced an emergency rule so that asylum seekers can be deported immediately.
This is still in force, but does not apply to minors.
Many refugees are hoping for asylum through Biden's presidency, which is probably one of the reasons why the number of migrants in front of the US border is rising sharply.
Joe Biden receives criticism: Trump's emergency shelters reopened for young people
The problem with the increasing numbers of refugees is that more children are now crossing the border than there are accommodations, said Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the White House.
Therefore, Donald Trump's emergency shelters were reopened in Texas to make room for the young people.
The Democratic MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sharply criticized this approach and wrote on Twitter: "This is not okay, has never been okay and will never be okay - regardless of government or party."
The Republicans blame Joe Biden for the situation.
He is said to have caused the situation at the border through his statements.
Last Friday, ex-President Trump had already spoken out about his successor's migration policy.
"Our border is now completely out of control because of Joe Biden's disastrous leadership." Biden's spokeswoman denied this allegation and described immigration policies of the past four years as "not only inhuman, but ineffective".
(Dana Popp)
