"President Joe Biden on Sunday finally visited the Southern U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, after tensions over migration to the United States have been simmering for months.
These, for example, included the busing of migrants north from the Southern U.S. - at times approved by Republican governors. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz notes, ahead of the visit, the Biden Administration had unveiled a new policy, denying migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti the right to claim asylum at the Mexican border, instead opening up entry quotas for these nations.
The move has been widely condemned by advocates and human rights organizations for restricting the universal right to claim asylum.
As seen in numbers by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the fiscal year of 2019 saw a first spike in undocumented migrants apprehended at the Southern U.S. border, caused by arrivals from Central America. The fact that these migrants often travel in family units while fleeing from violence then gave rise to the infamous Trump-era policy of jailing undocumented immigrants while separating them from any children they might have been traveling with (in the same manner as any US citizen accused of an illegal act is not held with their children).
Another Trump administration policy, dubbed Remain in Mexico, is in use until today - two years after Biden took office - after judges blocked its termination, negotiations with Mexico stretched and finally the dismantling of the program became another case for the courts."
