The Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, He assured this on Thursday US can regularize the more than eleven million undocumented migrants who live in the country, while ‘protect’ the border with Mexico.
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“I believe we can honor our heritage as a nation of immigrants and reform our broken immigration system,” the leader said in her acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination at the party convention in Chicago.
The vice president, in turn, promised to revive and permanently write it into law controversial immigration pact, achieved in a two-pronged manner, which imposed the greatest limitations asylum system dwarfs.
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‘I refuse to play political games with our security and here is my promise: as president, I will bring back politics two-tier border security law“Harris performed in front of a lively audience, who welcomed her to the stage with shouts and applause.
The agreement, which was heavily criticized by human rights groups and failed to gain enough support to pass a vote, did not provide any option for legalization of migrants already in the United States or for people seeking to immigrate to the country.
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Harris noted in her speech that the pact was supported at the time by the Border Patrol union and made no specific mention of how it would provide a path to citizenship for people living without legal status.
The brief mention of migration management in Harris’ speech marks a difference from the current president’s campaign Joe Biden in 2020where he highlighted his differences with the former president Donald Trump on this front and promised to ‘repair’ the country’s asylum system.
After the bill Harris promised to revive today failed, Biden began a series of executive actions similar restrictions with the provisions included in the text, which prohibit the majority of people who cross the border illegally from applying for asylum.
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The pressure from the Republican Party’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and the possibility of a close election race in November have prompted the Democratic administration to sharpen its rhetoric on migration and take measures to stop people from crossing the southern border.
These rules, along with close cooperation with Mexico to block routes and detain migrants, have seen irregular crossings fall to a four-year low.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have arrived at the southern border of the United States, the world’s largest economy, so far this year in search of better opportunities and fleeing the deep sea. social crises and policies in countries such as Venezuela, Nicaragua or Haiti.
The entire Americas is recording large numbers of people movements, with more than 21 million people currently displaced, according to data from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Source: El heraldo
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