{"id":536976,"date":"2023-01-07T23:35:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T20:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hispanic-caucus-split-between-rage-and-lukewarm-reception-to-bidens-new-border-plan\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T23:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T20:35:12","slug":"hispanic-caucus-split-between-rage-and-lukewarm-reception-to-bidens-new-border-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hispanic-caucus-split-between-rage-and-lukewarm-reception-to-bidens-new-border-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hispanic Caucus split between rage and lukewarm reception to Biden\u2019s new border plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2571a7bc080\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2571a7bc080\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hispanic-caucus-split-between-rage-and-lukewarm-reception-to-bidens-new-border-plan\/#Hispanic_Caucus_split_between_rage_and_lukewarm_reception_to_Bidens_new_border_plan\" >Hispanic Caucus split between rage and lukewarm reception to Biden\u2019s new border plan<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hispanic_Caucus_split_between_rage_and_lukewarm_reception_to_Bidens_new_border_plan\"><\/span>Hispanic Caucus split between rage and lukewarm reception to Biden\u2019s new border plan<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/AP22354087218611.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s plan to crack down at the border in exchange for some expanded legal pathways of entry for migrants received a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly tepid response from Hispanic Democrats, though some in the group were incensed that they were sidelined in favor of developing a policy many worry treads too closely to Trump-era immigration efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration announced Thursday it would expand Title 42 limitations that allow them to turn away asylum-seekers, pairing it with a pledge to allow some 30,000 Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans and Haitians into the U.S. through a separate program.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Rep. Nanette Diaz Barrag\u00e1n (D-Calif.), in her first major statement as chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), praised the administration\u2019s expanded legal pathways but expressed dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment with the Title 42 expansion at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a nation of immigrants, we must have a humane, efficient, and professional immigration system that reflects our American values,\u201d Barrag\u00e1n said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Congressional Hispanic Caucus welcomes the Administration\u2019s efforts to expand legal pathways for refugees and asylum seekers but is disappointed with the expansion of the failed Trump-era Title 42 policy that has denied asylum seekers their rights to due process for far too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), a former CHC chair, released his own statement later Friday, issuing a strongly worded condemnation of the administration\u2019s plans that contrasted with the careful balance adopted by Barrag\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply disappointed to see the Biden administration extending failed Trump-era immigration policies that exacerbate chaos and irregular migration at the Southern border,\u201d Castro said.<\/p>\n<p>Castro said he \u201cappreciates\u201d the administration\u2019s expanded legal pathway, but panned the transit ban and parole requirements \u201cwillfully dismissive of the realities facing asylum seekers.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cInstead of making concessions to the same reactionaries who have spent decades opposing immigration reform, the Biden administration should work with Congress to develop smart immigration policy that meets our nation\u2019s economic needs, upholds our fundamental values, and addresses the root causes of migration,\u201d said Castro.<\/p>\n<p>And the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) weighed in after a call on the policy with Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>CPC Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and CPC Immigration Task Force Chairman Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda (D-Ill.) \u2014 also a CHC member \u2014 put out their own statement, taking a more forceful tone than Barrag\u00e1n, but less combative than Castro.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Jayapal and Garc\u00eda called on President Biden to \u201creconsider this proposal\u201d though they lauded its expanded legal pathways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the new Department of Homeland Security proposal also includes expanding the use of Title 42, a public health law weaponized by Donald Trump to deny legal rights to asylum seekers, as well as potential regulations that would restrict the legal right to seek asylum. That is unacceptable,\u201d Jayapal and Garc\u00eda wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Barrag\u00e1n\u2019s statement came a day after CHC members met with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the Capitol for what turned into a heated briefing on the new policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>At the meeting, two CHC members, Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.), grilled Mayorkas, pushing the secretary to say why they weren\u2019t consulted during the planning process of the new policy.<\/p>\n<p>Menendez, in particular, was \u201cpretty lit\u201d as he tore into Mayorkas, according to several people in the room, and Luj\u00e1n \u201clet him have it\u201d over the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS) failure to include CHC input in planning.<\/p>\n<p>Menendez went so far as to quote a Biden campaign pledge to Mayorkas, when the then-Democratic nominee ripped then-President Trump over his \u201csafe third country agreements\u201d proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The new Biden immigration proposal mimics the Trump push in that it penalizes migrants who transit away from their current location by making them ineligible to claim asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Mayorkas did not respond to a question Friday on why the administration did not consult its allies in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>One CHC member complained the new policy \u201cbreathes new life\u201d into Title 42.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are upset that a Democratic administration would expand the policy that Stephen Miller put in place under Donald Trump. There are some good things about what\u2019s being proposed: allowing people to apply for asylum if they have a sponsor, and providing work permits. But there\u2019s a big downside to it, which is the expansion of Title 42. Title 42 is supposed to be wound down and this seems to breathe new life into it,\u201d the member said.<\/p>\n<p>But the senators\u2019 ire was not shared by all in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>While Barrag\u00e1n shared other CHC members\u2019 concerns over elements of the policy, including that it essentially amounts to a thinly veiled transit ban, she said the conversation with Mayorkas was \u201cconstructive.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Other members, including the two senators, who put out a harshly critical statement Thursday alongside Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), were much less generous about the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Barrag\u00e1n added in her statement that members \u201cmade clear that the CHC must be consulted on all policies regarding the border and immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), a vice chair of the CHC, said he shared his colleagues\u2019 concerns with the plan but praised Mayorkas as a DHS chief who \u201chas strong empathy and more support than anybody else in that position before him for immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Espaillat said the administration and other stakeholders were missing the core issue that\u2019s created the migrant crisis, a \u201ccrisis of democracy in the Americas.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe real issue here is, what\u2019s happening in the Americas? Why are these people leaving their families behind and coming here? What are the compelling reasons that are forcing women to take their kids and walk thousands of miles, to put their lives in danger to get to America?\u201d Espaillat said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless that\u2019s addressed, it going to be very difficult. \u2026 I understand that\u2019s not going to happen overnight, but we must begin to address those issues and I think we have not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The different takes reflect divisions within the CHC, where some members see immigration as the keystone issue for U.S. Hispanics, while others view it as a legacy topic that\u2019s lost political punch to issues like the economy, education and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>And the political reality of border security is felt differently by members who represent border districts, particularly in Texas, which often bear disproportionate costs in times of heightened migration.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), a top advocate for migrant rights who\u2019s at times butted heads with Democratic leadership over immigration, recognized the different political realities faced by some of his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do know some people at the border, their communities are bearing a lot of the brunt of this refugee crisis. And so they\u2019re looking for some solutions, so they may be more open to those solutions then others,\u201d Correa told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Correa struck at the center of the Biden administration\u2019s plan \u2014 an expansion of Title 42 expulsions \u2014 noting the border policy\u2019s core precept is defunct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Title] 42 should not even be part of the immigration debate, because it\u2019s a health care issue, not an immigration weapon,\u201d said Correa, alluding to the original stated rationale for Title 42, that it would be used to keep the coronavirus from crossing the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Other CHC members noted that the administration\u2019s promises to open new pathways for migrants could fail to pan out.<\/p>\n<p>One member noted, for instance, that promises to aggressively expand the refugee program have been made before with paltry results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at what\u2019s happened with the refugee situation where they propose a number of 125,000 refugees, but accepted in actuality only a low number. So to me, it doesn\u2019t really matter what your number is in principle \u2014 what\u2019s your number in practice? So if they\u2019re going to set this number and say 30,000 per month is it, the number that can come in, yeah, but how many are you actually going to allow to come in?\u201d they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Administration officials are already touting the early success of the program, however.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols said on Friday that sign-ups for the program are already in the thousands, just a day after it was announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThousands of people have already applied and it\u2019s been a day. The application is free. There\u2019s no cost \u2014 that comes in contrast to people paying migrant smugglers,\u00a0polleros, coyotes,\u00a0you can use whatever term you want, 1000s of dollars for a risky journey with no guarantee of entry into the United States,\u201d Nichols said at a Wilson Center conference previewing Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to Mexico City on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the the policies that the president has announced will provide legal pathways for some 30,000 people a month from countries where there\u2019s a significant demand and that will prevent people from putting their lives at risk through a perilous journey,\u201d added Nichols.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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