Biden's Overhaul of U.S.-Mexico Border Policy Faces Early Challenges

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🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday that the Biden Administration will seek to reunite hundreds of migrant children with their families -- either in the United States or in their country of origin -- who were separated under Trump-era zero tolerance policies. The pledge comes as officials undertake a massive overhaul of the nation’s border policies, including the elimination of Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols, which required asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their claims were processed. We’ll talk about what the policy shifts mean and how immigration officials plan to handle what Mayorkas calls a “stressful challenge” at the border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.3	Noting the quote, cruelty of the Trump administration's family separation policy,
1:30.6	Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said yesterday that the Biden administration
1:35.4	will seek to reunite some migrant children still separated from their parents in the United
1:40.5	States, where they may be allowed to stay.
1:42.9	The pledge comes as officials try to
1:44.8	overhaul the nation's border policies, including undoing Trump's so-called remain-in-Mexico
1:50.3	policy for people seeking asylum. We'll look at the impact of these changes and how officials
1:55.7	plan to handle an uptick of unaccompanied minors headed to the border. Forum is next after this news.
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