New Waves of Migrants Hitting the U.S.-Mexico Border Pose Major Challenge for Biden Administration’s Latin America Policy

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In March 2021, the rising numbers of Central American migrants arriving in Northern Mexico have caused Republican critics of U.S. President Joe Biden to accuse him of encouraging migrants (apparently by not treating them with brutality). Democrats, for their part, maintain that the Trump administration left behind a broken system, with thousands of minors still being held in detention centers at the border. The Biden administration insists that it will follow a more humane course of action, and end the Trump era polices that separated children from their families or made asylum seekers wait in Mexico. Observers agree that the United States could be facing the biggest migrant influx to its southern border in two decades. Mexican and Central American pundits wrestled with the issues.

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