President Biden’s Border Czar, -Vice President Kamala Harris said the climate crisis is a driving factor for the influx of migrants illegally crossing the U.S border and migrants seeking asylum.
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In the wake of FBI warnings of Elevated levels of terrorist threats at the southern borders; is there a National Security Border Funding in sight?
“Since being tasked with the migrant illegal crossings Vice President Harris focused on tackling the root causes.
Harris occasionally has talked about the climate crisis in relation to Biden’s Green New Deal policies.
Tripling Refugee Resettlement from the Western Hemisphere. The Biden-Harris Administration intends to welcome up to 20,000 refugees from Latin American and Caribbean countries during Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024, putting the United States on pace to more than triple refugee admissions from the Western Hemisphere this Fiscal Year alone. This delivers on the President’s commitment under the Los Angeles Declaration for Migration and Protection to scale up refugee admissions
Since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7th, an array of violence, and pro-Hamas demonstrations across college campuses makes the southern border a target of interest and consideration for national security to alert levels of terrorist concerns and terrorism cells at the Custom Border disturbing messages have been conveyed by FBI Director Secretary Fray, efforts as the situation along the US-Mexico border has become a national security vulnerability in recent days. “
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/politics/kamala-harris-migration/index.html
Expand Legal Pathways for Safe, Orderly, and Humane Migration
The Biden-Harris Administration and its international partners in the region are also announcing new and expanded legal pathways to the United States and other countries that individuals can and should use to avoid consequences for crossing the border unlawfully.
Border Patrol chiefs have acknowledged to Congress that the release of migrants into nearby communities is an incentive for others to attempt illegal border crossings, according to transcripts obtained by Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/07/border-patrol-migrants-release-attract-illegal-crossings
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