The Biden administration has announced plans to open migration centers in Guatemala and Colombia for asylum seekers heading to the U.S.-Mexico border — a bid to slow what’s expected to be a surge of migrants as pandemic-era immigration restrictions end.
But it is unclear whether the processing centers and other measures, including expedited processing for asylum-seekers and crackdowns on human smuggling networks, will do much to slow the tide of migrants fleeing from countries marred by political and economic strife.
“This is a hemispheric challenge that demands hemispheric solutions,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during a news conference as he outlined upcoming steps ahead of the May 11 deadline.
Mayorkas also warned that migrants and the human smugglers should not interpret the upcoming deadline to mean that the border is wide open: “Let me be clear, our border is not open and not will be open after May 11.”
The Biden administration, under attack by Republicans eager to paint the border as wide open under his leadership, has repeatedly warned that the end of the pandemic-era immigration restrictions does not mean that migrants should try to come to the U.S.
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