Biden’s forcing sudden centrist migration

President Biden has recently found support from frontier Democrats for what they see as a new public strategy against him. immigration.

Zoom: Administration has a White House address and a Visit El PasoAll the while, Republicans prepared for investigations into the administration’s handling of the border.

• “I think for that matter, it’s shifting to where most of us want it to go. It’s shifted to the centre,” he said. Henry Cuellar, a moderate frontier Democrat from Texas, told Axios after his trip with Biden to the El Paso border.
• Representative Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), who accompanied the president to the border in her district, agreed last week that she signaled a change in strategy.
• Escobar told Axios that he thinks this is the right approach, and some of his more worried colleagues have emerged.

Between the lines: Immigration has long been a political minefield and governance struggled to politically address record numbers of border crossings.

Democrats bowed avoiding sensitive issues beyond pushing Trump policies, such as family separation.

• “As Democrats, we must have a message,” Cuellar said. “We can have both. We can treat immigrants with respect while maintaining security.”
• Biden’s decision to announce controversial new border policies from the White House and then visit the border drew attention. “The country needed to hear from him,” Escobar said.

Meanwhile, Republicans were more than happy to draw attention to immigration, especially with the efforts of some governors to make national headlines by moving immigrants from border states to Democratic enclaves.

What’s happening: The new policies, which would offer new temporary, legal avenues but reduce illegal border crossings and potentially make it harder for some immigrants to access asylum seekers, have sparked complaints from Democrats and advocates.

• Dream. Bob Menendez (DN.J.) made a harsh statement. Members of Congress Hispanic Group, Secretary of DHS to Majorca questions and concerns Behind closed doors, in a virtual meeting.
• Comparisons were made between Biden’s newly announced policies and those of former Trump official Stephen Miller. took it to twitter criticizing extended policy as “amnesty”.
• Escobar said he agreed 1000% with the relevant activists and Democrats on “I wish we could be where”, but we have a more realistic point of view as we live the truth on the ground.

What they say: “Expanding legal immigration routes, improving border security and reducing illegal immigration have been the guiding principles of President Biden’s approach to immigration from day one,” a White House official told Axios.

• He added that Biden “remains faithful to these principles, even as he shapes his response to changing immigration patterns, new court orders and continued inaction by Congress.”

Big picture: Biden embraced many of the priorities of progressive immigration advocates during the 2020 presidential election.

• He has made sweeping promises to end several Trump policies, follow the law to provide a path to naturalization for millions of undocumented immigrants, and end for-profit immigration detention.
• Since taking office, he has accomplished many of these goals and has repeatedly urged Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
• But a significant increase in border crossings, a change in immigration countries, and major logistical challenges facing federal agencies as well as border states have prompted him to take a more public stance on new border enforcement policies before 2024.

Underline: Some see a change but are not convinced that the new policies are enough.

• A Central American diplomat said that Biden had changed his strategy on immigration and that it was important for him to visit the border.
• However, the diplomat added that the new measures “will ease some of the pressures in the short term”. “They won’t fix the problem.”