According to Russian media reports, the U.S.-Mexico border has not been very calm recently, and the problem of illegal immigration has been enough to "annoy" Biden, and now he has to be busy cleaning up the "mess" left by the Trump administration.
On November 6, local time, U.S. President Joe Biden said he supported "some kind of compensation" for migrant families separated at the border. Just a few days ago, he called a report that the U.S. plans to compensate discrete illegal immigrants $450,000 each as "garbage."
Biden was reportedly asked to clarify his position on compensating separated immigrant families when talking about the $1 trillion infrastructure plan passed by the U.S. Congress that day. In response, Biden accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of "outrageous" policies on border issues, which have separated numerous immigrant families and led to the U.S. Department of Justice now facing thousands of lawsuits.
Biden said: "In fact, because of the rough behavior of the previous administration, if you cross the border, whether it is legal or illegal, you will lose your children. In either case, the person who is forced to separate from the child deserves some kind of compensation. What that (compensation) will be, I don't know. ”
Biden's position on the issue has caused some confusion. Republicans have been adamantly opposed to compensating separated immigrant families. Some people believe that in today's us supply chain problems, energy shortages, and soaring prices, if compensation comes true, it will give those "hard-working" Americans a "slap" in the face.
On October 28, US media quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the US government is considering compensating 450,000 US dollars per person for illegal immigrant families who were "separated" because of the strict "zero tolerance" border immigration policy during the Trump administration, because members of these families said that the US government's law enforcement policies "have caused them to suffer lasting psychological trauma."
On November 3, Biden refuted the report in front of the media, calling it "garbage": "$450,000 per person is unlikely." ”
The White House spent the next few days trying to clarify Biden's position, not giving a specific answer to the question, but saying Biden simply referred to specific numbers as "garbage."
Biden said nov. 6 that he "doesn't know" what the end result will be, but he doubled down on stressing that "the rumored $450,000 won't happen."
For some time now, the problem of illegal immigration in the United States has been serious. U.S. Customs and Border Protection released data last month showing that U.S. law enforcement arrested about 1.7 million immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2021 (October 1, last year to September 30 this year), the highest value ever recorded in 1960. At the same time, there are constantly US media reports on the separation of immigrant families at the border, or incidents of extortion and beatings, which has aroused widespread criticism of the US government's immigration policy.
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