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US planning to accept up to 30,000 migrants monthly under expanded humanitarian program

January 5, 2023 Published by

Just In | The Hill 

The United States is expanding a border control program that pairs migrant expulsions with a limited number of pre-approved entries per month, according to reports.

Under the program, the United States would take in up to 30,000 Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans each month, while ramping up efforts to detain and expel migrants who show up at the border unauthorized.

The plan was first reported by Reuters.

President Biden is scheduled to address migration later Thursday, ahead of a trip to Mexico City and a border town. Biden will unveil the program at the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Politico reported.

Biden will be in Mexico City for the North American Leaders’ Summit, where he will meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The meeting with López Obrador will be especially relevant to the administration’s border plans — the new program is essentially an expansion of an earlier program to manage Venezuelan migrants that required Mexican collaboration.

The program essentially gives pre-approval to a number of foreign nationals, who for the most part must enter the United States by air, while cracking down on land entrants, who are immediately expelled either to Mexico or their home countries.

The expulsions mimic those carried out under Title 42 — the controversial border program that  denies migrants their right to claim asylum on public health grounds related to the pandemic — but include countries like Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua that have refused to take in Title 42 expellees.

While Haiti has taken in more than 25,000 of its citizens under Title 42, the Biden administration has come under intense criticism for denying asylum processing to nationals of a near-failed state.

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