This Thursday night, “Title 42”, a parallel wall invoked by former President Donald Trump, ended. According to the Republican Party, the Democrats lost “operational control” of the border.
The Republican representatives of USAapproved this Thursday in the House of Representatives a bill that extends the wall on the border with Mexico and restricts access to asylumcoinciding with the end of the border restriction linked to the pandemic.
This Thursday night the “Title 42”, a parallel wall invoked by former President Donald Trump during the pandemic to supposedly stop covid-19, but in practice it was used almost 2.8 million times with the aim of expelling migrants to prevent them from obtaining asylum.
According to the Republican Party, Democrats lost “operational control” of the borderthrough which he affirms that fentanyl enters, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times more powerful than heroin.
In this context and in the last few hours, the US management reinforced the area with a double barbed wire fence for those who stand on the edge of the fence. In addition, a reinforcement of the military and security forces was generated at the border: 1,500 Marines and military on surveillance duty and 450 elite men from the Texas National Guard joined the 20,000 agents of the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
On the other hand, the implementation of the black hawksmedium-duty military utility helicopters, twin-engines with a four-blade rotor and manufactured by the American company Sikorsky Aircraft, in an area that already had drones to monitor migrants and with heat sensors in the Wallwhich capture eyes and hands.
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Republicans go for the construction of the wall
Following the completion of “Title 42” this Thursday at midnight, the GOP relaunched the Border Security Bill 2023which seeks to continue with the initiative proposed by Donald Trump during his term: the construction of a wall along the 3,145 kilometers (1,954 miles) of the border between the United States and Mexico.
The bill was approved in the House of Representatives. with 219 votes in favor and 213 againstalthough there are few prospects of prospering in the Senate, where the Democrats have a majority.
At the time, the former Republican president began construction and extended a wall of 727 kilometers with US taxpayer money along the US-Mexico border.
The initiative has various prohibitions and conditions for migrants:
- It hinders access to temporary humanitarian and asylum permits.
- Mandatory condition to access asylum: that the person have filed the application in a country transit and was denied.
- Prohibits processing requests who do not present themselves at a port of entry
- Hardens the requirements to pass calls credible fear interviewswhich assess whether there is a possibility that the person will be persecuted or tortured if they return to their country.
Source: Ambito
