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May 3, 2023

Biden Admin to Deploy 1,500 Troops to Border, Cuts Deportation Deal with Mexico as Title 42 Ends
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President Biden has ordered the deployment of 1,500 Army and Marine
Corps soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border for 90 days as the U.S.
prepares to lift the Trump-era Title 42 pandemic policy next week. For
the last three years, the measure has been used to quickly expel over
2.7 million migrants at the southern border without due process. There's
already 2,500 National Guard troops stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border
as the Biden administration has routinely cracked down on asylum
seekers.

Biden officials on Tuesday also reached a deal with Mexican President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador allowing the U.S. to continue to deport
non-Mexican migrants across the border into Mexico. Biden's latest move
was widely condemned by immigrant rights advocates, who've called out
his enforcement of asylum bans and anti-immigrant policies similar to
Trump's.

In related news, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has resumed
sending buses of asylum seekers to New York, according to Mayor Eric
Adams. It's been months since New York City last received buses of
asylum seekers, after thousands of people started arriving almost daily
since the fall.


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