Joe betrayed us: deportees
Illegal immigrants deported from the United States back to Mexico are protesting that they thought President Biden would let them stay in America.
“Biden promised us that everything was going to change,” Honduran Gladys Oneida Pérez Cruz, 48, told The New York Times after being deported from the United States to Mexico under a policy drafted by former President Donald Trump to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The Biden administration has exempted unaccompanied minors, but in order to battle a surge in illegal border crossings, is dropping adult detainees and families on a bridge and telling them to walk back to Mexico.
Pérez and her son Henry, 23, who has cerebral palsy, hired smugglers to transport them across the border shortly after Biden’s inauguration in January.
The smugglers allegedly said the border was open and that they’d help her disabled son across — but neither claim was true.
Pérez’s sister in Maryland paid $9,000, but the family was apprehended and forced to go back to Mexico. They told the Times that they intended to return home to Central America.
The Times photographed another group of migrants forced to walk back to Mexico in shoes without shoelaces after being detained for illegally entering the United States.
That group also was under the impression that the new president would welcome them.
“Biden promised us!” one unidentified woman was described as wailing in disappointment.
Despite migrants saying that they believed he would welcome them, Biden has no plans to visit the border, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday at a White House briefing.
“His focus is on . . . pushing his team . . . to develop solutions that will expedite processing at the border, that will open more facilities that will ensure kids are treated with humanity and also treated safely,” she said.
Pressed further on whether the president would visit the crossing, Psaki stated there were no plans for a trip, and was still unable to put a hard date on the administration’s promise to let the press review conditions at border detention facilities.