‘Federal government has lost control’ of southern border, calls for Trump-era policies

Washington Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has sounded the alarm, declaring that the federal government has lost “operational control” of the southern border and calling for the restoration of Trump-era enforcement policies.

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In a bold statement, Gluesenkamp Perez, known for her centrist stance within the House of Representatives Democratic caucus, reiterated her plea for President Joe Biden to reimplement the previous administration’s key immigration policies. In particular, she called for the return of Remain in Mexico and Title 42, measures that were widely used during the Trump era but then phased out under the Biden administration.

The increase in illegal immigration at the southern border since Biden took office has been cause for concern, with millions of encounters with migrants reported in recent months. Gluesenkamp Perez emphasized the urgency of addressing this crisis and emphasized the need for decisive action to regain control.

“I think it has been one of the fundamental mistakes in immigration to debate whether or not immigration policies are motivated by racial animosity – and, by the way, I think many of them are. But a lot of people in rural and working-class communities like mine, we come from communities that have been decimated by fentanyl,” Gluesenkamp Perez noted during an NPR interview.

“We demand operational control of the southern border,” she claimed. ‘I mean that immigration itself is not the problem. The problem is that the US has no operational control over the southern border.”

As the debate over immigration policy intensifies, Gluesenkamp Perez’s call for a pragmatic approach underscores the need for bipartisan cooperation in addressing the complex challenges posed by border security and illegal immigration.