President Joe Biden announced plans Thursday to ramp up fast-tracked deportations and expand pathways for some migrants to enter the country legally, part of the administration’s efforts to rein in record-high border crossings.
Biden said Mexico had agreed to accept 30,000 migrants each month from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua — four countries he said now account for the majority of migrants crossing into Mexico en route to the U.S. border — who cross the U.S. border without authorization. Mexico has already agreed to accept some migrants from Central America.
In turn, the administration will create a new program that would allow that same number of migrants from those four nations each month to apply to come to the U.S. legally under a temporary immigration status known as parole, Biden said.
