Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the Biden administration’s efforts to reform immigration policy amid an increase in undocumented migrants at the border with Mexico in an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday.
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“I come at this issue from the perspective that most people don’t want to leave home,” Harris said on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked how she would define success in her role leading the Biden administration’s efforts to stem the growing number of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Two groups within conservative mega-donor Charles Koch’s political network called on the Biden administration Thursday to release all the temporary worker visas allocated by Congress for fiscal 2021.
President Biden overruled his top foreign policy and national security aides, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, when he kept in place the Trump administration’s record low cap on the number of refugees admitted to the United States, according to three people familiar with the matter, a decision that was reversed after a public outcry.
Even though President Joe Biden has moved to reverse many of his predecessor’s anti-immigration policies, the consequences of those restrictive measures linger and have contributed to a massive backlog of nearly 2.6 million visa applications.
