- Rodney Scott, who led the Border Patrol in the Trump and Biden administrations says, “Several factors have contributed to this backlog, but the massive increase that we’re seeing today can be directly attributed to the Biden administration’s border and immigration policies.”
- Scott also said that when the Biden administration went against the recommendations of experienced career border security professionals, terminated the Migrant Protection Protocols, canceled the Asylum Cooperative Agreements, and lowered the bar for credible fear determinations it “sent a message worldwide.
- “And opened the flood gates for anyone that could make up a sad story or recite the one that was provided to them by the cartel and so-called migrant aid organizations operating in Mexico,” Scott continued.
- The Trump administration implemented MPPs and the asylum agreements.
- The MPPs, more commonly known as the Remain in Mexico policy, requires some migrants seeking asylum to stay in Mexico as they await their immigration court date rather than be detained or released in the U.S.
- The agreements were negotiated with Central American countries to curtail asylum fraud and limit asylum access to the U.S.
