Biden shifts blame for immigration crisis ahead of first border visit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Throughout both the press conference and the fact sheet, the administration contended that the actions unveiled Thursday would not wholly solve the problem of illegal immigration and pointed to congressional Republicans as the reason behind the failure to achieve that goal.
67% : Ahead of his remarks, the White House released a fact sheet outlining new actions the administration was taking to address the surge in illegal immigration.
60% : The president also touted an app called CBP ONE, which he explained enables migrants "to schedule an appointment at a port of entry and make their asylum claim there without crossing the border unlawfully."
53% : Biden gave a speech on immigration at the White House Thursday as he faces growing pressure to visit the U.S.-Mexico border amid a surge in illegal immigration.
53% : In the first two months of fiscal year 2023, which began in October, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reported 465,034 encounters between migrants and border officials at the Southwest border.
53% : With 233,740 encounters between migrants and law enforcement officials, November 2022 marked the fourth consecutive month of increases in border crossings, which reached a high of 241,136 in May 2022.
51% : After his speech concluded, a reporter asked the president why he thought right now constituted the "right time to visit the southern border," recalling how "Republicans have been begging you to do this since the beginning."
50% : Ahead of the anticipated surge in migrants seeking asylum that will accompany the lifting of Title 42, the Biden administration indicated that "DHS and DOJ are surging asylum officers and immigration judges to review asylum cases at the border more quickly - with the aim of reducing initial processing times from months to days."
47% : Critics point to the abolishing of the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, which required those seeking asylum in the U.S. to stay in Mexico while their cases were adjudicated, as well as the weakening of Title 42 as the sources of the surge.
38% : According to the fact sheet, "While these steps will help address some of the most acute challenges at the Southwest border, they will not solve all of the problems in an immigration system that has been broken for far too long." "That can only happen if Republicans in Congress who have spent the past two years talking about border security quit blocking the comprehensive immigration reform and border security measures President Biden proposed on his first day in office, and opposing the billions of dollars in additional funds the President has requested for border security and management."

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