President Joe Biden’s administration has released a plan to deal with the expected surge in illegal immigration across the U.S.–Mexico border once the emergency Title 42 policy is terminated in May.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas laid out the plan in a 20-page memorandum, outlining a series of “pillars” that officials are already putting into place.
In addition to deploying more resources such as agents to the border, the Department of Homeland Security is working to process illegal immigrants more quickly and expelling those who are not allowed to stay under federal law, according to the memo.
The government is also “bolstering the capacity” of non-governmental groups (NGOs) to receive illegal immigrants after they’re released by federal agents and disrupting criminal groups and smugglers who seek to smuggle people and/or drugs into the United States.
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