President Biden speaks with U.S. Customs and Border Protection police on the Bridge of the Americas border crossing between Mexico and the U.S. in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday.

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President Biden speaks with U.S. Customs and Border Protection police on the Bridge of the Americas border crossing between Mexico and the U.S. in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday.

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President Biden is visiting the U.S.-Mexico border for the primary time as president on Sunday, stopping in El Paso, Texas, on his approach to Mexico. The go to comes after two years of back-and-forth with Republicans over the Biden administration’s immigration coverage.

Republican state officers and the Biden administration are sparring over the way forward for Title 42, an early pandemic-era coverage that lets the U.S. shortly expel most migrants in search of asylum with out a listening to.

Last month, in a victory for Republicans, the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from winding down the policy.

The Biden administration introduced that it might broaden the coverage to incorporate folks from Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti who illegally enter the U.S. by Mexico — but would also expand legal pathways for entering the U.S. The U.S. plans to just accept as much as 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela every month.

“People come to America for a whole lot of different reasons,” Biden mentioned throughout a Jan. 5 speech announcing the new immigration policies. “To seek new opportunity in what is the strongest economy in the world. Can’t blame them wanting to do it. They flee oppression, you know, to the — to the freest nation in the world. They chase their own American Dream in the greatest nation in the world.”

Immigrant advocates argue that Title 42 makes use of the pretense of public well being to as a substitute block entry to protections for these in search of asylum.

For months, Republican governors have been sending buses filled with migrants to Washington, D.C., and different so-called sanctuary cities, as a part of their marketing campaign to name for tighter borders.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has despatched lots of the buses, hand-delivered a letter to Biden throughout his go to. The governor has been one of the vital vocal critics of the Biden administration’s immigration coverage.

“Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings,” Abbott wrote in the letter. “Texans are paying an especially high price for your failure, sometimes with their very lives, as local leaders from your own party will tell you if given the chance.”

Biden is touring to Mexico City in a while Sunday, the place he’ll attend the North American Leaders’ Summit.