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Migrants deported from US back to Mexico say Biden didn’t keep promise
Illegal immigrants deported from the United States back to Mexico under a Trump-era policy are saying they thought President Biden would let them stay in America.
They were instead sent back across the border, per a COVID-19 policy from former President Donald Trump’s administration, amid a surge in illegal immigration in Biden’s first months as president.
“Biden promised us that everything was going to change,” Honduran resident Gladys Oneida Pérez Cruz, 48, told the New York Times after being deported from the US to Mexico. “He hasn’t done it yet, but he is going to be a good president for migrants.”
The Biden administration has exempted unaccompanied minors, but in order to battle a surge in illegal border crossings, is dropping adult detainees and families on a bridge and telling them to walk back to Mexico.