President Biden recently exploded in anger at aides over the border crisis, demanding unclear immigration data and lashing out when they couldn’t release it immediately — underscoring how tense the issue is in the administration, a new report says.
Those present at the volatile meeting aboard Air Force One in late January later said Biden’s frustration over the issue had made it increasingly difficult to make decisions about the border, Axios said Monday.
“There’s a definite incentive … to not be the person who has a scary issue without a solution,” the source said.
“If you’re the one briefing the president, you can piss him off every day,” the source said.
Adding to the disaster is the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris has missed an “opportunity” to show her leadership during the crisis, sources said.
“He was ineffective at best, and at worst was sporadically involved and didn’t see that was his responsibility,” a former senior Biden administration official told the media. “It was an opportunity for him, and he didn’t fill that void.”
President Biden blasted his staff when they failed to produce unclear immigration data during a January 2023 meeting aboard Air Force One, according to reports. Annabelle Gordon – Pool via CNP / SplashNews.com
The White House told Axios that the previously unreported meeting — which included deputy chief of staff Gen. O’Malley Dillon and Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall — was “productive” and claimed that “multiple meeting participants directly refuted this description.” and results” of conversations about “specifically this complex issue.”
Some Biden officials felt the State Department dragged its feet for years before establishing a regional processing center to allow more immigrants to apply for protection in the US before the border, the outlet said. A department representative denied this claim.
Differing ideologies among Democratic leaders also appear to be delaying decision-making, according to the report.
Former White House staffers say many Biden aides have shied away from taking ownership of the immigration crisis. AP Several current and former Biden staffers also claim that many in the administration believe Vice President Kamala Harris has failed to help with the crisis. ZUMAPRESS.com
Sherwood-Randall — who reportedly requested a memo early in her tenure explaining the difference between refugees and asylum seekers — has advocated stricter enforcement of immigration policies than others, which has pushed for reform and the expansion of legal pathways for immigrants to stay in the United States.
Internal uncertainty and constant turnover in the White House immigration team have led to conflicting steps being taken by the Biden team as they try to deal with the thousands of asylum seekers flooding the border, according to sources.
The administration’s uncertainty over the hot-button issue was evident when the Biden administration halted former President Donald Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” program but continued Title 42, which allows for expedited deportations of immigrants. “Remaining in Mexico” involves an arrangement where asylum seekers stay in Mexico while their court case plays out in the US.
The uncertainty within the White House and the constant turnover of involved staff have allegedly led to the contradictory steps taken by the Biden team as they try to defuse the crisis. Getty Images
Biden later also extended temporary protections for Venezuelans in the US – weeks before announcing plans to deport Venezuelan immigrants for the first time in years.
When temporary camps were set up along the US side of the Rio Grande in September 2021 — the start of what would be thousands of migrants sheltering at the border — staff knew it was “a moment where people were going to get hurt,” a former administration official told the outlet. .
That day, which two former administration officials described as the worst day of their jobs, resulted in former ICE official Jason Houser making several profanity-laced calls to White House and DHS officials, sources said.
It also led to the parole programs of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, which allow undocumented people “outside the United States” to request parole in the US based on “compelling humanitarian reasons or important public interest.”
The program, passed last year, has sent a growing number of undocumented immigrants to Florida.
A White House spokesman said Biden was proud of his team’s efforts to resolve the “unprecedented challenges” that come with the border crisis. AP
White House spokesman Andrew Bates told Axios that Biden was proud of his team’s work to solve the “unprecedented challenges” that come with the border crisis.
“President Biden is proud that his team has worked so well together as they work to solve unprecedented challenges, and as congressional Republicans continue to choose politics over protecting our borders,” Bates said.
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