{"id":282464,"date":"2021-03-22T13:15:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=282464"},"modified":"2021-03-22T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:15:49","slug":"sinema-joins-cornyn-calling-on-biden-to-use-full-authorities-to-address-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sinema-joins-cornyn-calling-on-biden-to-use-full-authorities-to-address-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinema Joins Cornyn Calling On Biden To Use \u2018Full Authorities\u2019 To Address Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsinema-joins-cornyn-calling-on-biden-to-use-full-authorities-to-address-border-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=282464&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2674.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona on Monday joined GOP Senator John Cornyn of Texas in calling on President Joe Biden to use his \u201cfull authorities\u201d to address the migrant crisis at the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe write to urge you to use your full authorities to effectively respond to and successfully manage the ongoing crisis at our Southwest Border. It is critical that our nation take aggressive steps to secure our border, protect our communities and ensure migrants are treated fairly and humanely,\u201d Sinema and Cornyn wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornyn.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/032221%20Sinema-Cornyn%20border%20priorities%20letter%20pdf.pdf\">letter<\/a> to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 30,000 unaccompanied minors crossed the southern border in February, close to the total number of unaccompanied minors who crossed last year. Meanwhile, more than 100,000 people were apprehended crossing the border illegally last month, an increase of 28% from January.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Biden has scrapped several of the Trump administration\u2019s border policies, including the&nbsp;\u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy, which&nbsp;required that migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. cross back over the border and wait in Mexico until their immigration court date.<\/p>\n<p>The two senators urged Biden to \u201ctake immediate action in two areas: ensuring there are sufficient resources and facilities at the border to manage the crisis and taking concrete steps to improve the asylum process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan letter recommended that Biden take steps to streamline the asylum process as well as the coordination between federal agencies and departments. Sinema and Cornyn cautioned, however, that&nbsp;any improvements to the asylum process should also protect migrants\u2019 due process rights and should make sure they have access to legal counsel and medical services while detained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot afford to be consumed by partisan battles on this critical topic,\u201d the senators concluded. \u201cWe will continue to seek bipartisan agreement with you and our colleagues to develop common-sense solutions that improve the situation on our border and keep our communities safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declared Sunday that the border is \u201cclosed\u201d despite the ongoing migrant surge, in particular of unaccompanied children, and declined to offer specifics on when the&nbsp;Biden administration will open new facilities to house migrant children at the border&nbsp;in more humane conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said Sunday that he plans to visit the&nbsp;southern border&nbsp;\u201cat some point\u201d but added that he is already familiar with \u201cwhat\u2019s going in those facilities\u201d when asked whether he wanted to view the facilities for himself.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump released a scathing statement on Sunday criticizing Biden\u2019s handling of the migrant surge, urging the new administration to \u201cimmediately complete the wall\u201d at the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe proudly handed the Biden Administration the most secure border in history,\u201d Trump said in the statement. \u201d&nbsp;All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot. &nbsp;Instead, in the span of a just few weeks, the Biden Administration has turned a national triumph into a national disaster. 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Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona on Monday joined GOP Senator John Cornyn of Texas in calling on President Joe Biden to use his \u201cfull authorities\u201d to address the migrant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310924,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2674.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Sinema Joins Cornyn Calling On Biden To Use \u2018Full Authorities\u2019 To Address Border Crisis","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2674.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Sinema Joins Cornyn Calling On Biden To Use \u2018Full Authorities\u2019 To Address Border Crisis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}