Washington – Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley Distanced himself from former President Donald Trump’s policies Segregation of immigrant children from their parents, but said it happened because lawmakers have been in a deadlock for too long. Immigration reform.
“It should never get to that point,” Trump’s former ambassador told “Face the Nation” Sunday when asked if he would revive the controversial policy as a deterrent to illegal border crossings. “No, we shouldn’t be separating families, but we shouldn’t be taking families over which we have no control.”
before Title 42 — a pandemic-era emergency rule that allowed the Trump and Biden administrations to deport immigrants without a court hearing — expired last week, with Customs and Border Protection fears at an all-time high. But the expected spike in illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border after the policy ended did not materialize immediately, According to official data Obtained by CBS News. Still, holding facilities in the Rio Grande Valley are over capacity.
“This should have been dealt with a long time ago and it wasn’t,” Haley said, blaming both Republicans and Democrats for the crisis at the border. He has indicated that he will stop allowing any immigrants into the country until immigration reform is passed.
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“I think we need to stop the bleeding at the border and we need to reform immigration before we even think about taking anyone else into this country,” he said.
He said legal immigration should be based on factors such as merit, talent and business needs.
“Let’s not do it because people run over the fence,” Haley said. “Let’s not do this because we have the advantage of the crowd and we can’t hold on anymore. This is the wrong way to go about it. We have to make sure this is a national security issue.”
“We shouldn’t wait until 9/11 to realize that Republicans and Democrats need to get in the room and figure out immigration reform and start working for the American people instead of the other way around,” he added.
The Biden administration is seeking to reduce historically high levels of immigration through a series of deterrence measures, including barring migrants from re-entering the United States for five years unless they seek asylum in a third country en route to the United States.
Camilo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.
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