US-Mexico border crisis: Migrants believe they are safe in Biden’s America

The United States is facing one of the biggest surge of migrants at its southwestern border for the third time in seven years. Poverty, violence and corruption in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have led to this influx of migration. ( Photo Source: AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Border control officers are struggling with increasing numbers of children who are trying to cross into the country by themselves, creating a major humanitarian crisis for the Joe Biden administration. (Photo Source: AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Migrant children and teenagers are processed after entering the site of a temporary holding facility south of Midland, Texas. The procedure also faces hurdles due to the COVID-19 restrictions in place (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)

The head of Homeland Security acknowledged the severity of the problem but said it's under control. The department had sought the help of the US disaster agency last week to help the migrant children. (Photo Source: li Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)

Ana Icela Cuellar, a migrant from El Salvador, displays her cell phone with images of her daughter Genesis, 8, left, and her son Andy Nathanael, 4, as they wait to be processed by Team Brownsville, a humanitarian group, helping migrants released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Brownsville, Texas, (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Many people seeking to migrate to the US believe they have better chances under Biden, who has ended the Trump administration’s practice of sending back immigrant children who cross the border alone. Republicans are accusing Joe Biden of causing the border surge for the same. (Photo Source: Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)