Do National Guard members report to their governor, or the president? Both, actually. State National Guard members have two commanders: their governors and, above that, the U.S. president.
So who’s paying for this?
Is that even allowed? A state lawmaker says it’s legal , but security experts have called the moved unethical and dangerous. “You certainly don’t want our national security priorities up to the highest bidder,” Mandy Smithberger of the Project on Government Oversight told the Washington Post .
OK. But why is this all happening in the first place? Positioning truckloads of cops and National Guard on the border certainly helps create the appearance of crisis.
So, is there a crisis, or not?
Why are more people crossing the border? they’re not . unique individuals crossing the border is believed to be
Why are there so several repeat crossers right now? The simple answer is Title 42. That’s an obscure public-health measure that the Trump administration used to shut the border to asylum-seekers when the Covid pandemic started. Biden has kept Title 42 mostly in place. Before that, people seeking asylum in the U.S. were generally permitted to remain in the country (often in detention) as they awaited the outcome of their asylum case in court. But under Title 42,
So the border isn’t “open”?
What’s all the ruckus from Republicans about then? made in the late ’90s and early 2000s .
Why are more people coming to cross the border? Is that because of Biden? actu ally began months before Biden became president , and there are, of course, several factors: Multiple hurricanes ravaged Central America in November; the Covid pandemic has intensified poverty and gangs’ efforts at extortion; cartel violence in Mexico is at record-high levels; and political crisis in Haiti has erupted in street violence, to name a few of the “root causes.”
How will this all end? expected to phase out Title 42 over the coming weeks and months, which will allow for several waiting at the border to enter the country lawfully. Concerningthe additional state officers sent to the border, the decision for when they will go home will be made by the Republican governors who sent them.