Introduction

President Biden deploying 1,500 armed troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as this country braces for an influx of migrants. Nearly 40,000 asylum seekers are waiting just across the border in Mexico, waiting to enter the United States once a rule known as Title 42 expires next week. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez writing in his statement, the Biden administration's militarization of the border is unacceptable. The city of El Paso under a state of emergency as hundreds of migrants camp outside shelters on the streets and alleys and parking lots ahead of the lifting of the pandemic era rule.