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The White House has unveiled its plan to address the root causes of migration, a long-term strategy that involves working with the private sector and foreign governments to bolster Central American countries, but it is expected to do little to stem the immediate surge of migrants arriving at the southern border.
The plan builds on principles that have been laid out before but have done little to curb migration, with any effects likely to take place in the long term.
Border crossings reached a 21-year-high in June with more than 188,000 migrants apprehended — 50,000 of whom came from countries outside the Northern Triangle or Mexico, where much of the focus has been.
“The emphasis on root causes is absolutely essential and important. But it’s not going to help the administration manage what’s happening on the border today,” said Theresa Cardinal Brown, the managing director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.
In one 24-hour period this week, Border Patrol stopped more than 800 people in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, among them, the single largest group of people apprehended this year.