Important Takeaways:

• The Biden administration on Thursday said it would expand former President Donald Trump’s wall on the Mexican border and begin deporting thousands of Venezuelans in an effort to cut down on the migrant surge that shows no signs of abating.
• During his campaign for president, Mr. Biden denounced efforts to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but on Thursday the administration said it was allowing for the construction of physical barriers along a portion of the border in South Texas, even as he maintains that such barriers are ineffective in curbing unlawful entry from Mexico.
• In announcing that the U.S. government would begin deporting Venezuelans who enter the United States unlawfully, the Biden administration was reversing a policy of not sending migrants back
• The announcement about deportations came only three weeks after the administration granted a temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who had already entered the United States unlawfully.

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