President Donald Trump extended the national border emergency until February 2022 as a number of Central American migrants appear to be heading to the U.S.–Mexico border area via caravans.
Trump said in an announcement on Jan. 16, “The ongoing border security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border of the United States continues to threaten our national security, including by exacerbating the effect of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 ... but further action is needed to address the humanitarian crisis and to control unlawful migration and the flow of narcotics and criminals across the southern border of the United States.”
