‘Biden Promised Us!’: Migrants Swarming US–Mexico Border Claim President Encouraged Them to Come

A group of illegal immigrants rapidly deported from the United States under Title 42 wait on the Mexican side of the Paso del Norte International Bridge between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 10, 2021. Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

Migrants who are attempting to illegally cross the U.S.–Mexico border into the United States claim that President Joe Biden encouraged them to come.

“Biden promised us that everything was going to change,” Gladys Oneida Pérez Cruz, a woman who traveled to the border with her child, told The New York Times on March 14. “He hasn’t done it yet, but he is going to be a good president for migrants.”