Yamiche Alcindor:
That's right.
A lot of the president's first press conference was spent on this issue, a big challenge for the Biden administration, immigration. He laid a lot of the blame for what is happening at the Southern border at the feet of his predecessor, former President Trump.
He says he inherited a mess and that former President Trump dismantled largely the legal — the legal immigration system. And he said that he was now trying to rebuild it. He said that he didn't back down on the idea that he was going to follow U.S. law, something that President Trump didn't want to do, which was allowing unaccompanied minors into the United States.
He also, though, said that migrant families, all of them, most of them, and not — are being sent back right now, but all of them, he wants them to be sent back. They're being sent back right now under Title 42. That deals with public health and the idea that we're in the middle of a pandemic and can't at this time take in families.
That being said, President Biden said that he really needs time to get his hands around this. He also said that he would give journalists access to those overcrowded border facilities where we see a lot of children sleeping on floors and saying that they're terrified and not getting sunlight.
But he says he has to first be given a chance to implement his plan before we can start to see those facilities as reporters.
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