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The announcement comes after Biden promised 'not another foot'
of border wall construction during his campaign

Joe Biden previously admonished Donald Trump over the wall and
his immigration policies

Biden admin filling gaps in US-Mexico border wall despite 'not
another foot' campaign pledge

Border state governors like Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey continue
to bus migrants to DC

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing illegal immigrants to the
nation's capital since May

The Trump-era agreements allowed the US to send migrants to
Northern Triangle countries to claim asylum

The Biden administration formally terminated three key Trump-era
migration agreements amid an ongoing crisis at the southern
border when numbers of migrants crossing the border were at
their highest.

The Trump-era agreements were signed with the Northern Triangle
countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in 2019 as part
of the Trump administration�s border strategy. The agreements
allowed the U.S. to send migrants to those countries to claim
asylum if they passed through them on the way to the U.S.

The State Department announced its decision to cancel the
agreements, called Asylum Cooperative Agreements, in February
last year, suspending them immediately.

"The Biden administration believes there are more suitable ways
to work with our partner governments to manage migration across
the region," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. "The United
States will build on our strong relationships and support these
governments� efforts to address forced displacement without
placing undue burden on them, especially in the context of the
COVID-19 pandemic."

Blinken noted that the agreements had either not fully gone into
effect or had been suspended in 2020 due to the COVID-19
pandemic. But Blinken made it clear they would not be restored.

The suspension only put the agreements on hold, and they were
not officially terminated until months later. The State
Department told Rep. Matt Rosendale�s, R-Mont., office that the
agreements were not actually terminated until the end of the
notice periods written into the agreements � May 4 for the
Guatemala agreement, August 4 for the agreement with El Savador
and August 5 for the agreement with Honduras.

In May, the number of migrant encounters at the border had
spiked to over 180,000, and, by August, that number was more
than 209,000 after it reached a high of 213,593 in July, with
border agents repeatedly warning that they were overwhelmed by
the crisis.

In a statement to Fox News, Rep. Rosendale said it is "shameful
that the Biden Administration would terminate these agreements
this summer, when the border crisis was at its peak, without
even telling the American people."

"The Biden Administration�s systematic dismantling of successful
Trump-era border policies has created the worst border crisis in
American history," he said. "To get operational control of the
border, as the American people deserve � and the law demands �
it is critical that our nation return to proven Trump-era
immigration policies, and reimplement these highly effective
Safe Third Country Agreements."

Former acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox the fact that the
administration went through with the terminations showed the
administration�s "incompetence."

"It�s one thing to cancel those in January or February when
you�re not really sure the consequences of doing so, but to
continue the process to cancel them when you understand that the
consequences of some of the actions you�ve taken is creating the
worst border crisis we've ever experienced as a country, and to
continue to go through that shows you that they're not serious
about solving the border crisis or they're completely
incompetent," he said.

Wolf said the agreements themselves were designed to address the
enormous amount of fraud in the U.S. asylum system.

"What those agreements were designed to do was to allow
individuals in Central America to seek asylum, seek protection
as close to their home country as possible, which is an
international norm," he said. "Anywhere else in the world you
try to resettle refugees, and you try to resettle asylum seekers
as close to their home countries in safe areas as possible so
when conditions improve they can go back to their home country
and begin their life."

"It was also designed to say if you were from, say, Honduras,
and you decide to travel through Guatemala and Mexico and don�t
seek asylum there, and for some reason you went to the United
States to seek asylum, it allows the United States to say, 'No
that's not right, you need to go back and seek asylum in a place
like Guatemala where there are places in that country that are
very safe.'"

It is one of a number of Trump-era immigration policies that the
Biden administration has reversed, including border wall
construction and the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which
saw the return of migrants to Mexico rather than their release
into the U.S. The Biden administration has since been forced to
restore that policy due to a court order, although it is seeking
to end it via different means.

Wolf said that the ACAs were designed not to work on their own,
but to work as part of a broader strategy that included MPP and
other Trump-era initiative in order to allow the government a
number of pathways on which to put illegal immigrants.

"So when you close down those pathways like the Biden
administration did, they are essentially tying their hands what
they can do with these folks and some would say � and I would
argue � that's done by design because the only option they
really want to do at the end of the day is to release them into
the United States," he said.

Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, with a
focus on immigration. He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or
on Twitter: @AdamShawNY

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