White House shakes up its immigration team
Source: The Hill
05/03/24 3:59 PM ET
The White House is shaking up its roster of immigration advisors, bringing in a top border enforcement policy leader and a development expert to round out its team.
Blas Nuñez-Neto comes to the White House from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where he served as the assistant secretary for border and immigration policy and was a key negotiator on a failed bipartisan Senate deal on immigration. Marcela Escobari has left her post at USAID, where she served as the head of the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The dual hires reflect the Biden administration’s approach to immigration at large — which stresses restricting migration at the border while opening up legal pathways and investing heavily in development throughout Latin America in the hopes of quelling migratory flows.
Nuñez-Neto, who immigrated to the U.S. from Argentina as a child, has been central in crafting policies he sees as a middle ground on immigration. His position on the enforcement side of immigration and border security has earned him scant praise from immigrant advocates — some of the policies he’s shepherded have been the focal point of tensions between advocates and the Biden administration.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4641960-white-house-shakes-up-its-immigration-team/
