'Los Angeles need not panic,' said Andrew Selee, who is with the Migration Policy Institute. 'These are the same numbers of people that were headed to Los Angeles and other communities anyway.'
With immigration already a big problem at the border, some are worried that the Biden Administration's new plan, which sends migrants further into the country while they await official immigration proceedings, could be problematic.
Undocumented people coming to LA is not new. Rarely do asylum seekers stay in border cities because the immigration process takes too long, often years. The real problem, according immigration analysts, is the system itself. A security spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said,"Should a decision be made, DHS will continue to closely coordinate with and support cities."
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