The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it is significantly expanding eligibility for a program that brings Central American minors to the U.S.

if they have parents or legal guardians here already – part of the effort by the administration to tackle the migrant surge at the southern border.

The program, which began in the Obama administration, seeks to unite those under 21 from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador who have parents or guardians already in the country.

It’s part of a Biden administration strategy of dealing with the massive surge in migration at the southern border that has focused not on turning back and barring child migrants from entering the U.S., but instead focusing on getting them into the U.S.

The Biden administration has emptied out the once-packed Border Patrol facilities like in Donna, Texas, leading to a significant increase in the number of migrant kids in Heath and Human Services' (HHS) custody.

The administration says it is pursuing avenues that allow safe and "orderly" migration, while also claiming the border is not open.

"I’m worried that this effort is going to be somehow passed off as an effort to address the number of migrants at the southern border when it does nothing to stem the flow or address the crisis created by this administration," he said in a statement. "There’s no evidence to suggest that arrivals at the southern border or illegal crossings were reduced when the Obama administration tried this years ago, so there’s no reason to think it will have that effect now."

On Tuesday, the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR) called the move "another terrible policy decision that does nothing to stem migration from Central America or truly address the crisis they created."