Biden’s Border Chaos—Crime Soars as Punishment Vanishes:
There is a thread running through progressive ideology that explains a lot about the state of our country and the world: the Left doesn’t like laws enforced or people punished for doing wrong.
Take the U.S. southern border, where we’re seeing record numbers of illegal aliens “encountered,” often with 5,000 a day just let go into the interior of the United States. The unmitigated chaos is so bad, it sometimes gets covered by a legacy media that usually prefers to ignore reporting on the border.
Americans can see that President Joe Biden’s strategy of pouring billions into “root causes of illegal immigration” aid to Latin America, inventing bogus “parole” programs to bring inadmissible aliens into the United States off the books, and releasing even more aliens caught at the border, has utterly failed.
Biden’s excuse for releasing and paroling millions, instead of detaining or sending them back to their home countries, is to pretend they are all asylum-seekers. To qualify for asylum, they’d have to prove they are fleeing persecution at home. Just living in a poor country and wanting a job in the U.S. isn’t enough, or else why would we still bother to have visas?
The biggest lie Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas keeps telling is this: “We will work to remove, as quickly as possible, those who do not qualify for relief under our laws.” But deportations dropped to 72,177 in fiscal 2022, a quarter of the 2019 total. Though badly overworked, immigration judges still order over 20,000 illegal immigrants deported every month (after due process). The math reveals the truth: the Biden administration won’t ever enforce the law and deport most failed asylum-seekers.
Republican presidential candidates all campaign to restore sanity to the border. If reelected, Donald Trump promises to reemphasize deportations. In reaction, leftist national media, politicians, and activists are freaking out.
But rather than being some dystopian nightmare, this would simply begin a return to historical norms and restore the rule of law. Applicants who lack any legal right to remain in the United States must be returned to their home countries. By failing to do that, the system has lost all credibility. That has sent a clear message to the world that if they show up at our border, they will get in—and stay for years.
Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan gets that. “Part of due process is executing the final decision of the court,” he said. Like every American who believes in the rule of law, Homan wonders, “If the court orders aren’t going to mean anything, what the hell are we doing? We might as well take the Border Patrol off the border and shut down the immigration courts because, obviously, there’s no enforcement of our immigration law.” --->READ MORE HERE
Biden’s Border Disaster Continues Unabated, and Even a Christmas “News Dump” Can’t Hide It:
Biden’s CBP has developed a shameful pattern of releasing its worst border statistics in weekend “news dumps”, but the agency took it to a new level last Friday, dropping the latest numbers on the Friday afternoon before Christmas. Those stats—on CBP encounters for last month—show that illegal aliens continue to flood into the country not only unabated but assisted by the administration. All the holiday tinsel and glitter can’t hide the fact that the president’s border disaster is only getting worse.
Border Patrol Apprehensions
“Encounters” is a term of art developed by DHS in March 2020 at the outset of Title 42 to describe both aliens apprehended by Border Patrol agents after entering illegally and aliens deemed inadmissible at the ports of entry by CBP officers from the agency’s Office of Field Operations (OFO).
In November, Border Patrol agents at the Southwest border apprehended more than 191,000 illegal entrants, the twelfth highest monthly total in the first 33 months of the Biden administration.
Twelfth place might not seem that bad, but that’s only because of how unmitigated “Biden’s border fiasco” has been. Between the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—when Congress first became serious about border security—and February 2021, Joe Biden’s first full month in office, monthly apprehensions at the Southwest border exceeded 100,000 just 18 times in a span of 232 months.
More recently, in the decade before Biden took office, monthly apprehension totals at the U.S.-Mexico line exceeded 100,000 only once—in May 2019, when they hit nearly 133,000. Trump responded by implementing the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), better known as “Remain in Mexico”.
MPP quickly drove monthly apprehensions down below 40,000 by October 2019, even before CDC issued its first Title 42 expulsion order in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020.
Under Biden, however, monthly apprehensions at the Southwest border have only dropped below 100,000 twice—in February 2021 (97,643) and in June 2023 (99,538). And, as I’ll explain below, those June 2023 numbers were deliberately fudged.
Apprehensions actually rose—albeit by a modest 1.2 percent—between October and last month. The rise itself is not as concerning as the fact that apprehensions—a proxy for illegal entries—usually drop between October and November, mostly due to the weather (it gets cold at the border when winter sets in).
In other words, the illegal-entry “trendline” at the border is headed in the wrong direction, just as the public—and more importantly, Congress—is becoming increasingly concerned about that border. --->READ MORE HERE
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