April 10, 2022
Since Joe Biden became president, illegal immigration has been at record highs. Within the first few months, his administration reversed every Trump-era immigration policy which had given the US the most secure border in decades, except for one, Title 42. Beginning on May 23, the Biden administration is repealing Title 42.
Title 42 is a public health policy invoked under Trump, which allows for the rapid expulsion of migrants due to the pandemic and public health concerns. Although Biden exempted families, unaccompanied children, and even some single men from enforcement of the policy, the rule allowed for the rapid expulsion of many single men. According to the Migrant Policy Institute, 55% of the encounters at the border led to deportations.
Repealing Title 42 will require border agents to process every person who breaches the border claiming asylum. Never mind that almost all asylum claimants coming over the southern border are looking for economic opportunity and therefore do not qualify for asylum in the US.
Even with Title 42 still in place, border patrol agents are overwhelmed, and border security is lacking. In just March, 62,000 migrants illegally crossed into the US and evaded capture – also known as “gotaways”. In the last six months, there were more than 300,000 gotaways. Where are they? Who are they? No one knows. It is undeniable that there are criminals among the hundreds of thousands who purposefully eluded border patrol and now living in the US.
Even migrants who are apprehended or turn themselves in to border patrol are difficult to vet. As there is no international criminal database, unless they committed a crime within the United States, there is no way to check the criminal history of even those with identification. Therefore, murderers, rapists, child predators, drug traffickers… almost anyone who committed crimes in a foreign country may be allowed entry if they come to the US border claiming asylum.
Since Biden has been in office, more than 3 million migrants from 150 countries have illegally crossed into the US. The fiscal year 2021 saw the highest number of illegal border crossers in US recorded history. Fiscal 2022, which began in October 2021, is on pace to exceed last year.
How many migrants posing a danger to Americans have been allowed into our country? No one knows.
Last week US Customs and Border Protection released a report entitled “Criminal Migrants and Gang members Arrested Throughout the RGV”. Among the criminals were numerous gang members, a pedophile, a convicted rapist, and an attempted murderer. They were all deported out of the country. However, there is nothing to stop them from crossing into the US again, and next time they made evade capture.
Thanks to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Maryorkas, it is no longer a crime to illegally enter the US. Migrants may illegally enter as many times as they like. There are zero repercussions.
And they have every reason to keep coming.
Ahead of the repeal of Title 42, Fox News Bill Melugin reported witnessing mass numbers of single adults released into the US. According to Melugin, busloads of hundreds of migrants are released into Brownsville, Texas every day. After their release, they are taken to a bus terminal or airport and are free to travel wherever they want, courtesy of the US taxpayers.
Migrants are also given free smartphones so they may be tracked and communicate with ICE. However, there is no way to prevent migrants who want to disappear into the US from tossing their phones. In other words, ICE has no way of locating illegal migrants who do not want to be located.
As out of control as the border has been for the last 14 months, the worst is yet to come. There is almost unanimous consent that after the Biden administration revokes the one remaining border enforcement policy, there will be an unprecedented flood of illegal migrants from south of the border. And without Title 42, quick expulsions will no longer be allowed. Border Patrol will be transformed from law enforcement into a welcoming committee.
Border officials are anticipating upwards of 18,000 a day. That would amount to 500,000 plus illegal border crossers every month. At that rate, by the end of Biden’s presidency, more than 20 million illegal migrants will have entered the United States. That is seven times greater than the second-largest city in the United States.
The open border is not only a national security threat, but it may also lead to another Covid wave.
Despite the administration’s constant alarm over Covid, they do not require migrants to receive a covid vaccine or even a covid test before being allowed to travel freely throughout the US. Further, almost all the US-bound migrants come from countries with much lower vaccination rates and a higher percentage of Covid cases than in the US.
Incredibly, at the same time that Biden is using the pandemic to justify the extension of student loan forbearance and Democrats are howling about needing more money for Covid related expenses, they are declaring that Covid is no longer an excuse to keep Title 42 in place. The hypocrisy is head-spinning.
However, even if Covid disappeared, America’s Fentanyl problem is also a public health crisis warranting keeping Title 42 alive. Fentanyl overdoses are the number one killer of Americans between 18 and 44.
Almost all of the Fentanyl in the US enters through the Southern border. More than 100,000 Americans died from a drug overdose, the majority Fentanyl related, from May 2020- to April 2021-the most ever recorded in a single year. With an explosion of migrants at the border, the opportunities for drug smugglers will increase exponentially, as agents will be preoccupied with paperwork and processing rather than border security.
Despite the dire predictions, the Biden administration has expressed no plan to handle the unprecedented number of migrants expected to show up at the border after the repeal of Title 42.
Incredibly, Secretary Maryorkas sees no national security concerns with the open border and the impending historic invasion. Speaking at the National Action Conference on Friday, Maryorkas stated that the greatest threat to the US is white supremacy and made no mention of the border crisis- but of course.
How will the US absorb millions of new impoverished, unvetted immigrants? What impact will this have on schools, hospitals, crime, taxpayers, American workers, and national security?
Unfortunately, Biden and his fellow Democrats are not concerned about how mass influxes of illegal migrants will impact Americans. Immigrants help to provide a permanent underclass, and they vote overwhelmingly for Democrats-a win-win for the Democratic Party. And that is all that matters.
Sadly, just one more example of the Biden administration failing our nation.
