As the border crisis explodes, one thing’s grown crystal-clear, despite the lying Bidenites’ efforts to obfuscate: Their only priority is to admit every illegal migrant they can.
The latest surrender: The administration is just letting everyone go in areas where holding facilities are overcrowded (how many aren’t, we wonder?), with a stern note telling them to report to some ICE office within a couple of months or maybe file an asylum claim by mail.
These “mass releases” began before the end of Title 42 removed the last real restraint.
They’re calling it “parole,” since “catch and release” doesn’t sound good on a press release.
Why not just stop the line at the border until you have room?
Only because waving everybody through is their goal.
Or witness Homeland Security boss Alejandro Mayorkas’ pique after Texas National Guardsmen erected barbed wire to block one popular illegal-crossing spot: “I’m going to leave it to our Department of Justice to speak to the lawfulness, or lack thereof, of those actions,” he huffed.
If he thought his job was to keep people from crossing illegally, a simple “Thanks!” would do.
That he instead all but called it illegal shows the reverse and reveals the perverse priorities of this administration.
This is why Mayorkas keeps insisting the border is “under control” — because for his purposes, it is.
From the outset, this shady administration’s only goal has been to admit as many people as stealthily and speedily as possible, while avoiding the “bad optics” of migrants held in detention facilities or under bridges.
Title 42 is a federal health measure enforced by the US Border Patrol. It allows the agency to kick certain migrants out of the US and return them to Mexico. This includes asylum seekers, who under international law have the legal right to make an asylum claim in America.
Currently, migrants who cross the border illegally and who are from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua or Venezuela are subject to Title 42 and could be sent to Mexico.
President Donald Trump invoked the law in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue the policy. The Trump administration made the case that keeping migrants out of the country would slow down the spread of infections and maintain the safety of federal agents encountering migrants.
When President Biden took over, he continued to enforce Title 42 with one important change from his predecessor. Biden said Border Patrol agents were only allowed to expel migrants from certain countries under his direction. That meant migrants seeking asylum from countries like Cuba and Venezuela could still seek asylum if they arrived at the border and stay in the US while their cases were decided in court — unless they had a criminal record.
Title 42 is supposed to be a health policy, not an immigration law. It will end at 11:59 p.m. May 11, when the Biden administration ends all COVID-19-related policies.
Many have called for the policy’s end, saying it’s illegal and that international law guarantees people the right to seek asylum.
Others, like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, warn that the southern border could see up to 13,000 migrants per day crossing with the intention to stay in the country when the measure ends.
It’s unclear exactly how many people have been expelled under Title 42 because there have been scores of people who have attempted to enter the country numerous times and been rejected again and again, but the US Border Patrol said it made an all-time high of more than 2.3 million arrests at the border in the last fiscal year. Forty percent of people who were expelled from the country were ejected under the rules of Title 42.
They haven’t even got the courage to stand by their progressive principles of a completely open border.
The dishonesty is at the root of President Joe Biden’s flacks bragging about how he’s achieved “the largest expansion of lawful pathways” to enter “in decades.”
That’s because they are straining the laws to make it as easy as possible.
Same for the complaints that this mess is only because Congress won’t pass “immigration reform.”
What they mean is “mass legalization” to speed up the lines.
Certainly not, say, toughening the rules for claiming asylum or enforcing a secure border.
In fact, asylum provisions were never intended to allow the mass migration now under way.
Yet the left has gradually twisted them into a license for end-running every other immigration statute.
Time and time again, the Bidenites have insisted the law leaves them no choice.
The truth is, they just don’t want to own up to the disaster they blindly pursued.