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RE: Biden's* Border Bungling (13,000 unaccompanied minors)
Quote:More unaccompanied minors have been captured or have presented themselves at the United States-Mexico border in the first few weeks of March than in all of February, according to a report from CNN based on unofficial Customs and Border Protection numbers.
The number of migrant children detained at the United States border is already on pace to break an all-time record, as The Daily Wire noted last week, but the problem is only gaining steam. According to preliminary U.S. Border Patrol numbers provided to CNN, nearly 11,000 child migrants have crossed the border in March — thousands more than in February, and the month is barely half over.
“The US Border Patrol has detained more than 11,000 unaccompanied migrant children between February 28 to March 20, according to preliminary government data,” the outlet noted, “already eclipsing the number of minors apprehended in the full month of February.”
“In recent weeks, the number of encounters of children crossing the US-Mexico border alone has continued to climb, overwhelming the government’s resources that had already been under strain because of the coronavirus pandemic,” CNN reported Tuesday. “In all of February, Border Patrol apprehended nearly 9,300 unaccompanied children at the US southern border, up from around 5,600 in January.”
The United States is also reportedly on pace to smash detention records. The previous high was in May 2019, when “11,400 unaccompanied children were arrested on the US-Mexico border.” According to recent reports from CBS News and others, the U.S. is holding approximately 15,500 unaccompanied child migrants in border detention facilities run by CBP as well as facilities run by Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“The U.S. government on Saturday was housing approximately 15,500 unaccompanied migrant minors, including 5,000 teenagers and children stranded in Border Patrol facilities not designed for long-term custody,” per CBS. “More than 5,000 unaccompanied minors were being held in a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) tent holding facility in south Texas and other stations along the border with Mexico. According to the government records, unaccompanied children are spending an average of 136 hours in CBP custody, well beyond the 72-hour limit outlined in U.S. law.”
According to reports of a briefing given to President Joe Biden earlier this month, the Biden administration expects upwards of 20,000 child migrants in United States custody, meaning it is possible the crisis has yet to reach its peak.
CNN is quick to note that unaccompanied minors make up a small minority of border encounters and that adult apprehensions are up significantly as well. “Between February 28 and March 20, Border Patrol apprehended more than 60,000 single adults and more than 32,000 families,” according to unofficial Border Patrol data.
The Biden administration is struggling to find places to house the thousands of child migrants as they try to unite them with family members already in the United States. Border facilities are overwhelmed and, according to photos released on Monday, conditions are rapidly deteriorating for child residents, who appear packed shoulder to shoulder in small rooms.
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Quote:Border Patrol agents continue to apprehend increasing volumes of large migrant groups illegally crossing the border in the Rio Grande Valley Sector. Despite White House assurances that the southwester border is “closed,” apprehensions in March have already exceeded the entire month of February.
Over the weekend, Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended three more “large groups” of migrants, CBP officials said in a written statement. In three incidents, the agents apprehended nearly 400 migrants — mostly family units and unaccompanied minors.
“Groups of over 100 apprehensions becoming the new normal as RGV agents encounter three this weekend totaling more than 369 illegal aliens,” Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings tweeted. “This is the 25th 100+ sized group this year.”
Groups of over 100 apprehensions becoming the new normal as RGV agents encounter three this weekend totaling more than 369 illegal aliens. This is the 25th 100+ sized group this year.
Click the link for the full story: https://t.co/vANAaIuyXV pic.twitter.com/FmDHozfEiM
— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) March 23, 2021
By late last week, Hastings tweeted that his agents had already apprehended more than 34,000. With 11 days to go in the month at that time, the number of apprehensions in March exceeded February’s apprehensions for the entire month by more than 25 percent.
RGV agents remained busy on Thursday, apprehending over 2000 illegal aliens. Thursday’s encounters pushed RGV’s weekly total over 10K apprehensions! March monthly totals are now over 34K for #RGV Sector alone.#crossingyourborders pic.twitter.com/nga2wgBI6A
— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) March 19, 2021
McAllen Station agents working the border near Havana, Texas, on Saturday encountered a group of 145 migrants, officials stated. Just a few hours later, agents working near La Joya, apprehended a second large group of 108. Border Patrol defines a “large group” as a single crossing of more than 100 migrants.
On Sunday morning, agents patrolling the border near Hidalgo, Texas, encountered the third large group consisting of 116.
In total, the agents apprehended 369 migrants. Officials report nearly 300 of the group were family units and unaccompanied minors. The remainder were said to be single adults.
“Even with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, human smugglers continue to try these brazen attempts with zero regard for the lives they endanger nor to the health of the citizens of our great nation,” Rio Grande Valley Sector officials said in a written statement.
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Quote:Del Rio, Texas, Mayor Bruno Lozano (D) pleaded with President Joe Biden to address the overwhelming flow of migrants into his border city. He characterized the surge as an unprecedented breach of national security.
“It’s a slap in the face,” Mayor Lozano told the New York Post on Sunday. “You have a breach on national security levels that have never before been seen in modern history and you’re not even batting an eye about it, you’re not even calling it a ‘crisis,‘ you’re calling it a quote-unquote challenge.”
In February, Lozano asked President Biden to not send migrants to his city of 35,000 because they did not have the resources to deal with them, Breitbart News reported.
“I am pleading and requesting with you to please put a halt to any measures regarding the release of immigrants awaiting court dates into the city of Del Rio and surrounding areas,” the mayor said. “We do not have the resources available to house and accommodate these migrants within our community.”
Lozano told the New York Post his pleadings “fell on deaf ears.”
“I’m not trying to demonize the humanitarian aspect by any means but my responsibility is to the city of Del Rio and the residents of Del Rio, Texas, my responsibilities are to the American people that got me elected,” the Texas border mayor stated. “Nobody wants to actually tackle the issue, you’re condoning unlawful behavior, period. There’s a lawful way to enter the United States, there’s a lawful way to seek asylum and it just undermines the entire immigration process.”
The mayor told the reporter that about 150 migrants per day are dropped off at a local humanitarian organization. From there, the migrants are processed and transported to the bus station or airport. But some, he explained, are not ready to leave and need a place to stay.
“That’s when the logistical nightmare begins, where are they going to sleep for the night? That’s the number I worry about each day,” Lozano stated. He said the city has been using a basketball court as a makeshift shelter.
The exacerbated mayor concluded, “You have this policy where unlawful entry is being condoned, criminal activity is being condoned, these migrants are using the cartels to traverse Mexico and that’s a fact and organized criminal activity is rising because of that.”
“I’m calling them out, I’m so frustrated as a border town mayor about all of this,” Lozano said.
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Quote:MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough ripped President Joe Biden and his administration’s messaging to immigrants that has resulted in a crisis at the United States’ border with Mexico.
According to Scarborough, as long as the Biden administration is “luring” children to the United States with a “permissive immigration policy,” there will be a “crisis at the border.”
“Those children made the journey in the first place because the United States of America now is sending a message to those children — if you journey across the desert, you make a long and dangerous trip, we’re going to let you in. And we’re going to let you in if you’re unaccompanied,” Scarborough said Tuesday. “And sometimes, and we’re going to find this out throughout the show, you can come in, and we’re not going to even give you a court date. So … the Biden administration right now is the one that’s luring these children to the border with the promise of being able to get in.”
“[A]s long as you have a permissive immigration policy, you’re going to have a crisis at the border,” he added. “And yes, we have United States Senators from Connecticut, Democrats, liberals, that are talking about tears in their eyes, when they look at the situation that these children are in. That’s a crisis at the border. And as long as you have a permissive policy — first of all, again, it’s dangerous for the children because more children are going to keep coming until you tell them, ‘No, we’re not going to let you in.”
Scarborough called on the Biden administration to change their messaging to immigrants to “we’re not going to let unaccompanied minors in the United States.”
“When they say that and when that message is clearly sent, then unaccompanied minors will stop crowding the border in the numbers that they’re crowding,” he advised.
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