Quote:Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas invited President Joe Biden to witness the migrant crisis for what would be his first trip to the southern border as president.
Thousands of migrants resorted to staying in dangerous tent cities in Mexican border towns after the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) were implemented in 2019 and the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration’s efforts to repeal the policy, Catholic Charities Executive Director Norma Pimentel said in an op-ed Monday for The Washington Post.
Pimentel asked Biden to visit the Rio Grande Valley and negotiate with Mexican officials to secure more humane conditions for the migrants. She appealed to the president’s Catholic faith to provide humanitarian assistance to the migrants.
“I invite you to come and see for yourself, as your wife did in 2019, what is happening on the border,” Pimentel writes. “There are many layers to the immigration realities behind the strident political rhetoric that dominates and obscures the issue today. But we must find ways to counter what Pope Francis calls a ‘globalization of indifference.'”
Migrant families have lived in the camps for up to two years as they wait for a decision on their immigration cases, according to Pimentel. The camps are affected by extreme heat and intermittent rain that turns the ground into thick mud and floods tents, while drug cartels plague the border towns with violence.
“We must not make children live for months in rain-logged tents,” Pimentel wrote. “We cannot abandon them to communities where their mothers are afraid to let them use the bathroom at night for fear they might encounter a gang member or be assaulted.”
Pimentel asked Biden to consider allowing the migrants into the U.S. on humanitarian parole or working with Mexican officials to allow the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to donate food, medical attention and housing for the migrants waiting at the border.
An estimated 5,000 migrants are staying at a makeshift camp in Reynosa, Mexico, near McAllen, Texas, according to Pimentel.
Quote:The number of detained illegal immigrants slightly declined as Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have hardly arrested anyone, federal data processed by the Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse shows.
Around 25,000 people are currently detained at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, though Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials apprehended most of the immigrants held in the detention centers, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) Assistant Professor Austin Kocher.
ICE officials are responsible for immigration enforcement in the interior of the U.S., while CBP officials are tasked with overseeing people and items entering the country.
“Based on ICE’s public data, the total of people in civil immigration detention centers on a single day was as low as around 12,000 during the second month of the Biden administration, then doubled between March and July to over 27,000 but hasn’t grown since,” Kocher told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
ICE officials have made the lowest number of arrests in decades and haven’t increased that number since President Joe Biden’s inauguration, according to Kocher. ICE detention numbers peaked around 27,000 in July and have since decreased to around 25,100 as of Aug. 24.
“These numbers appear to be driven entirely by arrests by Customs and Border Protection, which tend to happen near the border,” Kocher added. “Detentions resulting from arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for interior enforcement, remains remarkably low.”
CBP officials encountered a record high of more than 212,000 migrants at the southern border in July, according to the agency. Over 1.1 million migrants have been encountered at the southern border since January.
Some migrants who were expelled under a Trump-era public health order are making several attempts to illegally cross the border, which can lead to an inaccurate tally of individuals encountered at the southern border.
RE: Biden*s Migrant Crisis Just Keeps Getting Worse and Worse
There was a time back before they built the wall that most illegal immigrants would come and go as they pleased and no one seemed to mind. They would cross over, work for the day and go back at night.
RE: Biden*s Migrant Crisis Just Keeps Getting Worse and Worse
(09-13-2021 12:47 PM)Danforth Wrote: There was a time back before they built the wall that most illegal immigrants would come and go as they pleased and no one seemed to mind. They would cross over, work for the day and go back at night.
Do you have any clue how things work at the border? Based upon what?
RE: Biden*s Migrant Crisis Just Keeps Getting Worse and Worse
(09-13-2021 03:33 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:
(09-13-2021 12:47 PM)Danforth Wrote: There was a time back before they built the wall that most illegal immigrants would come and go as they pleased and no one seemed to mind. They would cross over, work for the day and go back at night.
Do you have any clue how things work at the border? Based upon what?
I grew up on the border and interacted with "illegals" my entire life. Many businesses hired them on a daily basis for various reasons. They often would sell food in the streets and work construction.
Quote:President Joe Biden’s administration recorded its second-highest number of illegals alien apprehensions along the southern border last month as Biden’s national security and humanitarian catastrophe continues.
“There were more than 200,000 migrant encounters at the southern border in August, a DHS source told Fox News on Wednesday, the second month in a row where the number has been over the 200,000 mark as migrants continue to attempt to enter the U.S.,” Fox News reported. “Additionally, the 208,887 number for August represents a 317% increase over last August 2020 which saw 50,014 encounters — and a 233% increase over August 2019, where there were 62,707 amid that year’s border crisis.”
The numbers, which are only preliminary and could still rise, would mark the first time during the Biden era that the total number of apprehensions of illegal aliens decreased from the month before, even if minimally. July saw more than 212,000 apprehensions. The decrease would be just 1.88% from the prior month.
Fox News reporter Bill Melguin tweeted out videos from Wednesday that showed thousands upon thousands of illegal aliens waiting to be apprehended by U.S. law enforcement officials.
“Our drone is currently over the international bridge in Del Rio, TX, where Border Patrol & law enforcement sources tell us over 4,200 migrants are waiting to be apprehended after crossing into US. Local BP holding facilities are overwhelmed and over capacity,” Melugin tweeted. “A source on the ground sent us this video showing thousands of migrants under the international bridge in Del Rio, TX with more showing up constantly. We’re told the situation there is getting worse every day and the numbers are growing by the hour.”
Chad Wolf, former acting DHS secretary and Heritage visiting fellow, slammed the administration in a statement, saying that Biden’s “failed border-security policies are simply unsustainable.”
“The men and women of federal law enforcement cannot continue to deal with these crisis-level numbers. They are already overwhelmed and overburdened. The breakdown is coming,” Wolf said. “Hundreds have been pulled off the line, from defending and safeguarding our borders, to process and care for the flood of illegal aliens apprehended at the border. Cartels and smugglers have taken advantage of our weakness, with record numbers of not just people, but narcotics, pouring across an increasingly undefended border.”
“President Biden simply isn’t listening, and I fear that we are staring down the prospect of a preventable disaster stemming from this crisis,” Wolf added. “Sadly, just as we saw in Afghanistan in recent weeks, it seems that for this administration, politics trumps national security.”
Mark Morgan, former acting CBP commissioner and Heritage visiting fellow, also criticized the Biden administration, saying that contrary to what they claim, “this crisis extends well beyond local border communities.”
“The consequences of Biden’s border crisis are impacting our country’s public safety, health, and national security,” Morgan said. “What comes across our southern border makes its way to every town, city, and state in our nation. We are seeing a significant increase in fentanyl pouring across our borders, expansion of human trafficking, and criminal aliens breaking into our country undetected as a result of the current open border policies. Where is the outrage from the mainstream media? Where is the action on Capitol Hill?”
“As our southern border becomes increasing vulnerable to the vast set of complex threats facing our country, the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan presents a heightened sense of insecurity and concern,” Morgan added. Afghanistan has once again become a base of operations for terrorist organizations. Make no mistake, these organizations’ resolve and commitment to do harm to the United States is alive and well, and they will look for every vulnerability we have here at home and abroad to exploit. They need only to look toward our southern border. We must change course before it’s too late.”
Quote:President Joe Biden’s administration recorded its second-highest number of illegals alien apprehensions along the southern border last month as Biden’s national security and humanitarian catastrophe continues.
“There were more than 200,000 migrant encounters at the southern border in August, a DHS source told Fox News on Wednesday, the second month in a row where the number has been over the 200,000 mark as migrants continue to attempt to enter the U.S.,” Fox News reported. “Additionally, the 208,887 number for August represents a 317% increase over last August 2020 which saw 50,014 encounters — and a 233% increase over August 2019, where there were 62,707 amid that year’s border crisis.”
The numbers, which are only preliminary and could still rise, would mark the first time during the Biden era that the total number of apprehensions of illegal aliens decreased from the month before, even if minimally. July saw more than 212,000 apprehensions. The decrease would be just 1.88% from the prior month.
Fox News reporter Bill Melguin tweeted out videos from Wednesday that showed thousands upon thousands of illegal aliens waiting to be apprehended by U.S. law enforcement officials.
“Our drone is currently over the international bridge in Del Rio, TX, where Border Patrol & law enforcement sources tell us over 4,200 migrants are waiting to be apprehended after crossing into US. Local BP holding facilities are overwhelmed and over capacity,” Melugin tweeted. “A source on the ground sent us this video showing thousands of migrants under the international bridge in Del Rio, TX with more showing up constantly. We’re told the situation there is getting worse every day and the numbers are growing by the hour.”
Chad Wolf, former acting DHS secretary and Heritage visiting fellow, slammed the administration in a statement, saying that Biden’s “failed border-security policies are simply unsustainable.”
“The men and women of federal law enforcement cannot continue to deal with these crisis-level numbers. They are already overwhelmed and overburdened. The breakdown is coming,” Wolf said. “Hundreds have been pulled off the line, from defending and safeguarding our borders, to process and care for the flood of illegal aliens apprehended at the border. Cartels and smugglers have taken advantage of our weakness, with record numbers of not just people, but narcotics, pouring across an increasingly undefended border.”
“President Biden simply isn’t listening, and I fear that we are staring down the prospect of a preventable disaster stemming from this crisis,” Wolf added. “Sadly, just as we saw in Afghanistan in recent weeks, it seems that for this administration, politics trumps national security.”
Mark Morgan, former acting CBP commissioner and Heritage visiting fellow, also criticized the Biden administration, saying that contrary to what they claim, “this crisis extends well beyond local border communities.”
“The consequences of Biden’s border crisis are impacting our country’s public safety, health, and national security,” Morgan said. “What comes across our southern border makes its way to every town, city, and state in our nation. We are seeing a significant increase in fentanyl pouring across our borders, expansion of human trafficking, and criminal aliens breaking into our country undetected as a result of the current open border policies. Where is the outrage from the mainstream media? Where is the action on Capitol Hill?”
“As our southern border becomes increasing vulnerable to the vast set of complex threats facing our country, the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan presents a heightened sense of insecurity and concern,” Morgan added. Afghanistan has once again become a base of operations for terrorist organizations. Make no mistake, these organizations’ resolve and commitment to do harm to the United States is alive and well, and they will look for every vulnerability we have here at home and abroad to exploit. They need only to look toward our southern border. We must change course before it’s too late.”
I believe it was Jeh Johnson (not looking) that said, as DHS head or some alphabet soup agency in the zerO admin, when he woke up each morning he hoped like hell the number of fence-jumpers that day wouldn't be more than 1000. Anything more than that makes for a very bad day and is verging on crisis.
1000 a day. That's rough math here, about 30k a month. Anymore than that and we have a MAJOR problem.
July and August alone, we've had more people enter illegally than the populations of Cleveland, Tampa or New Orleans. TWICE the size of Richmond where I am.
Two months. A city the size of Cleveland has arrived, no money, no job, nowhere to live right off, typically poorly educated, many speak little or no English, likely thousands with Covid or other infectious diseases. Who's gonna pay for all this?
You are. I am. We ALL are, excepting those who pay little or NO Federal Income tax. But even then we'll all be paying through over crowded schools, hospitals, roads, social welfare programs and damn near anything else one can think of. Combine that with the downward pressure on wages for low skilled entry level labor jobs and the like and it's a double whammy to those just scraping by as it is.
They are, quite literally, emptying out Central America and increasingly South America and West Africa.
Where they all gonna go? Can they all fit into Minneapolis and upstate NY? I doubt it.
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2021 03:51 PM by JMUDunk.)
Quote:Thousands of Haitian migrants overwhelmed border officials in Del Rio, Texas, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
Border officials reportedly said that over 9,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti, were waiting to be processed under the Del Rio International Bridge, according to the Times. A few hundred migrants crossed the shallow section of the Rio Grande River to the temporary site earlier this week, and officials reportedly expect thousands more to show up over the next few days.
More Border Patrol agents will be deployed to the area “to immediately address the current level of migrant encounters and to facilitate a safe, humane and orderly process,” the agency said, the Times reported. Migrants are told to wait under the bridge to get out of the hot Texas sun in an effort to stem heat-related illness before they’re taken into custody.
The migrants sleep on the dirt floor underneath the bridge in overcrowded conditions, as temperatures sometimes reach triple-digits, according to the Times. Local and state officials, including Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, have criticized the conditions.
“The Biden administration is in complete disarray and is handling the border crisis as badly as the evacuation from Afghanistan,” Abbott said, the Times reported. Abbott deployed Texas’ National Guard and other state law enforcement officials to help federal officials at the border.
The migrants don’t have access to clean water or food, and portable bathrooms are few and far between beneath the bridge, Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano said, the Times reported.
“There are 9,000 people really anxious and stressed,” Lozano said, according to the Times. Lozano asked federal officials to assist the small town of just 35,000 residents for help processing the migrants.
Haitian migrants increasingly arrived at the border around June, after a series of earthquakes and a presidential assassination shook the country, the Times reported.
Border officials encountered nearly 209,000 migrants at the southern border in August, including around 32,300 people in the Del Rio sector, according to Customs and Border Protection data.