Axios: DHS Releasing 87 Percent of Migrant Families into U.S.
Border agents are releasing almost nine out of 10 migrants in families who arrive at the border, according to a report Tuesday in Axios.com.
Axios reported:
The data shows an average of just 13% of nearly 13,000 family members attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border were returned to Mexico between March 14 and March 21 using the public health order, which essentially says the U.S. can close the border to nonessential travel because of the coronavirus.
The 87 percent is up from a 60 percent admit rate in February.
The leak to Axios comes just two days after President Joe Biden’s beleaguered homeland security chief repeatedly told journalists on the Sunday news shows “the border is closed.”
Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told ABC News on March 21:
The message is quite clear, do not come. The border is closed. The border is secure. We are expelling families. We are expelling single adults under the CDC’s authority under Title 42 of the United States Code because we are in the midst of a pandemic, and that is a public health imperative.
Mayorkas told NPR on March 22:
Our message has been straightforward and simple, and it’s true – the border is closed. The message is quite clear – do not come. We are expelling families. We are expelling single adults.
Mayorkas told Fox News Sunday on March 21:
Chris, we do expel families … The border is secure. The border is closed. We’ve been unequivocal in that and we are operationalizing our processes, executing our plans. We are a nation of laws, and we treat vulnerable children humanely. We can do it and we are doing it.
Mayorkas told NBC on March 21
Chuck, our message has been straightforward and simple. And it’s true. The border is closed. We are expelling families. We are expelling single adults. And we’ve made a decision that we will not expel young, vulnerable children. I think we are executing on our plans. And quite frankly, when we are finished doing so, the American public will look back on this and say we secured our border and we upheld our values and our principles as a nation.
Axios’ leak may indicate growing opposition in the White House to Mayorkas’ radical agenda of widening asylum and parole side doors into the United States. Mayorkas’ easy migration agenda is widely shared by progressives, who repeatedly described the United States as a “Nation of Immigrants” instead of a nation of Americans.
Since President Donald Trump left office, Biden’s officials are voluntarily restarting the federal policy of extraction migration that has pushed and pulled roughly 3.5 million migrants into the United States economy since 2010, despite federal laws setting immigration levels at roughly 1 million per year.
The migrants arrive via the de facto obstacle course migration system for blue-collar migrants — a chaotic Hunger Games trail of loans, coyotes, cartels, rape, deserts, weather, border laws, barriers, rescuers, transport, judges, and cheap-labor employers.
DHS officials defend the policy of allowing migrants families into the United States by saying Mexico does not have the capacity to accept many deported migrants. But Mayorkas and his allies have reduced pressure on Mexico to accept the family migrants — many of whom are following their spouse and fathers who earlier sneaked across the largely unmanned border.
The Mayorkas welcome for migrant families is accompanied by an open-door policy for older teens people who claim the status of “Unaccompanied Alien Children.”
The number of so-called UACs in U.S. custody exceeds 15,000. The spike comes as Mayorkas allows job-seeking teenagers to be treated as children and has allowed illegal migrants living in the United States to pick up their foreign children once they have been relayed by coyotes and federal agents to government-run shelters around the United States.
A record influx of almost 17,300 UACs will arrive during March, according to a report by the Washington Post.
Mayorkas’s acceptance of massive migration is also pulling border agents away from the task of intercepting illegal migrants who try to sneak across the border. Breitbart News reported March 13:
A U.S. Border Patrol source reports the number of migrant “got-away’s” tallied by the agency surpassed 118,000 for this fiscal year. In less than six months, the “got-away” number is nearly double that for all of Fiscal Year 2020. Last year, 69,000 illegal immigrants managed to avoid apprehension by the Border Patrol. Sources report the sharpest increase began in January as President Joe Biden took office.
“The border is wide open,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Fox News on March 21.
President Biden’s mission to undo the Trump administration’s immigration policies has left us with a crisis at our southern border.
It’s time to reverse course, close our border, and put the American people first. pic.twitter.com/LRhXA8XWuV
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) March 21, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Migrant Got-Away Total Tops 130K in 2021
A senior leader within Customs and Border Protection provided Breitbart Texas with developments in the number of migrants escaping apprehension. The source, speaking on a condition of anonymity, expressed frustration at the misplacement of Border Patrol resources in the southwest. According to the source, nearly 900 migrants per day eluded apprehension nationwide over the last two weeks.
in March, got-away totals for fiscal year 2021 surpassed 118,000 thousand for Fiscal Year 2021. A source now reports the total exceeds 130,000.
The metric is usually not released by DHS. It is achieved by counting illegal immigrants who ultimately escape Border Patrol apprehension after being observed by aircraft platforms and camera systems. In addition, Border Patrol agents use traditional sign-cutting techniques to identify footprints where cameras do not capture the crossing. “That’s where it gets tricky,” says one agent who did not wish to be identified. “On a small trail, dozens can walk all over each other’s footprints, so you just do your best. Often, they’ll glue carpet to the soles of their shoes.”
Sources say the got-away count usually fails to truly reflect reality and comes up short. This comes as CBP reports its highest apprehension totals since 2006.
The humanitarian needs of thousands of unaccompanied children has impacted the Border Patrol’s ability to operate in many remote areas. This situation is likely to worsen as the crisis develops.
As Border Patrol agents are redirected to humanitarian aid to unaccompanied minors and staff newly opened facilities, the border itself is undermanned, according to the source. Homeland Security is focused strictly on the optics of the border and not the underlying vulnerabilities, the source complains.
Despite the current administration’s refusal to call the immigration situation on the border a crisis, the recent surges are objectively concerning. Many believe the impetus for the surges are fueled by the promise of amnesty legislation. The administration’s new policies regarding lax interior enforcement and a reduction in removals are also believed to be contributing factors.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
Former DHS Chief: Biden Border Policy About Letting Aliens In, Not Enforcing Immigration Law
Former chief of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf said Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s border policy is the reason for the migrant chaos at the border with Mexico even after he was briefed by the Trump administration on the dangers of an open borders message.
Wolf also said Biden is focused on how many illegal aliens can be brought into the country as opposed to enforcing federal immigration law:
“The administration is treating this as though it’s a capacity issue and not an illegal behavior issue, and that’s a fundamental difference,” Wolf said in the interview with National Public Radio (NPR). “It’s – if we throw enough resources or people or money at it, we can address a capacity issue. Well, if you do it that way, you’re only encouraging more and more to come.”
“CBP would, in a sense, warn them, hey, if you remove this, this is the consequence for that, and we will see a significant uptick,” Wolf said.
Wolf also pushed back against Biden and his administration claiming the problem they face is because Trump left a “broken” immigration system.
The NPR reporter set the table by discrediting Wolf because he was acting DHS secretary and was never confirmed by the Senate, and that his appointment even faced a legal challenge.
Then the reporter was asked about what Wolf was saying now about Biden’s immigration policies:
“Well, I mean, there is no question that the Trump administration had a different approach, but Wolf says the Biden team should have been better prepared,” [NPR’s] Franco Ordonez said. “He says he and his staff briefed the Biden team and warned them that the numbers were increasing, starting back in September and October.”
“Wolf told me that he gave leaders in the transition team an unvarnished view of the challenges and how they were tackling them and warned them about undoing measures that they had put in place following the last crisis in 2019,” Ordonez said.
“And we were telling them, this is what you will do,” Wolf said in the NPR report.
“If you take down this, there’s no capacity in Border Patrol stations,” Wolf said. “There’s no capacity at HHS stations, you know, HHS facilities. You will begin to have a backup, and then there’s the consequences to that.”
Wolf was referring to Trump policies that made the border more secure and dried up the flow of migrants trying to come into the United States, including the Remain in Mexico agreement between Mexico and the U.S. that kept asylum seekers south of the border while their cases were litigated.
Trump also deported unaccompanied alien children (UAC) and forged asylum agreements with countries in Central America.
Wolf also told NPR that Trump’s immigration policies not only worked but included a record number of approved asylum cases:
“Not surprisingly, [Wolf] took offense to the administration’s claims that Trump handed over a broken system,” Ordonez said. “He said the Trump administration in the first few years granted more asylum requests than previous administrations. And as for the border, Wolf emphasized the numbers likely would have increased anyway because they were already rising. But he argued the Biden administration’s approach inflated the challenge.”
NPR, which reported negatively about former President Donald Trump on a daily basis and even in this post-Trump report, had Biden’s back.
“I mean, the Biden officials describe this as a moral imperative,” Ordonez said. “These policies that Wolf is advocating for and Biden ended were quite controversial, as you noted, and included reports of abuse and misuse.”
“But the Biden administration has also been under growing pressure to address the number of migrants arriving at the border,” Ordonez said.
“The challenge is they are trying to make a more – is sending a message that they have a more humane approach but, also, tell the rest of the region not to come,” Ordonez said. “And some feel that those message conflict, though the White House disagrees.”
Ordonez repeated the White House’s narrative that they have been clear about the border being closed and have even paid for ads in Central American countries warning people not to come.
When asked what Biden is doing to end the border crisis Ordonez continued with the White House narrative, which strongly mirrors Barack Obama immigration policies.
“Well, a key thing they’re doing is trying to move children out of jail-like border facilities,” Ordonez said. “Unaccompanied children are arriving faster than they can find them beds in more appropriate shelters. They are trying to find them more space.”
Ordonez also said Biden, like Obama, wants to “tackle the root causes” of why people are fleeing their homeland to come to the U.S.
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