Acting ICE Director: 3,000 Single Adults Expelled Daily Under Public Health Law
(CNSNews.com) - As bad as the illegal immigration situation is right now under President Biden's "humanitarian" border policies, it would be much worse if Title 42 of the Public Health Act were not in effect.
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tae Johnson told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday that his agency is expelling at least 3,000 single adults every day under Title 42.
In March 2020, the Trump administration invoked Title 42, which suspends the entry of people "to prevent spread of communicable diseases," in this case, COVID-19.
President Biden has not lifted the Title 42, which is now being challenged in court by immigration activists.
"Title 42 is absolutely critical," Johnson said:
"Without it, we'd have, you know, we would have so many negative outcomes in our detention facilities. And, you know, I suspect that most of the intake would have been shut down based on significant numbers of quarantines, and you know, extremely high positivity rates at certain facilities.
“So the only way we've been able to survive and have so few COVID-related deaths in custody over the last 15 months, it's been because of Title 42."
Johnson said he's not aware of any plans to lift Title 42 voluntarily, but he said the courts may demand it. And if that happens, it would strain ICE funding and capacity to absorb the thousands of mostly single people who are now being deported for public health reasons:
Well, the biggest impact is just going to be the single adults that are coming across the Southern Border that are largely being expelled via Title 42. The last report I received was somewhere around 3,000 single adults per day. The impact of 3,000 people a day coming into ICE custody in the midst of a pandemic could be, you know, could significantly impact our operations.
On the family unit front, we are only expelling about 25 percent of the family units right now, so that will be a little bit of an impact, but nothing as significant as the impact -- as it would be for single adults.
The Biden administration is welcoming unaccompanied children, so Title 42 no longer applies to them.
As of May 2, 2021, there are approximately 22,264 UC in HHS care, the Health and Human Services Department said in a recent fact sheet. This does not include the children who already have been sent on to relatives or sponsors in this country.
'My community would not be happy'
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) told the committee, "I hope Title 42 doesn't go away." My understanding is you get about 3,000 single adults every day. About 90 to 95 percent of those single adults are expelled back under this 1944 (public health) law,” Cuellar said:
If you look at the Del Rio area, you get Cubans, Haitians, and Venezuelans, mainly; then you go to the Laredo area, you get mainly Mexicans that are coming in, single adults; and then you go to the (Rio Grande) Valley, that's where you get -- 15 percent are kids, 36 percent, 37 percent are family units, but in the Laredo area, if you were to release all those adults into our community, I will tell you my community would not be happy.
And I know you have to follow whatever thee administration says, but I can tell you, my community would not want to have where most of the people coming into the Laredo area are single adults and to be released in our area, my community would not be happy about that.
Joe Biden Diverts Healthcare Cash to Help Illegal Migrants
President Joe Biden has taken
$2 billion from Americans’ healthcare
programs to help deliver migrant
youths and children to their illegal-
migrant parents throughout the
United States, press reports say.
“The Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] has diverted more than $2 billion meant for other health initiatives toward covering the cost of caring for unaccompanied immigrant children,” Politico reported May 15. The article continued:
The redirected funds include $850 million that Congress originally allocated to rebuild the nation’s Strategic National Stockpile, the emergency medical reserve strained by the Covid-19 response. Another $850 million is being taken from a pot intended to help expand coronavirus testing, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
…
In addition to transferring money from the Strategic National Stockpile and Covid-19 testing, HHS also has pulled roughly $436 million from a range of existing health initiatives across the department.
The program costs are expected to reach almost $9 billion by October according to a leaked report in the New York Times.
The transfer of funding to the growing population of more than 50,000 foreign children and youths means fewer resources for lower-profile American kids, as their diverse American parents are damaged by the Chinese virus, cheap labor migration, job losses, housing costs, drugs, or homelessness.
The Politico report follows the leak of a government report to the May 10 New York Times. The leaked report showed how the HHS agency expects to spend almost $9 billion by October to implement Biden’s decision to import the youths and children of U.S.-based illegal migrants.
“Current projections show [a] preliminary budget estimate of $8.6b for FY21,” said the briefing for officials in HHS. It continued:
With existing resources, a shortfall (of 366m) occurs in May and grows quickly through July with an overall project shortfall in excess of $4 billion
…
OMB approved an additional transfer from HHS resources to the UC [UAC] programing the amount of $850 million this week. This funding is not reflecting in this morning balance — will be added once [the] execution process is complete. There may be [an] additional $846.5 million available in future weeks. This will mitigate but not fully resolve the project budget shortfall.
The HHS spending does not including spending — or diverted resources — at other agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) and Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) are the top Republicans on the panels overseeing federal spending at HHS and the DHS. Their offices did not respond to emails from Breitbart News.
Since January, roughly 50,000 youths and children have been accepted at the border by the government-run program, which replaced President Donald Trump’s policy of flying the youths and children back to their homes in Central America.
Biden declined to use the judge-approved option of flying the arriving youths and children back to their distant homes. Strong majorities of swing voters blame Biden, not Trump, for the unpopular migration crisis.
“The $2.13 billion in diverted money exceeds the government’s annual budget for the unaccompanied children program in each of the last two fiscal years,” Politico reported.
But the overall migration is an economic stimulus for Biden’s business donors because the migrants inflate rents and stimulate federal, state, and local spending.
Most of the 50,000 “children” are actually older teenage boys, many of whom will take jobs at low wages to repay their smuggling debts and support relatives in Central American countries.
But even children are an economic stimulus for Biden’s business donors because they inflate rents and because they stimulate federal, state, and local spending, for example, on K-12 education programs.
Biden’s delivery of the incoming youths and children also helps to keep their illegal migrant parents in the United States amid pressure from their distant families to return home. For example, a New York Times May 6 report noted 51 percent of the UACs released in the prior week were handed over to parents or step-parents. Another 38 percent were handed over to immediate relatives, some of whom may have been fronting for nearby illegal migrant parents who declined to come forward.
A May 13 tweet by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) cited federal data for 1029 that said 79 percent of sponsors were “without [legal] status.”
The migration also creates a new generation of illegal migrants for business groups and progressive Democrats to champion instead of poor or disadvantaged Americans, just as Democrats now cheerlead for the “DACA” illegals.
Biden’s policy is being implemented by Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban-born child refugee who runs the Department of Homeland Security. Mayorkas frequently claims the United States is a “Nation of Immigrants,” not of Americans. He frequently argues the nation’s values require Americans to accept many migrants, poor or rich, old or young, as if there is no economic or civic cost to Americans from the inflow of foreign migrants.
The federal delivery of children to their illegal migrant parents, after their handoff at the border by cartel-controlled coyotes, has been an open secret in Washington, DC, for at least six years.
The secret federal cooperation with the coyotes and the cartels stopped when President Donald Trump used his emergency authority in 2020 to send the migrants home when they arrived at the border. The cooperation has been accelerated by President Biden as his deputies seek to extract more wage-cutting workers, taxpayer-supported consumers, and high-occupancy renters from Central American into the United States.
“We’re complicit as a nation in human trafficking,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said at a March 26 press conference in Texas with 17 other GOP senators.
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