Biden Admin Releasing Haitian Migrants into USA Despite Promise to Remove Them
Media outlets report that despite promises from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Haitian migrants are being released into the U.S. interior. One official told the Associated Press the number of migrants released in recent days is in the thousands.
“If you come to the United States illegally, you will be returned, your journey will not succeed, and you will be endangering your life and your family’s life,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas said during a press conference in Del Rio on Monday. “Your journey will not succeed, and you will be endangering your life and your family’s lives.”
“We in DHS are securing additional transportation to accelerate the pace and increase the capacity of removal flights to Haiti and other destinations in the Western Hemisphere,” he stated.
Despite these bold promises of removal, it appears the number of Haitians being removed is in the hundreds while those being released are in the thousands.
The AP reports:
The releases come amid a quick effort to empty the camp under a bridge that, according to some estimates, held more than 14,000 people over the weekend in a town of 35,000 people. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, during a visit Tuesday to Del Rio, said the county’s top official told him the most recent tally at the camp was about 8,600 migrants.
The criteria for deciding who is flown to Haiti and who is released in the U.S. was unclear, but two U.S. officials said single adults were the priority for expulsion flights.
Fox News also reports the release of Haitian migrants into the U.S. interior. The migrants are reportedly being flown by Aero Airways, a major government contractor, to U.S. destinations including Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, New York City, Yakima (Washington), and Harrisburg (Pennsylvania).
The AP claims as many as 6,000 migrants have been released from the camp in Del Rio, Texas.
Breitbart News reached out to CBP and DHS for confirmation of these flights and the numbers of migrants being removed and released. An immediate response was not available by the time of this publication.
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Buzzfeed: White House, Mayorkas Fight over Migration Policy
White House officials are alarmed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ mismanagement of the border, according to a report Thursday in Buzzfeed News.
The article relies on comments from unnamed sources. But author Hamed Aleaziz has a good record of getting scoops from many senior and mid-level pro-migration advocates in government. The article is titled:
Biden’s Approach To Immigration Is Causing A Huge Internal Rift And Leading To A Lot Of Confusion
The article lists many pro-migration measures adopted by Mayorkas, but the quoted sources lament the White House’s continued use of the Title 42 rule to block almost half of the migrants who walk up to agents at the border.
McAllen, TX (April 08, 2021) Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas engages with CBP and other DHS employees to discuss operations and resources at the border. (DHS photo by Zachary Hupp)
The sources also blame Biden’s political aides in the White House for not opening the border up to more migration:
“There is a complete lack of direction,” said one administration official. “Everything is deferred to the White House National Security Council, which can’t see past low polls on immigration and are terrified their own shadow may be a pull factor. Career and political staff are equally concerned.”
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“They are almost exclusively focused on detention, deterrence, and generally treating asylum-seekers with as much violence and inhumanity as the prior administration,” this official said. “Honestly, I don’t know how much longer I can stay at DHS if this continues. I stayed because I believed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris when they promised to build it back better. The despair I am feeling about what they are doing now is indescribable. I can’t go on like this.”
However, Mayorkas’ aides are determined to further open the border, according to the article.
For example, one “senior DHS official” argued to Buzzfeed that the U.S. superpower cannot stop an army of foreign high-school dropouts from penetrating the nation’s border and taking jobs and income away from Americans:
One senior DHS official [said that migrant] “Flows are going to continue. It would be better for the administration to focus on how to process them in a faster and more humane manner instead of focusing on how to convince desperate people not to make the journey.”
In reality, Mayorkas’ DHS works hand-in-glove with the cartels and with U.S. non-profits that are funded by elite donors to help economic migrants cross the border and get into Americans’ jobs and housing.
The semi-concealed official support for migrants is best understood as an establishment-run economic policy of extraction migration. The policy is intended to aid coastal investors and their progressive dependents by pulling cheap foreign workers, taxpayer-aided consumers, room-sharing renters into the U.S. economy, via many legal, illegal, and conditionally legal routes.
The Buzzfeed report is interesting because major political outlets, such as the New York Times and the Washington Post have provided very modest insight into the clashing politics of Mayorkas’ DHS and Biden’s political staff.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz address reporters at the migrant camp in Del Rio, Texas. (Photo: Randy Clark,/Breitbart Texas)
The insight is difficult to get. Mayorkas is an immigration zealot who has repeatedly misled the many journalists and GOP politicians who do not understand the migration issue, and he rarely accepts public questioning by skeptical and knowledgeable reporters.
Moreover, many journalists, top editors, and producers do not want to follow the money through migration politics, in part, because they prefer to see migration as a social issue, akin to civil rights.
But Biden is clearly concerned about Mayorkas’ handling of the border — and Biden’s poll ratings are clearly in decline because of Mayorkas’ support for mass migration.
“We will get it under control,” Biden told a reporter on September 21.
Public opinion has shifted 17 points against President Joe Biden’s loose migration policies, according to polls by Morning Consult for Politico. The August 28-30 poll of 1,997 registered voters shows Biden with 55 percent opposition and just 36 percent support.
In April, Biden had 45 percent opposition and 43 percent support on immigration.
Curiously, the article does not mention Mayorkas, nor influential outside groups, such as Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us. Nor does it mention any of the White House officials who are concerned about Mayorkas’ management of the borders.
Aleaziz explained his reporting:
BuzzFeed News spoke with 20 government officials — some Biden appointees, others career staffers at DHS and the Department of Justice who focus on immigration — to understand how the policies that arose in January are being implemented and understood internally. They spoke with BuzzFeed News on the condition of anonymity due to the fact that they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The report mention’s two pro-migration groups, including the Haitian Bridge Alliance, which has been funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Many polls show that labor migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their rents. Migration also curbs their productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, and wrecks their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture.
For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
This pocketbook opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
Mayorkas: ‘If It’s 10% or 15%, I Don’t Have the Precise Numbers’ of Haitians Allowed to Stay in U.S., ‘Believe It Is a Very Small Percentage’
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said, “if it’s 10% or 15%, I don’t have the precise numbers” of how many Haitian migrants have been allowed to stay in the U.S. and put into immigration enforcement proceedings, but it’s “a minority” and “We believe it is a very small percentage” of those who massed in Del Rio, TX.
Host Wolf Blitzer asked, “I understand the Department of Homeland Security says 1,400 Haitians have been deported. How many have actually been released here into the United States?”
Maayorkas responded, “Wolf, we have indeed removed approximately 1,400 people from the Del Rio Sector. We accumulate our statistics on a monthly basis, and of course, we’ll publish those as well. The individuals whom we release and place into immigration enforcement proceedings are those, for example, with acute medical conditions, specific vulnerabilities, or if our operational capacity so dictates. It’s very important, Wolf, to underscore the fact that this is not a matter of immigration policy, but rather this is a matter of public health policy. We are applying the law pursuant to an order that the Centers for Disease Control issued in light of the fact that this country and the world is in the midst of a pandemic. We are exercising that authority as we are required to do, to protect the health and well-being of the migrants themselves, our personnel, local communities, and the American public.”
Blitzer then asked, “So, I take it 1,400 have been sent back to Haiti. There’s a local organization helping migrants that say[s] more than 1,000 have been released here into the United States. Is that right? Have 1,000 Haitians been allowed to stay in the United States, at least for now?”
Mayorkas answered, “Well, what we are doing is we are continuing to remove individuals. We have moved people from Del Rio to other processing centers along the border, to ensure the safety and security of the individuals and to facilitate the removal process. Those individuals who we’re not able to remove by reason of their acute medical conditions, we place in immigration enforcement proceedings or address our operational capacities as need be. But we are very focused on applying the public health laws that we are obligated to enforce.”
Blitzer then asked, “So, can you give us a number, how many have been allowed to stay here in the United States, for whatever reason?”
Mayorkas responded, “We believe it is a very small percentage of the total that assembled in Del Rio, Texas, and that will be removed.”
Blitzer then followed up, “What does that mean? About 15,000 have shown up. I take it 1,400 have been sent back to Haiti. What about the rest?”
Mayorkas answered, “Wolf, if it’s 10% or 15%, I don’t have the precise numbers. I assure you it’s a minority of the individuals for the reasons that I have articulated, and they are placed in immigration enforcement proceedings, where they are able — where they appear before a judge, and if, in fact, they make a valid claim to remain in the United States, then, of course, we honor that. And if not, they are removed as well.”
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