Migrant Apprehensions at Border Jump 16 Percent in September
The apprehension of migrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry jumped again. The nearly 55,000 migrants arrested in September marks the fifth-straight month of increased apprehensions. However, apprehensions for the year fell by 53 percent from the previous year’s total.
U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 54,771 migrants in September who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry, according to the FY202o year-end Southwest Border Migration Report released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on Wednesday. This represents an increase of nearly 16 percent from the previous month and a 238 percent increase from the year’s low point in March.
Overall, Border Patrol agents arrested 400,651 migrants during all of FY2020 which ended on September 30. While this is down from the FY2019 apprehension total of 851,508, it still places the arrest numbers in the ballpark of FY15–FY18.
CBP Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan said the decrease in numbers from FY19 is due in large part to plans and programs put in place by the Trump Administrations. These programs include the building on 360 miles of new border wall systems and programs put in place with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Before the pandemic, the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP) put in place by the Trump Administration and Mexico’s creation of a National Guard to focus on illegal immigration contributed to apprehension numbers falling from a high of 92,833 in March 2019 to 29,205 in January 2020 — a decrease of nearly 70 percent.
Morgan said the mission of Border Patrol shifted from border security as a law enforcement perspective to a public health perspective. Under Title 42 Coronavirus protection protocols put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 90 percent of migrants apprehended between ports of entry are returned to Mexico or Canada (depending on crossing point) within two hours.
Morgan also said the demographics of the migrants changed once the Catch and Release programs ended. He cited a shift from mostly family units illegally crossing the border (primarily from Norther Triangle countries) to what is now mostly single adults (primarily from Mexico).
Of the more than 400,000 migrants apprehended by Border Patrol in FY20, 317,864 were single adults, the CBP report indicates.
“Single adult males from Mexico accounted for 56 percent of migrants encountered this year, a significant change from FY19, when 64 percent of the encounters were individuals from the Northern Triangle countries,” CBP officials said in a written statement. “Overall, single adults accounted for 77 percent of the total encounters this year, compared to 38 percent last year.”
Morgan said the primary driver of these migrants is the struggling economies of Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries, due in part to the pandemic.
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Oprah Winfrey Cold Calls Texas Voters for Beto O’Rourke Org
Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey joined failed senatorial and presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s effort to cold calling voters in Texas in order to encourage them to vote in the upcoming presidential election.
“Texas. Since I can’t go knocking on people’s doors this election, I spent today talking with [Beto O’Rourke] and calling Texas voters to make sure they have a voting plan,” Winfrey wrote to her 19 million followers on Instagram. “So get ready like Christian because early voting starts TOMORROW 10/13 for the Lone Star State! Visit poweredxpeople.org to find your nearest polling place.”
Wearing a t-shirt that read “Your voice matters” in the colors of red, white, and blue, Winfrey made her first call to a man who was left starstruck by the OWN network boss. When asked how likely he was to vote in the upcoming election, his answer was “an 11.”
“You’re my first call and you’re already an 11!” Oprah replied. “I don’t know what to say about that! That’s fantastic.”
The 66-year-old Selma and A Wrinkle in Time star was lending her support in the effort on behalf of O’Rourke’s “Powered by People” organization aimed at encouraging potential Democratic Party supporters to register to vote.
Oprah Winfrey has stepped up her political activism in recent years and even considered running for the presidency herself. She has also thrown in with leftists peddling anti-American narrative. She recently used her Apple+ series to claim that America’s “caste system” was the “template” for the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
During the 2018 midterms, Winfrey campaigned for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams by going door to door and speaking to potential voters. Her efforts were ultimately unsuccessful, with Abrams losing by a tight margin to Republican candidate Brian Kemp.
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Biden’s 2020 plan includes several proposals to expand the inflow of foreign workers and consumers into the United States. He promises to let mayors import foreign workers for local jobs, let companies import more visa workers for college jobs, expand the inflow of chain-migration migrants, suspend immigration enforcement against illegals, dramatically increase the inflow of poor refugees, and also provide more healthcare and other aid to arriving migrants.
The huge inflow of migrants will lower Americans’ wages, transfer more wages to investors, shift jobs from the interior states to the coasts, reduce investment in wealth-generating technology, and exacerbate the chaotic diversity that has damaged U.S. society and politics.
Cato: Donald Trump Slashes Immigration
Legal immigration into the United States dropped by almost half from October 2019 to October 2020, says a report by the Cato Institute.
“The second half of [fiscal year] 2020 saw 92 percent fewer immigrants from abroad than the first half, which was larger than any annual decline in the history of the United States,” said the October 13 report by migration advocate David Bier. He continued:
Legal immigration almost wholly stopped in April and May 2020—after the State Department closed its consulates and President Trump issued a proclamation suspending new visa issuances to most immigrant categories. It has recovered slightly since then, but it remains 84 percent below last year (which was also a down year).
“This is the lowest rate of immigration except for three years during World War II and one year during the Great Depression,” Bier wrote.
But Bier’s calculation only covers the arrival of new workers and green card recipients from overseas, and so it excludes the award of green cards to many people who were already in the United States.
A green card converts foreigners into Legal Permanent Residents and allows them to become citizens in five years.
In most years, the two outside and visitor groups each provide roughly half of the roughly one million new legal immigrants to the United States. Breitbart News reported in January 2020:
The number of foreigners getting green cards and legal resident status in the United States dropped by just 7.3 percent from 2016 to 2018, according to data released January 6 by the Department of Homeland Security.
The small but useful decline from 1.18 million in 2016 down to 1.1 million in 2018 means that for every 14 green cards handed out in 2016, just 13 green cards were handed out in 2018. This drop reduces the flood of new workers to employers, and it nudges down housing pressure and school overcrowding.
This inflow from outside added up to 618,000 migrants in 2016, 560,000 in 2017, 462,000 in 2019, and 264,000 in 2020.
So the 2020 decline is a 53 percent drop from the 2017 inflow of 560,000 outside arrivals.
The outside decline allows a 25 percent drop in the total award of green cards to foreigners.
Trump’s border reforms have also sharply reduced the inflow of asylum-seeking economic migrants and have temporarily blocked the inflow of white-collar visa workers.
But many of the blocked 2020 migrants will get green cards in 2021.
For example, more than 100,000 family migrants were blocked in 2020 by the coronavirus travel bans. Under the law, those green cards will be provided in 2021 to visa workers who earlier took jobs needed by Americans. Similarly, roughly 50,000 foreigners scored green cards in the so-called 2020 “diversity lottery.” They were excluded in 2020 but will be allowed to pick up the cards once the coronavirus travel curbs have been lifted.
Only Congress has the authority to permanently raise or lower annual immigration levels.
For Bier and his pro-migration allies, any drop is bad for business:
This historic slowdown is important for both the short‐term and long‐term economic growth of the United States. Fewer workers mean that jobs will take longer to fill and slow the economic recovery, and in coming years, fewer workers will support more retirees. If the United States remains closed long enough, it could push worldwide patterns of immigration away toward other countries with more welcoming policies.
Yet any drop-off of imported workers and consumers is good news for millions of young Americans who need well-paid jobs, cheaper housing, and corporate investment in training and labor-saving machines. Each year, roughly four million Americans turn 18 — and yet the government accepts roughly one million legal immigrants, allows companies to employ roughly two million visa workers, and does little to deport roughly 11 million illegal immigrants.
Open-ended legal migration is praised by businesses and progressives partly because the arrival of migrants helps to transfer wealth from wage-earners to stockholders.
Migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from home-buyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.
Migration also allows investors to skimp on labor-saving technology, sideline U.S. minorities, exploit on stoop labor in the fields, short-change labor in the cities, gain more control over professionals, centralize technological innovation, and undermine labor rights.
Trump's curbs on J-1 visa workers are opening up jobs for young Americans, in part, because many employers prefer to hire foreign middle-class youths over hiring local Americans.: https://t.co/xuENgVwTPf
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) October 13, 2020
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