Biden Tells Migrants ‘Don’t Come Over’ While His DHS Secretary Signals Setting Up Entry Process
The U.S. Border with Mexico is in chaos as thousands of migrants try to enter the United States in response to Joe Biden’s open borders policy while the president claims he has said they should stay away.
Biden tells migrants 'don't come over' in ABC News exclusive interview – ABC News via @ABC – https://t.co/B3jAyghMn5
— Anita Kumar (@anitakumar01) March 16, 2021
“Do you have to say quite clearly, ‘Don’t come’?” ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Biden in an interview Tuesday.
“Yes, I can say quite clearly: Don’t come over,” Biden said. “Don’t leave your town or city or community.”
According to ABC, “Republicans have said Biden’s moves to rescind former President Donald Trump’s harsh immigration policies have encouraged migrants to come to the United States, but Biden told ABC News that ‘we’re sending back people’ who cross the border.”
“Was it a mistake not to anticipate this surge?” Stephanopoulos said.
“First of all, there was a surge in the last two years,” Biden said. “In ’19 and ’20, there was a surge, as well.”
“I heard the other day that they’re coming because they know I’m a nice guy,” Biden said. “Here’s the deal, they’re not.”
But as Breitbart News reported, Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is sending a different signal, saying he wants to expand economic migration into the United States on top of the roughly one million people per year set by Congress.
“For years, the asylum system has been badly in need of reengineering,” Mayorkas said in a March 16 statement. He continued:
In addition to improving the process by which unaccompanied children are placed with family or sponsors, we will be issuing a new regulation shortly and taking other measures to implement the long-needed systemic reforms. We will shorten from years to months the time it takes to adjudicate an asylum claim while ensuring procedural safeguards and enhancing access to counsel.
Since Biden was sworn into office he has worked to reverse former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including securing the border with a wall, and ended an agreement with Mexico to keep asylum seekers in that country while their asylum claims were litigated.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in February 2021, Unaccompanied Alien Children taken into custody numbered 9,297.
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Border Patrol agents in the nation’s busiest sector continue to encounter large groups of migrants illegally crossing from Mexico into South Texas. Nearly 24,000 were apprehended in the last two weeks alone — nearly 28,000 for all of February.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents continue to apprehend large groups of migrants illegally crossing the border. Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings tweeted last Friday that nearly 24,000 migrants had been taken into custody in his sector during the past two weeks. Hundreds more were apprehended in the days that followed.
This group adds to the nearly 24,000 individuals apprehended throughout the RGV in the last two weeks.
For more info on activity in the RGV, click the link: https://t.co/s1uz7Tv6l1 https://t.co/lh2Yp1ATIM
— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) March 13, 2021
On Saturday morning, agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Station encountered a group of 134 migrants after they illegally crossed the border near Las Lomas, Texas. The agents identified 128 migrants as family units — mostly from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
A few hours later, agents from this same station encountered another large group of migrants near La Grulla, Texas. In this incident, the agents apprehended 113 migrants composed of family units and unaccompanied alien children, officials stated. Included in the 113 migrants were 17 Romanian nationals. The balance came to the U.S. from Central America, officials stated.
“Even with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, human smugglers continue to try these brazen attempts with zero regard for the lives they endanger nor to the health of the citizens of our great nation,” officials said in a written statement.
The #RGV continues to see an increase in illegal crossings despite #COVID19 concerns.
Two large groups totaling 201 illegal aliens were arrested by agents in Rio Grande City and La Joya, TX.
The group consisted of 71 family members & 19 unaccompanied alien children. pic.twitter.com/MZQbDXfPhx— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) March 11, 2021
Last week, Rio Grande Valley Sector agents apprehended large groups of mostly family-unit migrants from Central America near La Grulla, La Joya, and Roma. These groups totaled 339 migrants from Central America, Romania, and Cuba, officials stated.
“Despite the inherent dangers of crossing the treacherous Rio Grande, illegal aliens continue to risk their lives to enter the United States,” Border Patrol officials stated. “In recent days, Border Patrol has conducted multiple rescues of individuals, who were set adrift by smugglers. Groups are smuggled on inflatable rafts almost always exceeding the maximum capacity of the rafts, and rarely provided life vests.”
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Face
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