Republicans Warn of ‘Biggest Migration Crisis in U.S. History’ as Joe Biden Nixes Title 42
After the Biden administration announced it will end the Title 42 policy that helps border officials regulate the inflow of unprecedented levels of illegal immigration — a move expected to bring an even larger wave of migrants to the U.S. southern border — Republicans accused the president of “destroying” the country with a “full scale invasion,” warning of an impending “migration crisis” the likes of which has never been seen before, with some calling for impeachment.
Title 42, a public health provision that serves as an essential tool in combating the spread of COVID-19 and controlling the influx of migrants at our southern border, was invoked by the Trump administration at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, allowing for the expedited removal of those illegally crossing U.S. borders.
GOP lawmakers warned of grave consequences in response to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recent announcement that President Joe Biden will end the Title 42 coronavirus protection protocol that allows federal immigration officials to quickly return border crossers and illegal aliens to their native countries..
“Our southern border is already overwhelmed with illegal migrants and dangerous drugs,” wrote Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA). “Yet, the Biden Administration is proposing an end to Title 42, which will only make this unprecedented crisis even worse.”
“There is no longer any other conclusion: The chaos is intentional,” he added.
“Joe Biden’s reckless border policies have allowed 2+ million foreigners to enter our country illegally via the southern border,” wrote Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “Revoking Title 42 will supercharge the skyrocketing flow of illegal aliens, increasing drug, human and sex trafficking.”
“This is a dereliction of duty!” he added.
“Border Patrol agents feel overwhelmed and abandoned,” wrote House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
“They made one thing clear: President Biden and Vice President Harris have neglected their most basic responsibilities of protecting our country’s sovereignty,” he added.
“What’s happening at the border is actually pretty simple: Well-financed, operationally sophisticated drug cartels—with the help of the CCP—are exploiting our immigration policies & migrants’ desperation to make billions of dollars from drug & human trafficking,” wrote Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN).
“It has to end,” he added.
“By ending Title 42, border patrol agents know they’re being disarmed. Now they have nothing to combat the surge,” Hagerty wrote in another tweet. “They’re already overwhelmed, & now they’re going to get completely crushed.”
“The crisis at the border will become a disaster of epic proportions,” he added.
“The hypocrisy coming out of the Biden Administration just doesn’t end,” wrote Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
“We’ve had unprecedented numbers of illegal immigrants pouring across the southern border,” she wrote in another tweet. “Biden has done nothing.”
“The chaos at the southern border was entirely preventable,” wrote Sen. Ted. Cruz (R-Texas). “The Biden administration terminating Title 42 policy will make the catastrophe worse.”
“Ending Title 42 will worsen the already catastrophic invasion at our Southern Border,” wrote Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY).
“Joe Biden and his Far Left policies are destroying our country,” she added.
“Based on what I am being told by officials in South & Central America expect Biden’s decision to end Title 42 to lead to the biggest migration crisis in U.S. history,” warned Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R).
“It’s not just what Title 42 technically does, it’s what migrants think getting rid of it means,” he added.
“If Title 42 ends, illegal immigrants will account for most of America’s population growth next year,” wrote Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN).
“A major win for Joe Biden, and a major loss for America,” he added.
“Crime is totally out of control. Drugs are pouring over our southern border and Americans are DYING because of it,” wrote Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-TX).
“Biden is DESTROYING the country!” he added.
“Title 42 has been invoked roughly 1.7 million times by the Biden Admin,” wrote Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY).
“What is Biden planning to do with the next group of 1.7 million migrants once he ends Title 42? “ she asked. “We need a plan to secure the border IMMEDIATELY!”
“President Biden’s lack of a comprehensive plan to secure the border is a complete dereliction of duty,” wrote Rep. Tenney in another tweet. “Biden should be impeached for failing to protect the American people.”
“Joe Biden has surrendered our border to criminals and traffickers and welcomed an army of invaders to cross the southern border,” wrote Carla Sands, former Trump administration ambassador to Denmark who is vying for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat.
“Every day the southern border is left unsecured is an impeachable offense,” she added.
“If this Administration ends Title 42 — America will see a mass migration crisis like we’ve never seen before,” wrote Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX).
“The catastrophe at our southern border is one of the worst migration crises America has ever seen,” Fallon wrote in another tweet. “What does this Administration think ending Title 42 will do to it?”
“It the responsibility and duty of the federal government to protect every state of the union from invasion,” wrote Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). “Our Constitution demands & requires a secure border.”
She also called on Congress to “impeach Joe Biden,” adding that by “failing to do so, are we post-constitution and our laws no longer matter?”
“Despite warnings from both Republicans and Democrats about a surge in border crossings if Title 42 is lifted, the Biden administration announced it is eliminating one of the last remaining tools in our toolbox to stem the tide of illegal immigration,” wrote Republican Todd Young, the senior senator for Indiana.
“Lifting the Title 42 order, which has been an important backstop over the last two years, ties the hands of our hard-working border patrol agents and makes their jobs even more difficult,” he added.
“Over TWO million illegal immigrants have crossed into our nation since President Biden took office,” wrote Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ). “Despite this, the Biden Administration is moving to end Title 42 on May 23.”
“Are you kidding me??” she asked.
“This is full scale invasion” wrote Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ). “This is 540,000 in one month.”
“Putin sent 150,000 troops into Ukraine and we are ready to set fire to the world,” he added. “Eliminating Title 42 will only add fuel to the fire. Madness.”
“The Biden regime wants Title 42 gone to increase the flow of illegal aliens crossing our southern border,” wrote Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
“Example 57,563 of Biden’s Destroy America First approach,” she added.
“We cannot overstate the devastation that will come from the end to Title 42,” wrote Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL). “It’s exactly what immigrants from other countries have been waiting to hear.”
“It’s a tacit endorsement of Biden’s open border policies,” she added. “It’s only going to get worse. This is the #BidenBorderCrisis.”
“Biden’s Title 42 decision in one word: catastrophe,” wrote Colorado Republican Representative Ken Buck.
“@GOPLeader is completely right,” wrote Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.
“By ending Title 42, President Biden is actively working to make the crisis at our southern border worse,” he added.
The remarks come as America faces record-high levels of illegal immigration, with more than 209,000 migrants apprehended after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. in March, the highest number of migrant apprehensions for one month since March 2000 — the last year of the Clinton administration.
It also breaks the Biden-era record of 200,658 set in July 2021.
Last year, President Biden set new records for illegal immigration by enticing more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens to take the often deadly journey through Mexico to the nation’s southern border in the hopes of being released into the U.S.
Earlier this year, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was reported to have admitted in private that illegal immigration in President Biden’s first year in office is “worse now than … ever” in American history.
Last week, Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) accused President Biden of significantly damaging national security by deliberately creating a border crisis to expand the Democrat voter bloc, calling for an investigation into the president over his actions.
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Mayorkas’ Leaked Title 42 Plan: Ensure Migrants Get ‘Any’ Way to Stay
Border chief Alejandro Mayorkas is directing that economic migrants get every opportunity to stay once the Title 42 barrier is removed — regardless of the huge damage he inflicts on ordinary Americans.
Mayorkjas’ intentions are described in his February strategy, which was leaked to Breitbart Texas on April 4. The February strategy is titled “DHS Southwest Border Mass Irregular Migration Contingency Plan,” and it says on page 16:
A. Secretary’s Intent.
1 ) Purpose: The purpose of this plan is to describe a proactive approach that humanely prevents and responds to surges in irregular migration across the U.S. [southern border]. This will be done while ensuring that migrants can apply for any form of relief or protection [emphasis added] for which they may be eligible, including asylum, withholding of removal, and protection from removal under the regulations implementing United States obligations under the Convention Against Torture.
To maximize benefits for migrants, Mayorkas minimizes the detention and deportation of migrants — even though federal law generally denies the entry of foreign workers and economic migrants into Americans’ homeland. His plan sketches ways for border officials to squeeze many migrants through small doorways in the nation’s border:
Current pathways to removal [deportations] will be limited. Component use of broadscale release mechanisms (i.e., Own Recognizance (OR) with issuance of a Notice to Appear (NTA), or parole and Altematives to Detention (ATD) with administrative tools are necessary to ensure humane and efficient treatment of migrants.
For example, the parole side-door “is a very limited authority that Congress has given for exceptional situations,” such as a sick airline passenger, Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge told Breitbart News in May 2021. It “is very narrowly written [for small numbers of people], but the administration has blown right past the limitations,” he said.
In February, up to 165,000 migrants arrived at the border, and Mayorkas admitted 74,000 under various legal claims. Very few of the arrivals were detained, and few prior arrivals were deported, despite the federal law.
On April 26, the Supreme Court will consider a judgment by federal judges that seeks to make Mayorkas comply with federal law.
The Cuban-born Mayorkas is a pro-migration zealot who argued in 2013 that Americans’ homeland “always has been, and forever will remain a nation of immigrants.” Only about one-third of Americans accept the “nation of immigrants” narrative, according to a survey by a pro-migration group.
So his plan ignores the reasonable and rational economic concerns of roughly at least 100 million citizens of the United States.
That is not just a personal omission. As the sworn chief of the Department of Homeland Defense, Mayorkas is professionally and legally responsible for protecting Americans’ economic opportunities from illegal migrants and unscrupulous employers who hire illegal workers.
Those concerns include their ability to earn decent wages in the labor market loosened by new migrants, and their ability to rent or buy decent housing in a housing market flooded with new migrants who are glad to pool multiple paychecks for a small room.
The importance of those concerns was underlined by the Washington Post‘s March 20 description of Dave Ramsey, in Lincoln Park, Mich.:
He’d modeled himself after his father, umpiring alongside him in high school and riding with him on private investigations to train as his apprentice. But if his father’s middle class ambitions had fallen apart after 50 years, Dave Jr.’s collapsed by the time he turned 20. He dropped out of school against his father’s advice so he could make some quick money laying cable, got injured at work and then got addicted to the prescription fentanyl patches. He’d gotten clean and stayed that way for the past nine years while taking care of his father and his daughters. He’d even gone back to school at night to earn his diploma, but the life available to him didn’t include the Masons, or a union job, or a thriving American middle class. Instead he’d hustled his way through a series of contracting jobs that paid a living wage one week and nothing the next, until the family’s monthly bills were so far beyond its means that Dave Sr. started burying them in the bottom of a box.
Mayorkas’ plan does mention jobs on page 100, but only about jobs for foreigners in a planned region-wide migration network:
Focus on Whole of Western Hemisphere. The Plan is based on the idea that transnational problems require transnational solutions. The intent of this Plan is to provide the structure necessary to coordinate international public policies to prevent and respond to irregular migration while simultaneously seeking to improve economic and social conditions and provide opportunities for advancement to populations across the hemisphere to reduce the compulsion to migrate by:
l) Developing human talent.
2) Creating more and better jobs.
Housing does get a few mentions — but only in the content of housing the migrants in the United States.
For example, on page 28, the strategy directs officials to “Coordinate occupational safety and health reviews of facilities housing ICE detainees and residents to mitigate the spread of infectious diseases.” On page 95, the report says the plan “requires that minors in INS custody must be housed in facilities that meet certain standards, including state standards for housing and care of dependent children.”
“Rents” are not mentioned in the Mayorkas plan, even though migrants are already driving rent increases for Americans living in coastal and southern cities.
In December 2021, the Washington Post reported on an eviction agent in Phoenix, Ariz.:
Lennie had done more than 300 evictions since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s federal moratorium expired in early August, and during that time he’d given up on predicting who might come to the door. In the past several months, he’d evicted a 93-year-old from a retirement facility, a group of drug addicts living in an apartment cluttered with bowls of counterfeit cash, a man claiming to be a “sovereign citizen” above the law who barricaded himself inside the apartment, a laid-off restaurant worker, a schizophrenic, a hoarder, a recent Somali refugee, a man with a pet reindeer, a woman who tried hiding inside her dresser cabinet, and six families living in a two-bedroom apartment subdivided by drapes and shower curtains.
But no matter who he found waiting inside, Lennie’s job remained the same: to search the home, force everyone out and change the locks — all within a government-recommended time of about 10 minutes.
Mayorkas’ plan offers migrants the “opportunity to seek asylum, withholding of removal or deferral of removal before an Immigration Judge.”
But he says nothing about economic opportunities for the almost 20 million American men who have been pushed out of the labor market by the federal government’s cheap labor policies.
Mayorkas’ plan does not mention that federal law requires the detention of migrants until their asylum claims are heard. Instead, “detention” is used to describe a problem that must be avoided– and it only gets a first mention on page 11 of the plan. For example, the plan notes that detentions may happen if the migrants arrive faster than officials can release them into the job market:
Discussion. If the EOIR is unable to increase the number of removal proceedings for migrants during a land migration surge, it will contribute to overcrowding at CBP Office of Field Operations and Border Patrol temporary holding facilities and ICE holding and detention facilities.
“Custody” is first mentioned on page 14, and “detain” gets a first mention on page 18.
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has used a wide variety of excuses and explanations — for example, “Nation of Immigrants” — to justify its policy of extracting tens of millions of migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. investors and CEOs.
The self-serving economic strategy of extraction migration has no stopping point. It is harmful to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities, shrinks their salaries and wages, raises their housing costs, and has shoved at least ten million American men out of the labor force.
Extraction migration also distorts the economy, curbs Americans’ productivity, reduces voters’ political clout, undermines employees’ workplace rights, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and the Republicans’ Heartland states.
An economy built on extraction migration also radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture because it allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
The economic strategy also kills many migrants, splits foreign families, and extracts wealth from the poor home countries.
The extraction migration policy is backed by progressives who wish to transform the United States from a society governed by European-origin civic culture into a progressive-led empire of competing identity groups. “We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), told the New York Times on March 21. “It will be an extraordinary achievement … we will ultimately triumph,” he insisted.
Not surprisingly, the wealth-shifting extraction migration policy is very unpopular, according to a wide variety of polls. The polls show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
The opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to one another.
VIDEO: ‘We Are About to Experience an Immigration Surge Like Never Before,” Says Texas Border Mayor
2:32 The mayor of one of the main Texas border cities is sounding the alarm about an imminent migrant surge tied to the sunsetting of Title 42 restrictions by the Biden Administration.
In a video statement, McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos asks residents to call federal officials and ask them to fix the immigration problem and stop putting a “political party” over the “American people.”
“Immigration is a federal issue, a federal issue that has been dropped on our lap,” Villalobos said in a video statement. “And, even though it is not our responsibility, we will continue doing whatever is necessary to keep our residents safe.”
The mayor asked residents to call the Biden Administration and their representatives in Washington to demand immigration system fixes, ahead of what he warns will be unprecedented levels of irregular migration.
“Ask them to protect the sovereignty of our nation, our people, and our property,” he said. “Ask them to act not on behalf of a political party, but on behalf of our American people.”
The video statement by Villalobos comes at a time when the Biden Administration has announced an end to Title 42 removals, which allowed federal authorities to remove migrants for health reasons during the Coronavirus pandemic. According to federal officials, the end of Title 42 measures is expected to dramatically impact current immigration enforcement and draw more migrants and asylum seekers to the border.
“Here in the city of McAllen, we take no position as to whether the immigrants are authorized or not to enter our country,” Villalobos said. “We also take no position as to whether they are eligible for asylum. Our position is that we must stand for public safety. McAllen stands ready to act and protect.”
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The mayor of one of the main Texas border cities is sounding the alarm about an imminent migrant surge tied to the sunsetting of Title 42 restrictions by the Biden Administration.
In a video statement, McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos asks residents to call federal officials and ask them to fix the immigration problem and stop putting a “political party” over the “American people.”
“Immigration is a federal issue, a federal issue that has been dropped on our lap,” Villalobos said in a video statement. “And, even though it is not our responsibility, we will continue doing whatever is necessary to keep our residents safe.”
The mayor asked residents to call the Biden Administration and their representatives in Washington to demand immigration system fixes, ahead of what he warns will be unprecedented levels of irregular migration.
“Ask them to protect the sovereignty of our nation, our people, and our property,” he said. “Ask them to act not on behalf of a political party, but on behalf of our American people.”
The video statement by Villalobos comes at a time when the Biden Administration has announced an end to Title 42 removals, which allowed federal authorities to remove migrants for health reasons during the Coronavirus pandemic. According to federal officials, the end of Title 42 measures is expected to dramatically impact current immigration enforcement and draw more migrants and asylum seekers to the border.
“Here in the city of McAllen, we take no position as to whether the immigrants are authorized or not to enter our country,” Villalobos said. “We also take no position as to whether they are eligible for asylum. Our position is that we must stand for public safety. McAllen stands ready to act and protect.”
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
DHS: No Evidence Released Migrants Will Show Up for Removal Proceedings After Title 42
In a leaked report from the Department of Homeland Security, officials noted that only a low percentage of migrants released under the Biden Administration’s Alternative to Detention program show up for removal proceedings. The report notes “there is no evidence that a higher percentage of noncitizens will report for removal proceedings in the future if released, regardless of how expeditiously they are processed.”
The startling revelation comes in a leaked 115-page DHS Southwest Border Mass Irregular Migration Contingency Plan first reported by Breitbart Texas’ Randy Clark. The plan reveals the expected increase in illegal immigration that is expected to follow the end of the CDC’s Title 42 coronavirus protection protocol that allows Border Patrol agents to quickly expel migrants to Mexico or their country of origin after they illegally cross the border from Mexico.
In March 2021, Clark first reported that the Biden administration began the Alternative to Detention program where migrants were released at the border without a Notice to Appear.
“This is insane, it is another pull factor that will overwhelm us,” a CBP official with knowledge of the plan told Breitbart Texas. “We are creating another entirely different class of aliens we will have to deal with years from now. We will never find most of these aliens once they are released.”
In the DHS contingency plan under a section titled, Critical Assumptions, officials noted “ICE ATD [Alternative to Detention] will be implemented on a greater scale.” The footnote for this paragraph adds:
Increased processing speeds, throughput, and the use of ATD is the quickest solution for processing FMUA [Family Unit Aliens] where T42 is no longer viable. However, relatively low percentages of FMUA reported for removal proceedings in the past once released on ATD. There is no evidence that a higher percentage of noncitizens will report for removal proceedings in the future if released, regardless of how expeditiously they are processed.
Further in the Critical Assumptions section, officials stated:
Current pathways to removal will be limited. Component use of broadscale release mechanisms (i.e., Own Recognizance (OR) with issuance of a Notice to Appear (NTA), or parole and Altematives to Detention (ATD) with administrative tools are necessary to ensure humane and efficient treatment of migrants.
The footnote for this section clarifies that officials believe the traditional screening processes will become overwhelmed and DHS will focus on “increasing broadscale release techniques.”
Unofficial reports from Border Patrol revealed that more than one million migrants were apprehended so far this fiscal year. Official numbers reported by CBP show that between October 1, 2021, and February 28, 2022, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 137,000 FMUAs under Title 8 authority — an increase of approximately 36 percent over the prior year. An additional 53,000 FMUAs were processed under the sunsetting Title 42 authority and returned to Mexico or their country of origin. Most of these have been released into the public and, as noted above, most will not show up for ICE removal proceedings as required under the terms of their release.
An additional 53,000 FMUAs were processed under the sunsetting Title 42 authority and returned to Mexico or their country of origin. Once Title 42 is terminated, migrants in this category would add to the number being released.
During FY21, agents arrested just over 324,000 FMUAs under Title 8.
McAllen, Texas, Mayor Javier Villalobos — a border community mayor — said the end of Title 42 will lead to an unprecedented level of irregular migration, Breitbart Texas reported.
When the administration announced the pending end of Title 42 last week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott responded, calling the Biden administration’s open borders policies an “unmitigated disaster.”
“Ending Title 42 expulsions will signal to cartels and migrants alike that our southern border is now wide open — inciting even more violence, more trafficking, and more lawlessness,” Governor Abbott said in a written statement. “President Biden clearly has no intention to secure the border by faithfully executing Congress’ command to detain and deport illegal immigrants.”
“Instead of listening to the millions of Americans that his administration has endangered — and instead of enforcing immigration laws passed by Congress — President Biden has chosen to jeopardize the safety and security of those very Americans he swore to protect and defend by ending Title 42 expulsions,” the governor added.
Southwest Border Mass Irreg… by BreitbartTexas
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Biden Mass Migration Plan: $4B to Prop Central American Economies After $1.5B Given Since 2014
The Department of Homeland Security disseminated a recently drafted mass migration plan which includes a focus on a “Whole of Western Hemisphere” approach as a solution to the worsening border crisis. Part of the plan includes efforts to improve living conditions outside the United States as the country contends with the hottest inflation since 1982.
The agency’s outreach plan includes a focus on working with countries throughout the hemisphere on issues such as job creation, credit access, improved law enforcement cooperation, and stimulating industry. The document shifts blame for the immigration crisis away from pull factors within the United States.
The draft goals include:
Promote appropriate policies on migration, promote savings and investment opportunities to create jobs, and develop sustainable means of livelihood for the poorest and most vulnerable sectors.
Recognize remittances as an important source of capital in many countries of the hemisphere.
Strengthen social inclusion of migrants.
Increasing access to credit and micro-credit
Improving security, among other factors, so that the impulse to migrate is reduced.
Stimulating industrial and technology sectors.
Ensure appropriate legal protections, defense of human rights, and safe and healthy labor conditions for migrants.
Reduce their vulnerable conditions at work.
The document, provided by a senior level Department of Homeland Security source, lists several factors abroad which are reportedly contributing to the increase in irregular migration to the United States. Among them, COVID-19, extreme weather, earthquakes, and severe economic decline. All, according to the document, have been worsened by climate change.
The document offers little hope of increased enforcement along the southwest border. The CDC Title 42 emergency authority that allows for swift expulsion of some migrants from the United States is predicted to cause an additional surge of migrants in short order. As reported by Breitbart Texas, the program will soon end. On Friday, the CDC announced the end of the program effective May 23 and will no longer be used as a removal mechanism for migrants who enter the United States illegally.
The new mass migration plan fails to address domestic pull factors. Several programs for migrant removal pathways developed under the Trump administration were cancelled in the early days of the Biden White House. These programs included international agreements with Central American countries known as Asylum Cooperative Agreements (ASA). These agreements provided a safe third country for asylum applicants to await the adjudication of petitions.
The Migrant Protection Protocols, another Trump era policy, also known as the Remain in Mexico program, was discontinued as well. Under the program, tens of thousands of migrants were forced to wait in Mexico as the asylum process unfolded. Although reinstated by a federal court order, the Biden Administration is not subjecting most migrants to the program and are instead allowing many to remain in the United States to wait.
The recently distributed DHS Southern Border Mass Irregular Migration Contingency Plan is likely to prove a costly solution to the expected increase in migrants encountered at the southern border.
U.S. Combating ‘Root Cause’ Aid Amounts Per Year
2021-24 (Total Projection) — $4 million
2016 — $750 million
2015 — $560 million
2014 — $260 million
President Biden has pledged to invest $4 billion throughout his presidency to address root causes of migration in Central America. As of October 2021, the Biden Administration has provided more than $331 million in humanitarian assistance for Central America and Mexico. As Vice President, Biden oversaw previous attempts to use U.S. tax dollars to address root causes in 2014. That year, Biden met with Central American leaders in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador pledging more than $260 million to address a wave of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico Border and other security issues in the area. In 2016, $750 million were sent to the region in another attempt to address root causes of migration. This amount represented a 34 percent increase over the $560 million allocated to the region in 2015.
The infusion of additional funding to Northern Triangle Central American governments is likely to find its way into the coffers of those least intended to receive them. Governments in the region have a history of corruption. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, corruption in the Northern Triangle results in the loss of $13 billion per year, or more than 5% of GDP.
Southwest Border Mass Irreg… by BreitbartTexas
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EXCLUSIVE: Leaked DHS Document Reveals Biden’s Mass-Migration Plan Offers ‘Broadscale Release Mechanisms’
The Department of Homeland Security is disseminating a mass migration plan devoid of removal mechanisms to replace the soon-to-end CDC Title 42 emergency order. The plan predicts that DHS traditional processing capabilities will be overwhelmed and require an increase in the use of “broadscale release mechanisms.”
The plan, reviewed by Breitbart Texas, acknowledges the end of Title 42 will likely result in a surge in illegal migration along the southwest border. The increase is already manifesting itself as apprehensions rise. In March, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 200,000 migrants.
The draft plan, recently circulated to senior DHS staff, is dated February 17, 2022. A source within the agency, not authorized to speak to the media, says the plan offers no concrete options other than to exhaust more resources to absorb what will likely be a historic wave of migrants at the southern border.
The source says the agency is already exceeding temporary detention capacity at most facilities and the plan will likely mean more holding space will be needed. Cost estimates to operate one temporary facility exceed $5 million per month, according to the source.
The DHS Southwest Border Mass Irregular Migration Contingency Plan tells senior leadership to prepare “federal to federal” support agreements to quickly move personnel and funds to DHS agencies.
The plan offers assumptions once Title 42 is ended and includes the acknowledgement that few legal pathways to removal are left in the wake of early executive actions under the Biden Administration.
The document offers ominous predictions about the impacts of the pending surge to the U.S.-Mexico Border. The DHS document claims most released migrants do not appear for subsequent removal proceedings. It continues:
- Current pathways to removal will be limited. Component use of broadscale release mechanisms (i.e., Own Recognizance (OR) with issuance of a Notice to Appear (NTA), or parole and Alternatives to Detention (ATD)) with administrative tools are necessary to ensure humane and efficient treatment of migrants)
- Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) will continue to leverage the FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) to provide life sustaining food, shelter, and supporting services. In addition, NGOs shall provide travel assistance from CBP custody. (Footnote: The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 made available $110 million to FEMA EFSP for this purpose.)
- ICE Alternatives to Detention (ATD) will be implemented on a greater scale. (Footnote: Increased processing speeds, throughput, and the use of ATD is the quickest solution for processing FMUAs where Title 42 is no longer viable. However, relatively low percentages of FMUAs reported for removal proceedings in the past once released on ATD. There is no evidence that a higher percentage of noncitizens will report for removal proceedings in the future if released, regardless of how expeditiously they are processed.)
The plan includes an additional focus on a “Whole of Western Hemisphere” approach as a solution to the worsening border crisis. Part of the plan, reviewed by Breitbart Texas, includes efforts to improve living conditions outside the United States.
The plan does not specify a cost associated with the pending surge in migration.
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.
Editor’s note: Breitbart Texas is currently digitizing the 115-page document for full publication.
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