With Biden AWOL on the border surge, courts and Congress get busy
Joe Biden has been AWOL for years on the border, but with a migrant surge on with his dropping of Title 42, he's positively out of touch.
"The border will be chaotic for a while" is pretty well the sum of his stance on the crisis. Best he can do.
But in that void of leadership, we are seeing action in the courts and with our wretchedly feeble Congress.
From Florida, a federal judge has called a halt to Joe Biden's open-borders system of "parole" for any illegally crossing migrant who claims asylum, which is nearly all of them.
According to CBS News:
El Paso, Texas — A federal judge in Florida on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from continuing a migrant release policy designed to alleviate overcrowding at immigration holding facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The ruling came just hours before the Title 42 border restrictions expired at 11:59 p.m. EDT Thursday, raising concerns about severe overcrowding in already over-capacity Border Patrol migrant facilities.
An injunction hearing will be held on May 19. It makes sense. The law, after all, says that illegal border-crossers must be detained. Joe's "parole" or "alternative to detention" is obviously a joke.
Meanwhile, the House, at least, has gotten busy, with restoring "asylum" to its original meaning.
You can tell it's a meaningful bill based on the screaming from the left. Here is the Al Jazeera headline: "US Republicans pass 'extreme' immigration bill as Title 42 ends."
They insist there is no chance for the reforms on asylum abuse to pass, owing to the Senate. But they may be deluding themselves. Other outlets are reporting that Democrats in the Senate are receptive to reforms. Stay tuned for more on this.
Image: Screen shot from KTLA5 video via YouTube.
Joe Biden has been AWOL for years on the border, but with a migrant surge on with his dropping of Title 42, he's positively out of touch.
"The border will be chaotic for a while" is pretty well the sum of his stance on the crisis. Best he can do.
But in that void of leadership, we are seeing action in the courts and with our wretchedly feeble Congress.
From Florida, a federal judge has called a halt to Joe Biden's open-borders system of "parole" for any illegally crossing migrant who claims asylum, which is nearly all of them.
According to CBS News:
El Paso, Texas — A federal judge in Florida on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from continuing a migrant release policy designed to alleviate overcrowding at immigration holding facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The ruling came just hours before the Title 42 border restrictions expired at 11:59 p.m. EDT Thursday, raising concerns about severe overcrowding in already over-capacity Border Patrol migrant facilities.
An injunction hearing will be held on May 19. It makes sense. The law, after all, says that illegal border-crossers must be detained. Joe's "parole" or "alternative to detention" is obviously a joke.
Meanwhile, the House, at least, has gotten busy, with restoring "asylum" to its original meaning.
You can tell it's a meaningful bill based on the screaming from the left. Here is the Al Jazeera headline: "US Republicans pass 'extreme' immigration bill as Title 42 ends."
They insist there is no chance for the reforms on asylum abuse to pass, owing to the Senate. But they may be deluding themselves. Other outlets are reporting that Democrats in the Senate are receptive to reforms. Stay tuned for more on this.
Image: Screen shot from KTLA5 video via YouTube.
‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris Kicks Off Lifting of Title 42 with Democrat ‘Soiree’
Vice President Kamala Harris kicks off her administration’s lifting of Title 42 by headlining the Democrat Party of Georgia’s “Spring Soiree” fundraiser on Friday.
Harris, named border czar by President Joe Biden in 2021, is scheduled to attend the “Spring Soiree” on Friday in Atlanta and the private fundraiser hosted by the Democrat National Committee (DNC). The events mark the beginning of their Biden-Harris campaign push to raise as much money as possible for the 2024 election cycle.
She will be attending the fundraisers instead of visiting the U.S.-Mexico border in her capacity as border czar, where 400,000 border crossers and illegal aliens are expected to come to the southern border every month, as the Biden administration puts an end to Title 42.
Title 42 was a federal public health authority that aimed to control the border, which expired at 11:59 p.m. Thursday. The House Republicans passed legislation, H.R.2, on Thursday to codify some of former President Trump’s strictest border policies. But, the legislation still has to get through the Senate, and the White House has promised President Joe Biden will veto it.
Breitbart News’s John Binder noted in an explainer article about what happens when the Trump-era rules end that there will likely be roughly 400,000 border crossers and illegal aliens coming to the southern border every month, which exceeds the populations of some cities.
The New York Post reported that the vice president’s office was reluctant to share any specific plans she has to address the border crisis in the coming days. But, a White House official defended Harris’s engagement in plans.
[Harris] has been engaged and regularly briefed on preparations for the end of public health emergency measures — including Title 42 — while continuing to make progress addressing the root causes of migration from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Since Biden announced Harris would be the “Border Czar” in March 2021, Republicans have increasingly criticized her for her lack of effort and being hesitant to visit the border.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
Biden’s DHS Gives Phones to Border Crossers While Releasing Them into U.S.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is issuing cell phones to border crossers and illegal aliens as they are being released into the United States. The phones are used strictly to track their whereabouts following their release.
Biden ended Title 42, one of the administration’s last few border controls to stem waves of illegal immigration, on Friday and began implementing a series of programs under its Catch and Release network that ensure most border crossers and illegal aliens are released into the United States while awaiting their immigration hearings, which are often years out.
As part of that process, DHS provides some border crossers and illegal aliens with phones to track their whereabouts. Those given phones are enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program, which allows new arrivals to remain in the United States without being detained while waiting for their cases to come up.
As Breitbart News reported, from October 2021 to September 2022 Biden’s DHS gave phones to more than a quarter of a million border crossers and illegal aliens as they were released into the United States interior. The phones cannot search the internet or make calls.
The cost to American taxpayers is more than $360,000 every day.
Before Title 42 ended this week, the Biden administration had already been mass releasing border crossers and illegal aliens into the United States, coupled with a ballooning of the number of “got-aways” — those who successfully crossed the border without being detected.
According to figures detailed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) last month, anywhere from four to five million border crossers and illegal aliens have been welcomed to the United States by the Biden administration since late January 2021.
This is a foreign population that exceeds the populations of 28 states.
WATCH — Ron Johnson: Up to 5M Illegal Aliens Welcomed to United States Under Biden
C-SPANJohn Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Migrants with Dubious Asylum Claims Enjoy Massive Court Backlogs as DHS Schedules Hearings 4 to 10 Years Out
Migrants released into the United States with dubious asylum claims will enjoy a massive backlog in the nation’s immigration court system as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) schedules hearings as far out as a decade from now.
This week, President Joe Biden ended the Title 42 public health authority that was used for more than three years at the U.S.-Mexico border to remove close to three million illegal aliens and send them back to their native countries.
As a result, Biden’s DHS has implemented an expansive Catch and Release network that includes releasing border crossers into the U.S. interior with Notices to Appear (NTAs) in federal immigration court.
In some cases, as independent journalist Tayler Hansen reported, migrants are being given NTAs to appear before an immigration judge in 2026 and 2027:
In addition to issuing border crossers NTAs, the Biden administration had also issued Notices to Report (NTRs) for months — paperwork that effectively asks migrants to report, eventually, to a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office and then to receive a court date.
DHS documents, reviewed by Breitbart News, show that as of February, migrants with NTRs have been given scheduled immigration hearings as far out as a decade from today. In New York, for instance, many border crossers will not have to go before an immigration judge until October 2032.
In other cities, like Jacksonville, Florida, and Miramar, Florida, migrants will not go before an immigration judge until 2028, and in Atlanta, Georgia, and San Antonio, Texas, migrants will not have their asylum cases heard until 2027.
The backlog is important for border crossers who file bogus asylum claims, as they can remain in the U.S. for years – in some cases, a decade – before ever having to face an immigration judge.
A fraction of border crossers released into the U.S. end up securing asylum. Take Biden’s “Dedicated Dockets” program, meant to fast-track the asylum process for migrants. Data published last year found that just one percent of border crossers in the program had valid claims for asylum to remain in the U.S.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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