President Biden has abdicated his responsibilities' at the border
DHS Secretary Mayorkas and his deputies expect perhaps 500,000 migrants to arrive at the border each month.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy tore into Biden for his elimination of Title 42 restrictions, saying he has 'abdicated his responsibilities' at the border. The restrictions, which allowed border patrol agents to immediately expel immigrants seeking asylum due to the pandemic, was lifted on Friday. DHS Secretary Mayorkas and his deputies expect perhaps 500,000 migrants to arrive at the border each month.
Authorities are anticipating a “disaster” at the southern border because the Biden administration has “no plan” for the expected crush of illegal immigrants. “What are we going to do next? Last year, we were calling it a crisis. This year, it will be a disaster.”—Val Verde County Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez.
In February, 55% of migrants at the border were turned away due to the order. 'His decision to eliminate Title 42 will invite a surge of illegal border crossings, enriching traffickers and overwhelming our great Border Patrol,' McCarthy wrote. President Biden is ending Title 42—which prohibits the entry of immigrants who pose health risks. Yet Americans are still required to wear masks on planes.' Both Republicans and Democrats have warned the president not to drop Title 42 until he has a plan in place to handle the wave of migration that is expected.
“We are increasing our capacity to process new arrivals, evaluate asylum requests,” said a statement from Alejandro Mayorkas, who heads Biden’s Department of Homeland Security and is trying to build an extra immigration system that operates alongside annual limits set by Congress.
The formal announcement implies that the president will not block the border-opening plan by his deputies.
Without the Title 42 rules, Mayorkas and his allies insist they are required to let anyone at the border appeal for asylum. The process has been overloaded, ensuring that all people who apply for asylum can legally work and live in the United States for several years.
“Their plan is to move people into the country faster,” Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said on March 30. “That’s their whole plan.”
The administration’s policy is “not to make it better, but to actually make it worse,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) added.
“We are telling people ‘If you come to the border, and you claim asylum … You can come in,'” Sen. Bob Portman (R-PA) said on March 30. He continued: By the way, there’s a 1.5 million person backlog for dealing with asylum claims. This means that when you are allowed into the country to await an immigration judge looking at your case, there will be anywhere from four to six years before your case is considered. While you’re in the United States, … you’re working, your [illegal migrant] kids are going to school, you’re getting your health care, you’re part of the community.
And obviously a lot of these people don’t show up for their [asylum] court case. Some do, some don’t. But the point is this system is attracting people to the border.
“The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to … stay true to our values,” said a statement from Mayorkas, a Cuban-born, pro-migration zealot, who insists the United States is a “Nation of Immigrants.”
Leaks to establishment media outlets say 500,000 migrants may move to the border each month after Mayorkas opens the doors. Mayorkas is trying to build a new immigration system in cooperation with corporate-funded non-profits and the countries that hope to move some of their populations into the United States.
Mayorkas’s plan would let the additional migrants compete for jobs and apartments against many millions of disadvantaged and ordinary Americans. Those Americans are already facing inflation, rising rents, drug addiction, and extended joblessness, said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
The migration surge is coming. Millions of men, women and children in developing countries are desperately seeking to emigrate to escape poverty, hunger, unemployment, violence and crime. President Biden has opened the border and laid out the welcome mat to all of humanity. In doing so, he has abdicated his responsibilities to the people he was elected to serve—Americans.