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Dont for one second believe the spin from the Biden White House about the immigration crisis at our southern border that is being parroted by its pious corporate media cronies. There is absolutely nothing normal or seasonal about the border crisis and the unprecedented wave of migrants who are streaming into our country.

Recently released apprehension figures from April show that more than 178,000 people were caught illegally entering the U.S. a 944 percent increase from a year ago. This is the highest total for a single month in more than two decades.

Single adults are driving the surge, but the unaccompanied alien children (UACs) the most vulnerable illegal immigrants are a chief concern. Statistics show that 17,171 UACs were apprehended in April, the second highest number in the Border Patrols 96-year history. And not surprisingly, the number of unaccompanied minor children in federal custody (some 20,000) is the highest on record.

Unfortunately, at the helm of the Biden immigration fleet is the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro MayorkasAlejandro MayorkasBiden administration renews Temporary Protected Status for Haiti Additional 22k guest worker visas to become available Tuesday DHS directs end to immigration detention in two jails under investigation MORE, despite his reputation of being no friend of immigration enforcement and a key architect of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. With the nation enduring a pandemic and facing threats of terrorism, Mayorkas was confirmed swiftly by the Senate with a bipartisan vote of 56 to 43. Senators of both parties gave him the benefit of the doubt that hed uphold his pledge to defend and secure our country in the midst of several national crises.

They clearly made a mistake.

Since taking office, Mayorkas has done everything in his power to incentivize illegal immigration into this country. Catch-and-release is in full swing, with tens of thousands of undocumented migrants being released into the country many without COVID-19 test. Their removal from the interior of the country has slowed to a trickle and critical agreements with our Central American neighbors to tamp down on asylum abuses have been canned.

Despite this dereliction of duty, its unlikely that Mayorkas will step down from his job or be fired. Still, he has a responsibility to assess the border crisis that he has helped to create and reconsider the three people hes backing to lead the agencies that work under him to protect the border, enforce immigration laws in the interior of the country, and oversee the legal immigration process. President BidenJoe BidenHarris to 2021 grads: Pandemic prepared you for 'pretty much anything' Senate Armed Services chair throws support behind changing roles of military commanders in sexual assault prosecutions Biden adviser says reducing red meat isn't sole climate change solution MORE has nominated three individuals to fill critical roles who are unacceptable for the positions, given their track records:

Theres a lot the Biden administration could do to curb some of the policy abuses theyve put in place, but what the Senate can do is refuse to confirm these candidates the president has nominated to help enforce the nations immigration laws. Putting yet another layer of people in charge of federal agencies whose very mission they oppose is a colossal mistake. Clearly, a lot of damage has been done with Mayorkas in the lead, but Biden shouldnt make things worse.

Dave Ray is director of communications at Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

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Biden's immigration agency choices won't help end the border crisis | TheHill - The Hill

Migrants from Venezuela await transportation to a U.S. border patrol facility after crossing the Rio Grande river in Del Rio, Texas, May 11, 2021. (James Breeden/Reuters)

People around the world are responding to La Invitacion delivered by President Biden through his campaign rhetoric and executive actions.

The border crisis continues, with the total number of illegal immigrants encountered at the border in April at a 21-year high for that month, though up just 3 percent from March. But families (adults traveling with minors) from countries other than the usual Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador made up 30 percent of all illegal-alien families apprehended in April, up a whopping 34 percent from the previous month.

The New York Times reports that theyre coming not only from farther afield in Latin America Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil but also from India and the Middle East. The reporter quotes the director of a shelter in Tucson that helps illegal immigrants after theyve been released into the U.S. by the Border Patrol as saying, We never worked with such large numbers with this diversity, including speakers of Arabic, Haitian Creole, Hindi, and Portuguese.

This being the New York Times, the story is framed as being about pandemic refugees, which is not a thing, because fleeing unimaginable levels of illness and death and decimated economies and livelihoods doesnt make you eligible for the line-cutting exemption from immigration limits that is asylum.

But theres no hiding the fact that the border crisis is entirely a creation of President Biden:

While most of the migrants do not necessarily understand the intricacies of U.S. border policy, many said in interviews that they perceived a limited-time offer to enter the United States. Friends and family members already in the country, along with smugglers eager to cash in, have assured them that they will not be turned away and this is proving to be true.

What were hearing back home is that the new president is facilitating entry, and there is demand for labor, said Rodrigo Neto, who came from Brazil, where the pandemic killed his business and left him overwhelmed by debt. I couldnt pass up this opportunity.

The article notes that Border Patrol agents have apprehended people from more than 160 countries, and the geography coincides with the path of the viruss worst devastation but since there are about 190-something countries in the world (depending on how you count), the geography coincides with the entirety of the Third World. As word spreads, more people will be coming from farther and farther afield to take Biden up on his limited-time offer of an open border. Or, as the Times story blandly put it, The numbers in coming months are expected to be higher.

And for anyone who thinks any of these people will ever be made to leave, regardless of what happens with their asylum claims (assuming they even bother to apply for asylum), theres this:

Measures imposed under the Obama administration, such as fitting migrants with ankle monitors to ensure that they attend court hearings later, are only sparingly used.

Were left to pine for the good old days of the Obama administrations slightly less frivolous border policies.

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They Heard It through the Grapevine: Illegals Are Coming from All Over - National Review

The Biden administration on Saturday extended special protections to Haitians living temporarily in the United States after being displaced by a devastating 2010 earthquake, reversing efforts by the previous administration to force them to leave the country.

The decision, announced by the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, makes good on President Bidens campaign promise to restore a program that shields thousands of Haitian migrants from the threat of deportation under the restrictive policies put in place under President Donald J. Trump.

Mr. Mayorkas said the new 18-month designation, known as temporary protected status, would apply to Haitians already living in the United States as of Friday.

Haiti is currently experiencing serious security concerns, social unrest, an increase in human rights abuses, crippling poverty, and lack of basic resources, which are exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, Mr. Mayorkas said in a statement on Saturday.

The protections, created in a 1990 law, allow foreigners who have had to flee their homes because of natural disasters and conflict to work and live in the United States. Haiti is one of 11 countries that are beneficiaries of the program, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Obama administration granted the temporary protected status to Haitians living in the United States illegally after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in January 2010.

Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the new designation could protect as many as 150,000 Haitians from having to return to the political and security crisis in their home country.

The last thing our country should be doing is forcing an entire community in the U.S. to decide between packing up their lives and tearing their families apart by self-deporting, or becoming undocumented and forced into the shadows of our society, Mr. Menendez said in a statement on Saturday.

As part of its hard-line efforts to curb legal and illegal immigration, the Trump administration sought to end protections for about 400,000 immigrants living in the United States, including Haitians. Officials at the time said that the emergency conditions that had compelled the immigrants to flee their countries earthquakes, hurricanes, civil war had occurred long ago and that most of the immigrants no longer needed the haven provided by the United States.

Lawsuits blocked the cancellations, but in September a federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration, putting hundreds of thousands of immigrants on notice that they would have to leave the country or face deportation. Many of the people affected had been living in the United States for years. The Trump administration agreed to keep the protections in place at least through early 2021, meaning a new administration could decide to continue the policy.

Immigration advocates have called on the Biden administration to restore the temporary designation for Haitians and other immigrants living in the country and welcomed the decision announced on Saturday.

Better late than never, the National T.P.S. Alliance, a grass-roots organization wrote on Twitter.

In March, the Biden administration issued special protections for as many as 320,000 Venezuelans living in the United States, citing the extraordinary humanitarian crisis in the country under the leadership of President Nicols Maduro.

But some said more needed to be done to give many of those immigrants permission to live in the United States permanently.

Haitians have been living in uncertainty for the past several months, Erika Andiola, the chief advocacy officer for the nonprofit organization Raices, said in a statement. In the future, that uncertainly could be solved by a permanent fix through legislation that puts T.P.S. holders on the path to citizenship, she added, using the abbreviation for the program.

This month, the House passed a bill that would create a path to citizenship for an estimated four million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, including those granted temporary protected status for humanitarian reasons. The bill passed mostly along party lines, and getting it through the more evenly divided Senate is likely to be a challenge.

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US Grants Temporary Protection Status to Thousands of Haitians - The New York Times

The more we learn about the true dimensions of the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, the worse it is. Now, a new report says that in the last few months, U.S. authorities have encountered illegal border crossers not just from Mexico, or the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, but from 160 nations around the globe. People are coming to Mexico from the most distant spots on the planet in order to cross illegally into the United States, confident that President Biden will let them stay. And Biden is doing just that.

More than 12,500 Ecuadoreans were encountered in March, up from 3,568 in January, The New York Times Miriam Jordan reported. Nearly 4,000 Brazilians and more than 3,500 Venezuelans were intercepted, up from just 300 and 284, respectively, in January. The numbers in coming months are expected to be higher.

And then there are the migrants coming from India and Asia.

Some reported taking buses in their hometowns to a big city, like Mumbai, Jordan noted, where they boarded planes to Dubai and then connected through Moscow, Paris and Madrid, finally flying to Mexico City. From there, they embarked on the two-day bus ride to reach the Mexico-U.S. border. Aid workers report seeing migrants from everywhere Arabic, Haitian Creole, Hindi and Portuguese speakers, among many others.

Many of them are entering the United States through wide openings in the border wall near Yuma, Arizona, sparing them from the risky routes through remote desert regions, the Times said. That would be the border wall that Democrats and their allies in the courts and media did everything they could to stop President Trump from building. Now, the world is flooding in through gaps in the wall that Trump was able to build or strengthen.

Why are they coming? Because they have heard correctly that this moment presents a huge opportunity to enter the United States illegally without fear of being sent home.

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While most of the migrants do not necessarily understand the intricacies of U.S. border policy, many said in interviews that they perceived a limited-time offer to enter the United States, Jordan wrote. Friends and family members already in the country, along with smugglers eager to cash in, have assured them that they will not be turned away and this is proving to be true. What were hearing back home is that the new president is facilitating entry, and there is demand for labor, said Rodrigo Neto, who came from Brazil.

And so they are crossing the border in record numbers 178,622 known cases in April, on top of 172,331 in March. Look for there to be even more in May.

The situation is absolutely, completely, 100% Bidens fault. Yes, it is what many Democrats wanted. It is what many activists and commentators wanted. For that matter, it is what The New York Times editorial board wanted. But the fact is, it would not happen without the president of the United States making it happen. The president could order border officials under his authority to enforce the law and turn away those who have no legal right to enter the United States other than at a port of entry.

But Biden does just the opposite. The president is not trying to stop the flow of illegal crossers. Instead, he is trying to accommodate the flow, scrambling to find housing and living arrangements for those coming in. The message has gotten out to the world, and the world is coming.

The president, members of Congress and most Americans would never tolerate such a situation at the nations airports or seaports. When anyone flies into the United States from abroad, landing at, say, Atlanta Hartsfield or Chicago OHare or LAX, the U.S. government demands that every single person present documents showing that he or she has a legal right to enter the country. Would anyone advocate scrapping that system and letting anyone and everyone enter, with or without documents? Of course not.

Yet that is the situation that Biden is not only tolerating but encouraging at the border. It is a grossly irresponsible way to run immigration policy. The United States, which like other countries has developed elaborate procedures to control who is able to enter and leave the country at its airports and other ports, has thrown the whole system away at the border. Starting with the presidential campaign and continuing through his time in the White House, Biden has sent the message that virtually anyone can enter the U.S. and be allowed to stay. The crisis at the border is the result.

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Byron York is chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner.

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BYRON YORK: Illegal immigrants flowing across southern border with Mexico - The Albany Herald

What is so galling about the continued transport of migrant children through Chattanooga is not the private firms allowing their facilities to be used and not the nonprofit organizations fulfilling their missions to help protect minor children but that the children's continued illegal flow into the country is not only allowed but sanctioned by the president of the United States.

The fact that it has been done under cover of darkness (the most recent instance a flight into Wilson Air Center at the Chattanooga Municipal Airport late last Saturday, according to WRCB-TV)), with tarps shielding movement at a local facility last month, with no notice to state officials, is tacit acknowledgement that what is occurring is wrong, against the law.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, and U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann all have made the Biden administration aware of their dismay at the flagrant flouting of the law. But they can only get in line.

Children have been brought to Nashville, Knoxville and Atlanta, as well as Chattanooga, a source close to the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Nashville's FOX 17 News this week. The source indicated chains of buses from those cities often transport them to larger cities such as New York, Chicago or Miami.

"There are drop-offs in small towns and big cities all along the routes," the source said. "I don't know if they're going into other processing centers. In some cases, family members are waiting to find these children ... But my understanding in a number of these cases, these kids are fresh across the border ... They have intentionally not shared a lot of information with us. They don't want this to get out."

The source said most of the trips originate in Dallas and that Department of Defense regulations require different buses along the way.

"The bus comes through in the middle of the night," he said. "The kids get on a different bus ... The bus goes another eight or nine, 10 hours; they'll make a couple stops along the way ... Then they'll get on another bus, go another eight or nine hours. So they have chained all of these companies together. They go from one bus company to another bus company to another bus company. It's very sad."

A bus driver, also speaking in anonymity, told the television station she is given scant details about the trips she is to take.

(READ MORE: Immigration experts say Tennessee officials are misguided in criticizing unaccompanied migrant children program)

"I myself am kind of in the dark," she said. "... The whole thing is last minute."

The driver said while she has observed some touching reunions of children with family members, "I think that's the exception, not the rule."

A record 19,000 migrant children entered the United States illegally in March. That followed 9,500 in February. The number in April was expected to be lower than that in March, according to administration officials, but the highest number for April in history.

In early May, 22,195 children were in custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Whether that number included the number dispersed at the expense of the administration into the interior of the country was not known.

Late last month, Lee told this page that he had declined the Biden administration's request to house migrant children in Tennessee "for a number of reasons," but mainly because the administration could not clarify information state officials sought and because the state was "not equipped to handle them in those facilities" being suggested.

He said the state was not told about the children brought into Chattanooga and hosted by Redemption to the Nations Church in April, and that the whole movement of migrant children including some being trafficked and others being smuggled in by "coyotes" earning enormous fees is "incredibly unsafe," places them in "increasing danger" and "has to be stopped."

"They're calling an audible in the middle of a crisis because they don't know what to do," Lee said of the Biden administration. "The answer is to secure the border."

The state has taken refugee children before, and the Tennessee governor indicated the state "can be good-faith partners" again.

The problem, though, not just for this state but for all states, is the Biden administration's unwillingness to control the flow at the Southern border, its hypocrisy about why it wants more illegal immigrants here (for "bought" votes down the road), and its incredible lack of transparency and communication about the movement of minors within states.

That the country's leaders would ever facilitate its laws to be broken, and make children pawns in doing so, would have been unimaginable and unconscionable to those who founded the nation on freedom, liberty and the rule of law.

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