![]() ![]() Under Trump in 2020, the vast majority of all migrants were expelled under Title 42 - men, women, children - and illegal crossings dropped to almost nothing. The idea was to prevent overcrowding of CBP facilities during the pandemic. Under Title 42, migrants can be quickly expelled to the country of last transit without going through processing by CBP. The Biden administration is still trying to maintain the fiction that most migrants are being expelled under Title 42, a public health order President Trump invoked in the early days of the pandemic after shutting down the border to prevent the spread of COVID. Saenz also said that back in June, when the city still had resources and capacity to test, between 35 and 40 percent of migrants released by CBP were testing positive for COVID. Video of an overcrowded Border Patrol facility in the Rio Grande Valley Sector from this week.įrom the source: "This has surpassed the point of sustainability - this is lunacy."įed-up BP agents are taking videos/pics to show what's really happening –> /Z1fu6D9M9S When you test then if they’re positive then there’s an obligation there, or duty, to quarantine and that’s expensive and the NGOs don’t really have that capacity here locally,” he said. We much less don’t have the infrastructure of testing and quarantining. ![]() This week, ahead of a meeting with Mayorkas, Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz said his city was in a “public health crisis,” and that municipal officials were chartering four buses a day to send migrants to Austin and Houston after their release from CBP custody. Mayors and local law enforcement are beginning to speak out about the release of thousands of COVID-positive migrants into their communities. Rather than meeting the challenge, the Biden administration has turned a challenge into a crisis, a crisis into chaos, and chaos into a disaster.Īt this point, no one seriously believes that any reasonable precautions could be or are being taken to protect federal agents or migrants from the spread of COVID-19. Speaking in Laredo, Texas, on Thursday, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas once again euphemized the situation, calling it a “challenge,” and adding, in a self-congratulatory aside, “We confront challenges, and we meet them.” Images and video leaked this week by Border Patrol agents show CBP facilities in South Texas that are simply overrun: holding cells packed tight, makeshift fenced outdoor areas filled to standing-room only, migrants lying on the floor in close quarters, many of them mask-less. What these figures amount to, in human terms, is a humanitarian disaster. Customs and Border Protection have had to stretch the x-axis on their chart just to fit the growing monthly number of border arrests.įor the second time this year, CBP chart-makers have had to stretch the x-axis on their graphic, this time to accomodate 200,000+ migrants per month.īlue line is FY2021. Illegal border-crossings have increased every month since last April, sharply increasing in February and March after Biden took office and spiking again from June to JulyĪs the Washington Post’s Nick Miroff noted on Twitter, this is the second time this year the chart-makers at U.S. ![]()
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