Posted on 04/09/2019 2:02:19 PM PDT by blam
A caravan-size influx of migrants is flooding across the border each week in just a single sector, a top Border Patrol official told lawmakers Tuesday -- the latest indicator of the growing migration crisis on the southern border.
Much media attention has focused on caravans coming across from Central America, Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Rodolfo Karisch said at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing. But the fact is that RGV is receiving caravan-equivalent numbers every seven days.
Karisch said his sector has apprehended people from 50 different countries, including China, Bangladesh, Turkey, Egypt and Romania.
People are traveling across hemispheres to attempt to illegally enter the U.S., using the same pathways as the Central Americans, he said.
Karisch noted that Border Patrol has apprehended more families illegally crossing the border in the first five months of fiscal 2019 than during all of fiscal 2018. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended more than 76,000 migrants across the border in February and said it was on track to apprehend more than 100,000 in March.
In the Rio Grande Valley alone, Karisch said that at current pace, they would have more than 260,000 apprehensions in his sector by the end of fiscal 2019. There were 162,000 in RGV last year. He also said that his agents apprehend, on average, 1,000 people a day.
Karischs testimony is the latest warning from officials that there is an escalating crisis at the border. President Trump, who declared a national emergency at the border in February, traveled to the border on Friday and repeated his warnings that he is prepared to close the border if Congress and Mexico do not act to close loopholes and stop migrant flows -- though he has indicated such an action is not imminent.
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But it’s all natural, organic, not organized, just coincidental, etc etc etc
Let’s be clear: this is an invasion being aided and abetted by Democrats. If they would cooperate, this problem would be brought under control. We can fantasize all day about machine gunning invaders at the border, but we know that’s not going to happen. POTUS needs to do something unilaterally. Here are some suggestions
1. Crack down big time on employers. Take some of that $7 billion and beef up work authorization enforcement big time. If they can’t make any money, they will go home. If nothing else, we can get dems on record defending illegal employment.
2. Investigate and expose the Americans who are down there organizing the caravans. These people are not just spontaneously getting together and marching north. They have organizers and lawyers managing logistics and coaching them on what to say when they get up here. Pueblo Sin Fronteras is one such organization out of Chicago. The AG should also be looking at how they can be prosecuted for their role in this mess.
We need practical, out of the box thinking. Anybody want to add some suggestions?
If the come from Mexico we should assume they are Mexicans. Are they carrying birth certificates? They are Mexicans, deport them
Who the hell is paying for this f***ing invasion??????????????????????
We can’t even get a line in the sand.
Here’s are more ideas: They claim that this is all our fault because of the situation in Honduras. POTUS should announce that problems in Honduras are making too many problems here, so we are sending an aircraft carrier and the Marines down there to rescue the Honduran people. Maybe we can control the border from their side and not ours. Maybe just the threat will stop them.
Potus also needs to communicate that the asylum thing is bogus. If they are really in need of asylum, they should get it in the first civilized country they enter, per international law. If Guatemala or Mexico are not civilized, fine. Make the libs say it. Out loud.
The legacy media and their biased reporting is a big part of the problem. Let’s induce some cognitive dissonance. Canada has 10% of the population of the US. Send 10% of the migrants to Canada. The Canadians will repel them. Let the media reconcile this with what they expect us to do here.
We need more out of the box ideas, folks.
There was a reason why Japan feared coming to the American mainland.
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