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When You Think the Border Crisis Can't Get Worse, It Does
Townhall.com ^ | May 10, 2022 | Adam Turner

Posted on 05/10/2022 4:31:05 AM PDT by Kaslin


Source: Townhall Media/Katie Pavlich>

Just when you think the situation at the Southern border can’t get any worse, it does. Last week, Texas National Guardsman SPC Bishop E. Evans drowned attempting to save two migrants from drowning. It was later revealed the migrants “were involved in illicit transnational narcotics trafficking.” This tragic incident highlights a number of questions that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) needs to answer.

So, what is DHS going to do about the border crisis? With Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifying on the Hill, the DHS produced a 20-page memo outlining his six-point plan to manage the southern border, called the DHS Plan for Southwest Border Security and Preparedness. The memo provides no new ideas that are not already in place. Further, it appears to have been hastily cobbled together in response to concerns the federal government had no plan to replace Title 42, the act that empowers the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to remove illegal immigrants who cross the border and could be infected with COVID-19. This is not an adequate substitute for Title 42, however. When Title 42 ends, it is estimated that the number of illegal aliens entering this country daily could hit 18,000, more than double the current 8,000. The DHS Plan relies on Title 8 and other existing authorities, which, unlike Title 42, will allow those entering illegally a chance to file asylum claims, making it harder to remove them.

Why is the government rescinding Title 42? Under Title 42, 1.7 million illegals, the majority of asylum seekers apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, have been expelled immediately back to Mexico or their country of origin, without the chance to file asylum claims. The administration has announced that Title 42 will end on May 23, as the CDC ruled that the pandemic emergency is over because COVID-19 cases have decreased and vaccines are widely available. But is this true? After all, the federal government is still appealing the decision to repeal the mask mandate on public transit, saying it is necessary to fight the pandemic. To see if the pandemic has really abated, my organization has submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to determine the number of illegal migrants who test positive and negative for COVID-19.

Is DHS outsourcing human trafficking? Most disturbingly, the plan also shovels more money at non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including Southwest Key Programs and BCFS, to ferry illegal immigrants throughout the country. This operation has been compared to a human trafficking program. This is ironic, since many of the same people who complained of how dehumanizing “kids in cages” were during the previous administration seem to have no problem with this program, which is far more dehumanizing and dangerous. For example, there were at least 33 incidents of alleged sexual abuse in a one-month period in 2021.

Where is the money going? According to media reports, most of the money goes to at least half a dozen NGOs. These groups ostensibly offer help with housing, educational, medical, and other services but DHS has provided little information on the details of where these funds are being spent, another area my organization is exploring with our FOIA requests.

Where are the illegal immigrants being sent? In 2021, at least 71,617 illegal immigrants were dropped off in nearly 20 cities including locales as far from the Mexican border as Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. However, these cities are probably not the final destinations, which are unknown.

Are local officials being notified when migrants are being sent to their areas? This program is incredibly controversial, as the local communities they are sent to are in the dark about the whole operation. Outside of the federal government, which isn’t telling, no one knows where these migrants end up. Local sheriffs, citing potential criminal and terrorism concerns, have demanded that they be given notice when illegal immigrants are sent to their counties, but so far this has not happened. My organization has made Freedom of Information Act requests here, too, to find out how many migrants are being shipped around the country, where they are going, what organizations are involved, and how much federal money is being spent.

Why are there so many unanswered questions about DHS’s plans for the border? The chaos on the southern border shows the federal government is either incredibly incompetent or is deliberately fomenting the chaos. Congressman Jim Jordan, in his opening statement at a Judiciary Committee hearing, came out in favor of deliberately fomenting chaos.

"The chaos on our southern border is not an accident. It's deliberate, it's on purpose, it's by design. resident Biden on Day One said there'll be a moratorium on deportations, he ended Remain in Mexico, he terminated agreements with Northern Triangle countries and he stopped building the wall. Those policies, done intentionally, have led to all kinds of bad outcomes… Americans want legal immigration. resident Biden and Secretary Mayorkas want illegal immigration. They want illegal migrants to come, stay and never go home. Now, the secretary won't say that. In fact, he says everything's just fine. He said it yesterday in two congressional hearings. He said it last September. Quote, 'The border is secure,' he told us.'"

Eliminating Title 42 will only make things worse. So will the DHS plan and its increase in funding to ferry illegal immigrants throughout the nation. Which, if Congressman Jordan is right, is all part of the administration’s plan.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; bordercrisis; immigrantsfirsters; migrantsurge

1 posted on 05/10/2022 4:31:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin; All

For too many here the Ukraine and Russophobia are now much more important


2 posted on 05/10/2022 4:47:19 AM PDT by robowombat (Orth, all y,)
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To: Kaslin

Don’t let a crisis, such as a huge invasion of unknown foreigners, go to waste, by taking advantage of the opportunity to divert tons of taxpayers’ money into the pockets of the well connected (to the Deep State).


3 posted on 05/10/2022 5:00:57 AM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: Kaslin

What I’m dreading is when they rush in to fix the problem that they caused.
All these migrants are going to make the housing situation so much worse at a time when the economy is tanking.

Brace yourselves.


4 posted on 05/10/2022 5:17:19 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
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To: READINABLUESTATE
All these migrants are going to make the housing situation so much worse at a time when the economy is tanking.

They are already filling up hotels/motels and rental property. Not to mention filling up our schools, hospitals, welfare offices and jails.

It will get worse before it gets better. Way worse.

5 posted on 05/10/2022 5:27:08 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Kaslin

The majority of uneducated disease carrying folk will become the new antifa members once they see this country is no longer, in there imagination, is $$ paved in gold! Soros and the left-wing evil global socialist RATS will fund their protest activities with taxpayers $$$. We have lost the country we grew up in. That country does not exist anymore. The invaders are watching closely how the demonic crowd easily has broken A CONSTITUTIONAL law attacking Supreme Court justices without repercussions so now they think anything goes! Laws Don’t exist anymore for the criminals only for the right! Folks, let me introduce you to the new demonic regime!


6 posted on 05/10/2022 5:59:42 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Kaslin

Amnesty Senators Cornyn and Tillis putting their Amnesty Gang back together to sing the siren song of amnesty is not helping.

Be sure to re-elect Amnesty Senators Rubio and Hoeven..../s


7 posted on 05/10/2022 6:25:17 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

This is what both parties cheated Trump out for, to get the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) back on track.

This is completely bipartisan and has been for 30 years.


8 posted on 05/10/2022 6:26:51 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin
The chaos on our southern border is not an accident. It's deliberate, it's on purpose, it's by design

Elections have consequences, Biden voters wanted to ruin our country, and that's what they got.

9 posted on 05/10/2022 6:29:41 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Amnesty Senators Cornyn and Tillis putting their Amnesty Gang back together to sing the siren song of amnesty is not helping.”

Donald Trump endorsed Thom Tillis for the US Senate in North Carolina in the 2020 election cycle. The fact Tillis was soft on immigration was known then.


10 posted on 05/10/2022 6:32:00 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: Soul of the South

He endorsed Grahamnesty, Cornyn, and a slew of other Bush Leaguers in 2020 and this cycle he has endorsed Amnesty Senators Hoeven and Rubio.

We will never Make America Great Again by re-electing Assistant Democrats.

Amnesty is the opposite of MAGA.


11 posted on 05/10/2022 6:36:26 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 1Old Pro

Stolen elections are a direct consequence of allowing an ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia to usurp the office of President and corrupt the entire federal government.

The Kenyanesian Usurpation was as bipartisan as the illegal alien inundation and the Big Steal.

BOTH parties wanted this.


12 posted on 05/10/2022 6:39:16 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

Texas National Guardsman SPC Bishop E. Evans drowned attempting to save two migrants from drowning.

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Mr.Evans had the heart of a Coastie.

God bless him and his.


13 posted on 05/10/2022 6:59:50 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Kaslin

Democrats doing what democrats do no surprise here.


14 posted on 05/10/2022 7:53:43 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: robowombat

When Title 42 ends, it is estimated that the number of illegal aliens entering this country daily could hit 18,000 - more than double the current 8,000.


15 posted on 05/10/2022 6:58:06 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Theophilous Meatyard III

Mexico is invading our country like Russia is invading Ukraine.


16 posted on 05/10/2022 6:59:02 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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