Posted on 06/05/2024 8:49:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Joe Biden announced an executive order this week that he claims will “help us to gain control of our border, restore order to the process” by banning migrants from seeking asylum if they cross the border illegally. At first glance, this seems like a welcome move to reduce a major pull factor for illegal crossings, even if it flies in the face of Biden’s claim in January that he had “done all I can do” on the border.
As always, though, the devil is in the details. First, the limitations on asylum seekers only kick in once illegal crossings exceed 2,500 per day, which is nearly one million per year. As Ammon Blair, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation told me, Biden is going to “meter the invasion.”
As you read further, the executive order contains all kinds of loopholes that render it effectively useless, even during the emergency scenario.
Unaccompanied minors are exempt from the restrictions on asylum, so families will be incentivized to send their children into the United States alone and they will be trafficked across the border.
Cartels will also take advantage of the unaccompanied minor exemption by telling illegal migrants to ditch their documents before they get to the border or by creating false documents that state migrants are under the age of eighteen.
Illegal aliens may also claim asylum between ports of entry if there are victims of “severe trafficking,” which is defined as being induced by force, fraud or coercion into providing sexual acts or labor services. As the cartel has effective control of the southern border, this applies to practically every single person who crosses into the United States illegally. Women pay for safe passage with sex, while men pay with labor. “Nobody crosses without paying the cartels,” senior border patrol agent John Modlin testified to Congress in 2023.
The order prohibits border patrol agents from asking credible fear questions to illegal crossers, but these individuals may still invoke an asylum claim to avoid or get temporary relief from an expedited removal.
Finally, the DHS secretary may override the asylum restrictions laid out because the memo specifies that he can allow any illegal to enter for “humanitarian” reasons.
This is all not withstanding the fact that asylum restrictions have nothing to do with the 30,000 people per month let in via Biden’s parole program, nor the thousands weekly who enter the US through the CBP One app program, which merely gives migrants a later date for an asylum screening and gives them the opportunity to get a work permit.
Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren chastised Biden for his executive order, describing it as a “functional ban on asylum,” to which immigration restrictionists might reply, “If only!”
How soon do daily counts come out? It will be quickly clear that this was a farce.
The great thing about Biden’s BS is that so much is readily understandable by even low information voters. Anyone who does not favor uncontrolled immigration who sees the top line numbers will understand that this plan is no plan at all
The prog actually think they are tricking everyone with this flimsy BS.
And once again the screeching indignation will be firehosed out from the prog shill talking heads the instant someone points out the flimsy BS.
FBI and DOJ will assign 261 agents to each American Citizen rumored to have actually ACTUALLY DISCUSSED the issue in private (thus proving they are hiding something).
There will be 4,235,954,852 charges brought against each American Citizen and all court proceedings will be confidential, no witnesses allowed and when found guilty they will sentence them to a concrete box until the sun goes super-nova.
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https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1799875111228694594
NEW: @FoxNews has obtained an internal Border Patrol memo sent to agents in San Diego sector after President Biden’s executive order took effect, instructing them to release single adults from all but six countries in the eastern hemisphere & classifying them as “hard” or “very hard” to remove.
Specifically, the memo instructs agents to process all single adults from 100+ countries in the eastern hemisphere as NTA/OR, which means “Notice to Appear/Release on Own Recognizance”, except for six countries which are deemed “mandatory referral” countries (Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan).
President Biden & DHS promised consequences & removal for those who cross illegally between ports of entry after the executive order took effect - but the overwhelming majority of illegal crossers in San Diego sector, including the Chinese, Middle Eastern, & African adults we’ve been showing, are still being released into the U.S. with future court dates, as our coverage has shown repeatedly with Border Patrol mass releases at a trolley station in San Diego.
In a background call with reporters, DHS officials acknowledged the difficulty of removing illegal immigrants from eastern hemisphere countries, as some governments won’t cooperate with U.S. repatriation flights/travel documents & won’t take their citizens back.
DHS officials said they are engaged with these countries and are trying to enhance cooperation.
Bottom line in the short term: Mass catch & release continues for illegal immigrants in San Diego sector, who continue pouring in from all around the globe.
H/T to @Anna_Giaritelli, who was the first reporter to scoop this memo.
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