Immigration Watch International (2): Federal judge blocks Biden from ending Title 42

Monday, May 23, 2022

Federal judge blocks Biden from ending Title 42

Against his will, President Joe Biden got a small reprieve from his self-inflicted border crisis by U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays when he issued a temporary injunction on Friday, May 20 against Biden’s order to end Title 42, which was supposed to happen Monday, May 23.

To the consternation of not a few of his fellow Democrats, Biden’s administration issued the order to end the CDC’s public health order meant to protect Americans from infectious diseases and viruses such as COVID-19 by allowing CBP to immediately expel illegal border-crossers back to Mexico or country of origin in early April.

Upon issuing the order, more than 20 states including Arizona and Texas which share a border with Mexico filed a lawsuit challenging President Biden’s authority to end Title 42 at this time. Judge Summerhays considered the lawsuit on its merits and determined irreparable harm could be done to the states and issued his injunction.

But now that President Biden has been given a reprieve from his ill-conceived order, will he do right by the American public and capitalize on this ruling by making a course correction on his failed border security policies? Or, will he exercise his executive powers to defy the judiciary, a co-equal branch of government?

If history is a guide and as we rely upon the following evidence, we must conclude the answer is the latter.

First, President Trump applied Title 42 to all countries uniformly. Under his leadership nearly 98 percent of all illegal border-crossers were expelled upon apprehension, which was one of the reasons he was able to keep criminal cartels in check and illegal border crossings to relatively low levels.

But under President Biden, the percentage of Title 42 expulsions dwindled month over month until last month in April he expelled less than 50 percent of those who crossed the border illegally. While President Trump applied Title 42 to all countries, President Biden has given carve-outs to nearly all countries except for a few like Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

Second, President Trump ended the catch-and-release program which got rid of the magnet that draws so many people to our borders and allows the cartels to generate billions of dollars in profit. In other words, Trump stopped rewarding people for violating our laws by releasing them into the U.S. and instead delivered a consequence for all who crossed our borders illegally. But upon taking office, President Biden immediately reversed President Trump’s policies and brought back catch-and-release on a scale never before seen. In fact, last month, President Biden released more than 110,000 illegal border-crossers into the U.S. while only expelling approximately 95,000.

Because the Biden administration is actually encouraging people to cross our borders illegally by rewarding them with a free pass into the U.S., is there any wonder why illegal immigration has exploded?

The judge’s decision on Title 42 gives admin more ‘time’ to get a handle on the border: Susan PageVideo
Third, the explosion in illegal immigration is forcing the Border Patrol to assign more agents to administrative duties instead of to enforcement duties. And so, cartels are exploiting deficiencies in the Border Patrol’s operations and the number of got-aways has not only hit record highs but has passed the point of being extremely dangerous to the American public. More than 750,000 illegal border-crossers have been able to evade apprehension after being detected. This number shatters all previous records.

Fourth, historically at this time of the year, the Border Patrol apprehends approximately 1,400 illegal border-crossers per day. But due to President Biden’s policies, including his selective enforcement of Title 42, the number of daily arrests currently stands at more than 7,000. These sheer numbers have caused the destabilization of the southwest border, granting control of large portions to criminal cartels.

While all of this is bad, it can change immediately. And Judge Summerhays gave President Biden the political coverage he needs to make a course correction.

Under the guise of the rule of law, President Biden can use Summerhays's ruling to push back against open border activists and implement policies that will allow the Border Patrol to secure the border, something he has failed to do to this point in his administration. If there are any smart people in the White House, they will wake up and realize that although not wanted, Judge Summerhays's ruling is a boon, and they will urge the president to comply with the ruling completely.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/immigration-title-42-border-control

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

Immigration Watch International (2)

Monday, May 23, 2022

Federal judge blocks Biden from ending Title 42

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