Immigration Watch International (2): El Paso may stop sending migrant buses to NYC over Biden policy change

Monday, October 17, 2022

El Paso may stop sending migrant buses to NYC over Biden policy change

El Paso’s migrant bus program, which has flooded New York City with thousands of new border arrivals since August, could soon end, an official in the Texas city told The Post.

El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino said the Democrat-led border city may stop busing migrants to the Big Apple in light of the new Biden administration policy that would instead send asylum-seeking Venezuelans back to Mexico if they cross into the US illegally.

“We realize that we won’t need the charters, so at the point, we will start handling it differently,” D’Agostino said.

Migrants from Venezuela have been arriving in El Paso from Mexico in historic numbers, at about 2,100 a day. The migrants — who illegally enter the US, then claim asylum, leading to a lengthy court process — have been making up a vast majority of the immigrants bused to the Big Apple.

At its busing effort’s peak about two weeks ago, El Paso had been sending nine to 14 buses filled with migrants to New York City daily.

But since Biden announced that Venezuelans could be kicked out of the country under the Trump-era Title 42 rules, the bus numbers have dropped to four to eight vehicles daily.

Fewer buses would be welcome news to Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who declared a “state of emergency” earlier this month as he predicted the migrant influx would cost the city $1 billion by next year.

New York City is currently in the midst of controversial plans to build a “tent city” for the migrants on Randall’s Island.

The Post was on the ground in El Paso on Sunday as four charter buses with mostly Venezuelans departed from the city — two bound for New York and two for Chicago, another location El Paso has been sending migrants.

D’Agostino, who is in regular contact with the US Border Patrol and Mexican authorities, said El Paso officials have been told it will take seven to 10 days to see the number of Venezuelans being allowed to stay in the country to drop.

Currently, only some immigrants from Venezuela are being expelled to Mexico, and the criteria for who gets sent back and who gets to stay in the US is still unclear.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/16/el-paso-may-stop-sending-migrant-buses-to-nyc-over-biden-policy-change/

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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.

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El Paso may stop sending migrant buses to NYC over Biden policy change

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