Immigration Watch International (2): Historic Levels of Illegal Immigration on Southern Border Likely to Get Worse

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Historic Levels of Illegal Immigration on Southern Border Likely to Get Worse

The historic level of illegal immigration on the Southern border is likely to get much worse, if that’s possible.

On Wednesday, a federal judge declared that the Biden administration had to end Title 42 by Dec. 21. The ruling came from Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.

The Biden administration requested a five-week pause on the order, which was granted.

Title 42 is a health policy, created in the 1940s and implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was invoked by then-President Donald Trump, allowing the quick deportation of illegal immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The policy has bounced around in the courts for a while. The Left hates it, and the Biden administration clearly had little interest in maintaining it.

Title 42’s imminent end is not ideal, to say the least. In particular, it’s not ideal for those who want to contain an already exploding border crisis.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported more than 230,000 border encounters in October alone, a record. According to Fox News, CBP also estimated there were about 64,000 “gotaways” in October, as well. Those are illegal border-crossers who weren’t apprehended.

The October numbers weren’t even an outlier. There were 2.76 million illegal border-crossers in fiscal year 2022, another record. It shattered the previous record of 1.82 million crossings, set last year. So, the total number of border-crossers apprehended is more than the populations of half of all U.S. states. And those are just the apprehensions. Again, an untold number of other illegal immigrants crossed the border without being caught.

Nearly 100 people on the terrorist watchlist were apprehended at the border this year. Given the sheer numbers we’re seeing, it’s easy to see how others could have slipped through.

So, the two most prolific years for illegal immigration in American history happened under President Joe Biden. It’s a crisis by any measure. But the message we’ve been getting from the people in charge of enforcing our border laws is that all is well.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other members of the administration continue to insist the border is “secure.” This makes one wonder whether there is literally any metric that would render it “unsecure” by Biden administration standards. The number of crossings we’re seeing at the southern border are breaking monthly and yearly records. It’s been decades since we’ve seen anything like it.

The excuse Mayorkas came up with at a House hearing on Tuesday was that an uptick in border crossings is a hemispheric phenomenon.

With the elimination of Title 42, the bad situation will almost certainly get worse. The administration says it has a “plan” to deal with the end of Title 42 and the expected surge in Venezuelan migrants heading for the U.S.-Mexican border.

What is that plan?

Mayorkas said at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Thursday that the plan was “building a lawful pathway for them to arrive safely and in an orderly way to the United States” alongside a “consequence regime should they not avail themselves of that lawful pathway”—whatever that means.

It’s hard to take the administration seriously on the “consequence regime” when the administration’s rhetoric and actions suggest that they are entirely comfortable with millions of people breaking U.S. law.

One of Biden’s first actions when he came into office in January 2021 was the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy implemented under Trump. That policy required that asylum-seekers remain in Mexico while their asylum claims were adjudicated. That discouraged bogus asylum claimants and tamped down the number of people crossing the border.

In a July deposition in Florida, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz acknowledged that the Biden administration had caused the drastic increase in people illegally crossing the southern border. It’s due to the administration signaling that there will be minimal or no consequences for lawbreakers.

While one can certainly hope that the Biden administration will suddenly change course, it’s little more than a fool’s hope—especially now that the midterm elections have passed.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/11/18/border-crisis-likely-to-worsen-after-federal-judge-orders-end-to-title-42-expulsion-of-illegals/

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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)

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Historic Levels of Illegal Immigration on Southern Border Likely to Get Worse

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