Immigration Watch International (2): Border Crisis Milestone: 2 Million Illegals Released into U.S.

Friday, April 28, 2023

Border Crisis Milestone: 2 Million Illegals Released into U.S.

A new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals that the number of illegal migrants released into the United States by the Biden administration’s catch-and-release policies has now passed the 2 million mark.

The milestone of 2 million illegal-immigrant releases is calculated from publicly available data and is a conservative figure. A complete accounting of the number of releases would include certain data which the administration has hidden from the public, such as the number of migrants released by CBP’s Office of Field Operations after June 30, 2022, or aliens transferred by CBP at the Southwest border to ICE and released after that date.

An additional 1.4 million aliens have illegally entered the country after having been detected, but not apprehended, by the Border Patrol, so-called “got-aways”.

These policies have not only allowed these illegal migrants to enter the United States, but have also encouraged an untold number of additional migrants to make the dangerous journey to the Southwest border.

Andrew Arthur, the Center’s resident fellow in law and policy and author of the posting, notes that “the United States is now in unchartered waters, allowing entry to more illegal aliens than legal immigrants; in all of FY 2021 and FY2022, DHS gave out only about 1.76 million new green cards to lawful immigrants.”

Arthur continued, “As Barbara Jordan, civil rights icon and former chairwoman of President Clinton’s bipartisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, said in 1994, ‘If we cannot control illegal immigration, we cannot sustain our national interest in legal immigration. Those who come here illegally, and those who hire them, will destroy the credibility of our immigration policies and their implementation. In the course of that, I fear, they will destroy our commitment to immigration itself.’ That’s exactly what’s happening in the United States today.”

President Biden’s refusal to disclose total figures on migrant releases at the Southwest border makes it difficult to get a full accounting of the number of illegal migrants who have been released into the United States. Most of the publicly available information on Biden administration’s migrant releases comes from a court order in Texas v. Biden, a case filed by the states of Texas and Missouri in April 2021 to force DHS to re-implement the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP better known as Remain in Mexico).

The judge in that case required DHS to file monthly reports with the court disclosing the total number of migrants released by DHS at the Southwest border. After that order was lifted, the Biden administration refused to voluntarily disclose information on the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants released by OFO and ICE, although Border Patrol does publish monthly statistics on its Southwest border releases.

https://cis.org/Arthur/Bidens-Released-Least-2020522-Southwest-Border-Migrants

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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)

Friday, April 28, 2023

Border Crisis Milestone: 2 Million Illegals Released into U.S.

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