Immigration Watch International (2): El Paso to issue new state of emergency as border facilities hit capacity ahead of Title 42 expiration

Monday, May 1, 2023

El Paso to issue new state of emergency as border facilities hit capacity ahead of Title 42 expiration

El Paso, Texas will declare a new state of emergency on Monday as border facilities have reached capacity due to migrants flooding in from Mexico before Title 42 expires on May 11.

Mayor Oscar Leeser warned that his border city could buckle under the pressure of thousands of migrants seeking aid, with more expected to come as the US ends the federal pandemic-era policy which has allowed officials to kick millions of people back to Mexico.

Leeser said the declaration, which would likely last 30 days, will call on additional US government aid to provide shelters for the asylum seekers, as well as security for the whole community.

The city has already received $22.5 million from the feds.

“The reason we’re declaring a state of emergency is to make sure we can stand up and prepare for May 11,” Leeser said during a news conference Sunday. “To make sure we have public shelters, public housing… and two schools in place.”

This will be the second time in six months that an emergency has been declared in the beleaguered city, with recent local data showing more than 1,000 people a day are arriving at the border.

Officials predict 10,000 to 12,000 migrants will try to seek asylum at the border on May 11, with the volume expected to rise, Leeser said.

Leeser, who has long bemoaned the crisis at the US-Mexico border, added that El Paso would not be providing permanent homes to the migrants, and that the shelters would be temporary as the city helps asylum seekers reach their intended destination.

El Paso has made headlines over its busing program — with thousands of migrants sent to the north, including New York City, over the past year — much to the headache of Mayor Eric Adams, who condemned the program.

US Customs and Border Protection said that as of Saturday, more than 20,500 migrants were in custody along the southern border, with nearly 7,000 caught in the Rio Grande Valley sector alone.

There have been about 7,000 daily encounters in late April, with CBP officials warning that the number will rise in the coming weeks.

Along with the need for aid, Leeser called on the government to make serious changes to America’s immigration and border laws to curb the flood of migrants coming though the southern border.

“There’s no endgame to this, and we can’t continue as a city or as a country without the federal government changing federal laws.,” Leeser said. “The process right now is broken and it has not been fixed for many, many years.”

El Paso’s declaration comes as the border town of Brownsville, Texas, issued its own emergency, with Border Patrol Chief for the Rio Grande Valley Sector Gloria Chavez saying the city has seen over 15,000 Venezuelans arriving in the last eight days, CNN reports.

Like Leeser, Brownsville commissioner for District 1 Nurith Galonsky Pizana said the city will do its best to help the migrants transition through the town to reach their intended destination.

“These migrants who are making their way through Brownsville, they are not here to stay,” Galonsky Pizana said earlier this week. “They have a final destination outside of Brownsville, and we will manage this with due process as these individuals seek asylum.”

Although it seems counterintuitive for the migrants to try and cross the border illegally or seek asylum while Title 42 is still in place, it likely comes from a fear that it’ll be harder to get into the US once the policy expires.

With Title 42 gone, the US will revert to its decades-old protocols that were set up during mass migration in the US, including legal ramifications for people who repeatedly try to cross illegally.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/30/el-paso-to-issue-new-state-of-emergency-as-border-facilities-hit-capacity/

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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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Immigration Watch International (2)

Monday, May 1, 2023

El Paso to issue new state of emergency as border facilities hit capacity ahead of Title 42 expiration

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