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Title 42 Was Never Going To Fix Illegal Immigration
Only an actual border can stop illegal immigration — preferably a border with a really high wall.
Title 42 Was Never Going To Fix Illegal Immigration
In the end, the only thing that will end the ongoing border crisis is to fix our asylum and immigration laws.
thefederalist.com
Whatever your view of immigration, there can be no doubt that the Biden administration’s border policies have been an abject failure. This is especially true of Title 42, the pandemic-era public health order that for the last three years, under both the Trump and Biden administrations, allowed border officials to expel illegal immigrants quickly back to Mexico.
Title 42 came to an end on Thursday when the Covid public health emergency officially ended, and its ending has coincided with what can only be described as absolute chaos along the U.S.-Mexico border this past week.
Border Patrol agents are now arresting more than 10,000 illegal immigrants every day. If you have no context for that figure, consider that in March 2019, at the onset of the last border crisis, Border Patrol was arresting 4,000 illegal immigrants a day. At the time, President Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said, “I know that 1,000 [apprehensions] overwhelms the system and I cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 a day looks like.”
What 10,000 a day looks like is a humanitarian catastrophe. Put bluntly, Border Patrol has nowhere to put these people. If it keeps up for much longer, we’ll see a string of what amount to massive migrant camps appear across south Texas — think of the encampment of 15,000 Haitians under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, in September 2021, multiplied many times over all up and down the border.
What 10,000 a day means is that our southwest border is collapsing. The Texas cities of Laredo, El Paso, and Brownsville have issued emergency declarations, as has New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who still refuses...
Now that Title 42 is finally ending, we see the federal government’s immigration bureaucracy grinding into action once again to manage a situation our defective laws cannot handle. Whatever the outcome of Biden’s plan, it amounts to government by administrative fiat, demonstrating the ongoing corruption of the rule of law in America and the triumph of the administrative state.
In the end, the only thing that will end the ongoing border crisis is to fix our asylum and immigration laws so they can’t be exploited by illegal immigrants making bogus asylum claims. Programs like Title 42, or even the Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico policy, are stop-gaps at best. To secure the border, we’re going to need laws that mandate a secure border, which means closing the asylum loopholes, immediately deporting those who cross illegally, and building a really high wall.
Commentary:
The Today Show just reported 60,000 in the last three days. There was no discussion of whether this was a temporary bump due to the lifting of Title 42 or the new normal. That's 20,000 a day or 7.3 million a year. My guess is that it will continue to ramp up. Why not get the full effects of Cloward Piven theory?
We have laws, the laws are fine. All we need is those in charge is to follow and enforce them. Creating new laws won’t do a damn thing if they won’t follow the laws already on the books.
It doesn’t make any difference. The people living in this country have become to passive to stop the invasion of their country. Citizens living here deserve what is happening to their country and their children and grandchildren are going to hate them for it.
Mayorkas has told us he has “Operational Control” of the boarder. Believe him. This is his program. Executed to a tee.
Every history book from now until our nation is no longer known will truthfully paint Joe Biden and his Administration as the President who sold out the country and surrendered America’s border.