Migrant arrivals at southern border soared to 22-year high in March

Migrant arrivals at southern border soared to 22-year high in March
LUKE BARR and STEPHANIE GUERILUS , ABC News
Sat, April 16, 2022, 6:25 PM

Customs and Border Protection encountered its third-highest number of migrants ever entering the U.S. in March, also a 22-year high.

CBP encountered 221,303 migrants along the southwest border in March, federal court filings showed Friday. The most recent peak the agency encountered was over 200,000 migrants in July 2021.

Under Title 42, officials expelled 109,549 migrants and there were 12,070 expulsions under the Title 8 authority, court records show.

The largest known tally of migrants arrested at the border was 220,063 in March 2000, according to data.

The figures were revealed as part of a lawsuit that has been filed by states against the Biden administration, which are seeking to halt Title 42 from being phased out. Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that they would rescind the Trump-era policy by late May.

"Once the Title 42 Order is no longer in place, DHS will process individuals encountered at the border pursuant to Title 8, which is the standard procedure we use to place individuals in removal proceedings," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement on April 1.

"Nonetheless, we know that smugglers will spread misinformation to take advantage of vulnerable migrants. Let me be clear: those unable to establish a legal basis to remain in the United States will be removed," he added.

The policy was enforced at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic by former President Donald Trump and restricted migrants from coming into the country under the guise of a health emergency. It allowed agents to quickly expel migrants without the benefit of asylum interviews.

The Biden administration is determined to move forward with lifting restrictions despite the acknowledgment that it could lead to a spike in crossings.

The Biden administration stated it was no longer necessary to control COVID-19. In response, 18 states filed suit on Thursday in in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Louisiana.

"This suit challenges an imminent, man-made, self-inflicted calamity: the abrupt elimination of the only safety valve preventing this Administration's disastrous border policies from devolving into unmitigated chaos and catastrophe," the complaint read.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sent two charter buses of migrants to Washington -- a move called a stunt by White House officials.

"Leaders in Congress have no idea about the chaos they have caused by the open-border policies and they refuse to come down and see firsthand and talk to the people who are really there just dropping bombs of illegal immigrants from countries across the entire globe, leaving those local communities to have to grapple with it," Abbott told reporters this week.

Quote :

    The Biden administration is determined to move forward with lifting restrictions despite the acknowledgment that it could lead to a spike in crossings.

Sure .. They don't even pretend to give a shit.. There's no question about it .. Come one come all .. The more the merrier

Quote :

The Biden administration stated it was no longer necessary to control COVID-19

Just like that, huh .. What's changed? People still getting covid.. Vaccinated or not .. So millions more to be pouring in, unvaccinated, untested.. Suddenly vaccinations are of no importance.. This admin has deemed covid to be "unnecessary to control" .. Kinda like sayin' it's ok to get OUT of control ..so it's no big deal now .. So what of all the mask, vaccine, testing mandates that caused doctors, nurses, cops, truckers, etc.. to lose their jobs over it? .. No big deal either i guess .. Will they get their jobs back? The uneducated, unskilled migrants that can't read, write, or speak English can't replace them ..WTF

Quote :

"This suit challenges an imminent, man-made, self-inflicted calamity: the abrupt elimination of the only safety valve preventing this Administration's disastrous border policies from devolving into unmitigated chaos and catastrophe," the complaint read.

The fuck with all that.. Can't see it from the white house or the gated mansions where they live in the posh neighborhoods with birds chirping ..can't even see any neighbors

Now they're gonna give all the migrants free smart phones, which is of no use without service so give them that too .
Unlimited talk, text, and data .. What else do they need? .. Free rent, free food, free medical ..  and here i am tryin' to keep the brown man down by complaing about doing my part to help pay for it, being a white supremacist

So i pull into Jack in the Box this morning to grab a breakfast sandwich... I give my order, turn the corner to drive up to the window and this lady is standing in the drive-thru lane. She's ranting on and on about how the sign says the dining room is open at 5am but the front doors are locked. The truck at the window drives off, she walks up to the window and tries to order something. They won't serve her because she isn't in a car and she asks why the front doors are locked if the dining room opens at 5.

The lady working the window says "We can't open them because we're short staffed".

Short staffed? Thousands of immigrants are pouring in every day and we can't get any of them to work at a Jack in the Box? Isn't that why they're here, to find work? What the hell is going on here?

Largest ever migrant caravan begins walk across entire length of Mexico to U.S. border
KAREN TOWNSEND Jun 05, 2022 3:31 PM ET


AP Photo/Marco Ugarte

The largest-ever migrant caravan is beginning its trek to the US-Mexico border. The estimated number of migrants in the caravan ranges from about 11,000 to 15,000. Most of them are women and children. The news of the caravan comes at a particularly awkward time for the Biden administration. Biden’s Summit of the Americas is supposed to begin Monday in Los Angeles.

As often happens with the Biden administration, details about the Summit are murky. As of the middle of last week, the leaders who will attend has not been confirmed. The caravan plans to leave Tapachula, a city on the Mexico-Guatemala border, on Monday, the same day the Summit of the Americas is set to begin. Other caravans have left from Tapachula in the past but this one is said to be the largest one ever. The migrants in the caravan aren’t just from Central America, they are from countries around the world, from as far away as Africa and India.

“This is the largest mass human migration I have seen in at least the past 10 years,” said Luís Villagrán, an organizer of the caravan and director of the non-profit Center for Human Dignification.

The largest number of migrants in the caravan come from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua – three countries whose authoritarian rulers Joe Biden has conspicuously refused to invite to the summit. But there are also Haitians, Salvadorans, Hondurans, Guatemalans and even citizens of India, Bangladesh, and several African countries.

Earlier this month, the Mexican National Migration Institute (INM), wrote to Villagrán, expressing sympathy for the caravan’s members and pledging to help the most vulnerable among them. The letter also acknowledges that the caravan is a result of the stunning tsunami of migration from nearly every country in the Americas to the United States in the past few years, attributing this migration to elevated rates of violence and economic instability in the continent.

The response by the INM is a first from the Mexican government toward organizers of migrant caravans. Villagran said that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may be trying to look like a humanitarian ahead of the Sumit of the Americas. It may not be a signal that the Mexican authorities are shifting to a more responsive mode in dealing with migrants. Villagran acknowledges, “Immigration is used as a political tool.” AMLO may be hoping to boost his image as the Summit begins.

Frustrated Mexican officials and law enforcement are reported to be turning to more violent responses to the influx of migrants. Nonetheless, the caravan continues to organize and Villagran demands that the migrants receive humanitarian visas from the Mexican government. Humanitarian visas will allow migrants to cross through checkpoints along the way in Mexico.

In Tapachula, the National Guard is routinely used to corral, detain, and teargas unruly groups of migrants in front of the city’s INM office, where people often wait for weeks or months for the humanitarian visa needed to leave the city.

On Tuesday, thousands gathered at Tapachula’s city center to write their names on a list that Villagrán would submit to INM to secure visas for the group. At one point, an altercation broke out as migrants worried others would get to the list before them, and they would be left behind.

Before they depart, Villagrán and the migrants are demanding humanitarian visas be given immediately, so the group can pass through migration checkpoints without being arrested or attacked by Mexican National Guard, as happened in April. Anyone attempting to cross through one of the checkpoints without a visa is sent back to Tapachula and forced to wait months for papers that may never come.

Over the past three months, migrants have poured into Tapachula’s parks and shelters at twice or three times the previous rate. Migrant shelters that once housed no more than 400 people are now accommodating nearly 2,000. Bathrooms overflow, food dwindles until it is just one scoop of beans, and migrants sleep in the hallways, or on spread out sweatshirts in the jungle.

So, while leaders from Latin countries arrive in Los Angeles to discuss problems facing their countries and their relationship with each other, a massive caravan is beginning to walk the length of Mexico en route to the US border. The Biden administration originally stated that only “democratically-elected leaders” would be invited to the Summit. That would exclude Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. This caused some heads of state like AMLO to threaten a boycott. This diplomatic crisis (everything is a crisis with this administration) continues right up to the start of the Summit. As I said above, there has still not been a list of participants released. You may remember that Jill Biden was sent to smooth ruffled feathers and encourage the leadership in some of the region to attend the Summit. Let’s just say she didn’t exactly score a victory in her mission. Will Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Honduras, and Guatemala, as well as others, go ahead and attend the Summit or will they make good on their threats of a boycott?

Biden’s border crisis continues to be a magnet to people around the world. We’ll see if the largest migrant caravan makes its way to the US border. Sometimes a caravan is reported to be organizing and then nothing much happens. We’ll soon know if this is one of those times or if thousands of migrants begin to walk the length of Mexico in hopes of being allowed into the United States.

The world's excess population is NOT Americas problem!

Well on the bright side we will have the best manicured lawns in the whole wide world