The 2022 Version of 'The Caravans Are Coming

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9-18-2022

The 2022 version of 'the caravans are coming':
Ex-Republican aide says GOP is desperate for winning message.

In both 2018 and 2020, the Fox networks, Republicans and other conservative outlets claimed that millions of migrants were in a caravan headed
to the U.S. and Mexico border to "invade" the United States.

Former President Donald Trump even went so far as to send soldiers to the border, where most of them slept in their cars, and puttered around without much to do. Other states sent their state guard soldiers as well.

But after the election was over, the soldiers were called home and the "caravan" story was over. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) even admitted that the `video his campaign used was a lie, but defended it anyway.

The new ploy, according to former Republican Oversight Committee spokesperson-turned Democratic strategist, Kurt Bardella, is the use of state resources to ship refugees and migrants to random places around the country.

It began with a threat by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), but he's been unwilling to make good on the claim. Instead, DeSantis hired a plan to pick up people in Texas and ship them to the northeast, including a one-month-old baby sent to the home of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has been sending busses of migrants to the Fox News headquarters, including children. It was revealed that they were lied to about where they were going.

Legal analyst for The Nation, Elie Mystal explained that the fact that the people were lied to would give Attorney General Merrick Garland the right to launch kidnapping charges or human trafficking.

But it was Bardella who said that this is a ploy by Republicans to distract from other issues that Americans are actually concerned about, but they don't have winning solutions for.

Immigration isn't the top issue on any polls anywhere this election cycle. Yet, the conservatives are searching for a way that they can force it to be the issue using refugees and migrants as props.

"One of the things we need to realize here is that context in which this is happening, the political environment has become very toxic and poisonous for the Republicans heading into the midterms, because of the radical extreme stance on abortion, there assaults on women's rights in America," said Bardella.

"How convenient the as the political and start changing they start turning to the stunts. We've seen integrations of this before.
Remember last, time there were these migrant caravans? They're invading us, admittedly election ended that story went away from them.

This is just taking that playbook on steroids to a whole new level. That's what they're doing they don't want to spend any time talking about their efforts to try to mandate forced birth in this country."

This is more in their wheelhouse, so they're pivoting to figure out how they can make immigration an issue again.

The panel suggested that the reason DeSantis had to send migrants from Texas is that if he sent Venezuelans fleeing communism or the Cubans that continue to come into Florida it would actually hurt him with voters. His only option was to ship another state's immigrants off.

SHUT UP, TEMPLE

Since President Biden took office, nearly 4.9 million illegal aliens have crossed our borders.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fair-analysis-4-9-million-illegal-aliens-have-crossed-our-borders-since-president-biden-took-office-301606980.html

NYC Mayor Adams claims Texas Gov. Abbott 'refused to do any form of coordination' on migrant busing

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday claimed that his office attempted "coordination" with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on the busing of migrants to the Big Apple, but the Republican’s team "refused."

Adams told CNN’s "State of the Union" Abbott’s busing of migrants to New York City and elsewhere, as well as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flying two planes of illegal immigrants to the ritzy Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard, amounted to "a humanitarian crisis created by human hands."

"It is an all-hands-on-deck moment," Adams, a Democrat, criticizing the Republican governors. "We're all supposed to come together and coordinate. Coordination during a crisis is something that we must do together. And that's the federal government that is also the governor of the state of Texas, as well as the governor of the state of Florida. We should not be really treating other cities and municipalities in a manner that we're witnessing now."

Adams said his administration would continue to "follow the law" in guaranteeing asylum seekers in New York City the "right to shelter" before deflecting a question on President Biden or his administration’s culpability or inaction in adequately addressing the migrant crisis.

"You're struggling to process the 2,500 migrants sent to you from Texas. Meanwhile, the El Paso sector of the border sees an average of 1,700 migrants crossing every single day. A record 1.9 million migrants have been apprehended on the southwest border this fiscal year alone," CNN host Jake Tapper posed. "Even if you think what these governors are doing is horrific, it seems like you agree this is a crisis that needs more attention from the Biden administration?"

"I believe it's a crisis that needs more coordination from our country. You know, this is one country," Adams responded. "And that coordination should be not only on the federal level, the state level, but even cities to cities. We reached out to the El Paso mayor, as well as our team, attempted to reach out to Governor Abbott. They refused to do any form of coordination. They think the politics of treating people in a humane manner to cover up, I believe, what they have done around human rights. The erosion of it for these last few years is what they believe is the best way to handle it. I just disagree."

Adams accused Abbott and DeSantis of using the immigration crisis to deflect from their stances on abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Second Amendment protections.

"These are two governors who are hiding some of the actions that they've done around gun control," Adams said. "This is their way of covering up what many people have been really concerned about, the erosions of basic human rights. We're seeing crisis calls for coordination. We receive a minimum of six buses early this morning. Over 11,000 individuals, asylum-seeking migrants have come to the city already. It is time for us to coordinate this humanitarian crisis that our country is facing."

Fox News Digital reached out to Abbott's press office for comment.

Adams also stood by his campaign promise of ensuring New York City retains its "sanctuary" status.

"I think that they should come to any place in the country that they desire their pursuit of the American dream," he said. "We should do it in a coordinated method. We should make sure that those who are here are not breaking any laws. And we should make sure that we treat people with the humanitarian ways that we are used to treating people in this country."

Temple wrote:: 9-18-2022

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Legal analyst for The Nation, Elie Mystal explained that the fact that the people were lied to would give Attorney General Merrick Garland the right to launch kidnapping charges or human trafficking.

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8-31-2022

The facts behind the high number of migrants
arriving at the border under Biden.

Border Patrol, an agency within Customs and Border Protection (CBP), apprehends migrants who enter the U.S. illegally in between ports of entry.
The Office of Field Operations, another CBP agency, facilitates commercial, pedestrian and other forms of lawful traffic, while processing migrants who seek asylum at ports of entry, which is legal under U.S. law.

In fiscal year 2021, which included Mr. Biden's first eight full months in office, Border Patrol recorded 1.66 million arrests along the southern border, surpassing the previous all-time high of 1.64 million arrests set in CBP data show.

During the first 10 months of fiscal year 2022, Border Patrol agents along the Mexican border reported more
than 1.8 million apprehensions, a new record high that will likely surpass 2 million when fiscal year 2023 starts in October, according to the CBP figures.

In fiscal year 2021, 75,000 migrants were processed by the Office of Field Operations at ports of entry along the Mexican border. That number has climbed to 130,000 during the first 10 months of fiscal year 2022.

Another seismic demographic shift recorded under
Biden is the growing share of migrants from countries outside of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador entering U.S. border custody. Record numbers of Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Colombians, Haitians and other nationalities have been processed by U.S. border officials in the past year and half.

But many migrants have been quickly expelled
Since March 2020, U.S. border agents have used a public health law known as Title 42 to quickly expel hundreds of thousands of migrants to northern Mexico or directly to their home country without allowing them to request asylum.

In fiscal year 2021, 63%, or just over 1 million, of Border Patrol apprehensions resulted in migrants being expelled.
Nearly 50% of the 1.8 million Border Patrol arrests in the first 10 months of fiscal year 2022 turned into rapid expulsions to Mexico or migrants' home country.

Decisions to not expel migrants are based on different policy, logistical and diplomatic reasons. For example, as a policy matter, the Biden administration has not been expelling unaccompanied children, most of whom are instead housed in government shelters until they turn 18 or are placed with a sponsor in the U.S.

Other migrants are not expelled because of humanitarian reasons, such as an acute medical condition. And many border-crossers are not expelled because Mexico generally only accepts the return of its citizens and Central American migrants.

The U.S. cannot expel migrants to Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela because of frosty diplomatic relations with the authoritarian governments in those countries.

In 2000, there were approximately 3.7 million unlawful border crossings.
The latter tally is one the total border crossings in fiscal year 2022 are unlikely to surpass, even with the record levels of Border Patrol arrests.

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