15 May 2023
According to Fox News, migrants from 170 countries have crossed our borders seeking asylum. Court dates currently being assigned to those admitted are running 4-7 years out! One migrant in Brownsville was told to appear in 2027 last week. Those so admitted are released with no means of tracking their whereabouts, making one wonder what the percentage is that simply fade away.
Last week an Afghan on the Terrorist Watch List was apprehended after crossing the border into California. Rep. Mike Waltz (FL) an ex-Green Beret, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee stated that thousands of Taliban fighters were released from Bagram Air Base when we pulled out. Where have they all gone!?
When asked by the press today how is the border going?, Biden said, "Much better than you all expected." He was then asked if he had plans to go to the border, to which he replied, "Not in the near term, no. It would just be disruptive, nothing else."
Fox News screen shots this date:
US Rep. Tony Gonzales, from El Paso district revealed that El Paso CBP is currently holding more than 6,000 illegal aliens, one facility with a capacity of 1000 is holding 3000, another w/capacity of 90 currently holding 400. More than 4200 illegals were released in El Paso last week.
Homeland Security Chief Warns Border Could Still See Surge After Title 42 End
By Jack Phillips
May 14, 2023Updated: May 15, 2023
U.S. Border Patrol agents have seen a 50 percent drop in the number of border crossers since the pandemic-era immigration policy known as Title 42 expired at midnight on May 11, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in an interview.
“Over the past two days, the United States Border Patrol has experienced a 50 percent drop in the number of encounters versus what we were experiencing earlier in the week before Title 42 ended at midnight on Thursday,” Mayorkas told CNN’s “State of the Union” program on May 14. “It is still early. We are in day three. But we have been planning for this transition for months and months.”
However, amid such claims from Mayorkas and other Biden administration officials, Republicans described what’s unfolding at the border as catastrophic. On May 11, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News that Mayorkas “is lying” about the “chaos and catastrophic results at the border.”
There have been widespread bipartisan concerns that ending Title 42, which has been in effect for the past three years, would spur a significant increase in illegal immigration amid reports that large groups of people are heading from Mexico and Central America to the U.S. border. Multiple Texas counties along the border have also declared emergencies over the anticipated spike in illegal immigration.
Mayorkas said U.S. Border Patrol agents had about 6,300 encounters with border-crossers on May 12 and another 4,200 on May 13. That’s compared with more than 10,000 per day shortly before Title 42’s expiration.
Mayorkas still warned that a surge across the border is still possible.
“It is too early,” he cautioned on May 14.
“We have not only a security imperative but a humanitarian responsibility to cut those smugglers out. We have an obligation to deliver consequences at our border, to not only manage our border but to cut the smugglers out.”
Republicans have criticized Mayorkas and President Joe Biden for the increase in illegal immigration during the current administration. House Republicans recently approved what Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) termed “the strongest border security bill this country has ever seen,” while noting that Republicans “are seeing a very different record from President Biden.”
Even as the legislation neared its final form on May 10, it had to be amended to appease concerns from the House Freedom Caucus and other lawmakers. The 213-page bill represents a compromise in the Republican conference between centrist lawmakers, who wanted to focus on beefing up border enforcement, and conservatives, who want to see drastic changes to U.S. asylum and immigration law.
Epoch Times Photo
Migrants wait in line to enter the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, on May 11, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
The package would return to many of the same policies pursued by former President Donald Trump, such as building walls along the border. It would also restrict asylum by requiring illegal aliens to cross legally, pay a $50 fee, and meet more stringent requirements to show in initial interviews that they have a credible fear of persecution in their home country. Title 42, which expired on May 11, was initially implemented during the Trump administration despite numerous legal challenges.
The bill would also scrap a program that allowed U.S. officials to accept or quickly turn away some people from Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua. The program is a cornerstone of Biden’s immigration efforts, allowing migrants from those countries to apply to come to the United States for two years legally and work.
“The bill that we’re getting, I think, is a good starting point,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said. “It, by itself, would not get 60 votes to get out of here.”
He means that the bill likely won’t pass the Democrat-controlled Senate. Biden has warned that he’ll veto the measure if it comes to his desk.
Also, Tillis joined with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), who accepts committee assignments from Democrats, to push a proposal that would resurrect the government’s power to quickly expel illegal immigrants without processing their asylum claims for another two years.
A Texas National Guard soldier directs migrants during a dust storm at a makeshift camp located between the Rio Grande and the U.S.–Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, on May 10, 2023. (John Moore/Getty Images)
“It’s clear that the Biden administration, while it had two years to prepare for the end of Title 42, failed to do so,” Sinema told reporters last week. “And in the last several weeks, I’ve had the unfortunate job of communicating on a daily basis, sometimes even hourly basis, with the sheriffs, the Border Patrol agents, mayors, and even the governor of Arizona to figure out how we can prepare to deal with this crisis.”
Mayorkas derided the Republican-backed bill on May 14 and, without providing evidence, said it would “dismantle” the U.S. immigration system.
“We are in need of desperately as a country is immigration reform, to fix the system, not to dismantle it, which is what this proposal really provides,” Mayorkas said.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/homeland-security-chief-warns-border-could-still-see-surge-after-title-42-end_5264279.html?src_src=Morningbrief&src_cmp=mb-2023-05-15&est=HR9KQ9550mU%2BcetSpLyBiBWpZk%2BDqKsN%2FZpRqE%2BwGPmuM9A9nD8nNzom
According to Fox News, migrants from 170 countries have crossed our borders seeking asylum. Court dates currently being assigned to those admitted are running 4-7 years out! One migrant in Brownsville was told to appear in 2027 last week. Those so admitted are released with no means of tracking their whereabouts, making one wonder what the percentage is that simply fade away.
Last week an Afghan on the Terrorist Watch List was apprehended after crossing the border into California. Rep. Mike Waltz (FL) an ex-Green Beret, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee stated that thousands of Taliban fighters were released from Bagram Air Base when we pulled out. Where have they all gone!?
When asked by the press today how is the border going?, Biden said, "Much better than you all expected." He was then asked if he had plans to go to the border, to which he replied, "Not in the near term, no. It would just be disruptive, nothing else."
Fox News screen shots this date:
US Rep. Tony Gonzales, from El Paso district revealed that El Paso CBP is currently holding more than 6,000 illegal aliens, one facility with a capacity of 1000 is holding 3000, another w/capacity of 90 currently holding 400. More than 4200 illegals were released in El Paso last week.
Homeland Security Chief Warns Border Could Still See Surge After Title 42 End
By Jack Phillips
May 14, 2023Updated: May 15, 2023
U.S. Border Patrol agents have seen a 50 percent drop in the number of border crossers since the pandemic-era immigration policy known as Title 42 expired at midnight on May 11, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in an interview.
“Over the past two days, the United States Border Patrol has experienced a 50 percent drop in the number of encounters versus what we were experiencing earlier in the week before Title 42 ended at midnight on Thursday,” Mayorkas told CNN’s “State of the Union” program on May 14. “It is still early. We are in day three. But we have been planning for this transition for months and months.”
However, amid such claims from Mayorkas and other Biden administration officials, Republicans described what’s unfolding at the border as catastrophic. On May 11, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News that Mayorkas “is lying” about the “chaos and catastrophic results at the border.”
There have been widespread bipartisan concerns that ending Title 42, which has been in effect for the past three years, would spur a significant increase in illegal immigration amid reports that large groups of people are heading from Mexico and Central America to the U.S. border. Multiple Texas counties along the border have also declared emergencies over the anticipated spike in illegal immigration.
Mayorkas said U.S. Border Patrol agents had about 6,300 encounters with border-crossers on May 12 and another 4,200 on May 13. That’s compared with more than 10,000 per day shortly before Title 42’s expiration.
Mayorkas still warned that a surge across the border is still possible.
“It is too early,” he cautioned on May 14.
“We have not only a security imperative but a humanitarian responsibility to cut those smugglers out. We have an obligation to deliver consequences at our border, to not only manage our border but to cut the smugglers out.”
Republicans have criticized Mayorkas and President Joe Biden for the increase in illegal immigration during the current administration. House Republicans recently approved what Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) termed “the strongest border security bill this country has ever seen,” while noting that Republicans “are seeing a very different record from President Biden.”
Even as the legislation neared its final form on May 10, it had to be amended to appease concerns from the House Freedom Caucus and other lawmakers. The 213-page bill represents a compromise in the Republican conference between centrist lawmakers, who wanted to focus on beefing up border enforcement, and conservatives, who want to see drastic changes to U.S. asylum and immigration law.
Epoch Times Photo
Migrants wait in line to enter the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, on May 11, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
The package would return to many of the same policies pursued by former President Donald Trump, such as building walls along the border. It would also restrict asylum by requiring illegal aliens to cross legally, pay a $50 fee, and meet more stringent requirements to show in initial interviews that they have a credible fear of persecution in their home country. Title 42, which expired on May 11, was initially implemented during the Trump administration despite numerous legal challenges.
The bill would also scrap a program that allowed U.S. officials to accept or quickly turn away some people from Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua. The program is a cornerstone of Biden’s immigration efforts, allowing migrants from those countries to apply to come to the United States for two years legally and work.
“The bill that we’re getting, I think, is a good starting point,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said. “It, by itself, would not get 60 votes to get out of here.”
He means that the bill likely won’t pass the Democrat-controlled Senate. Biden has warned that he’ll veto the measure if it comes to his desk.
Also, Tillis joined with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), who accepts committee assignments from Democrats, to push a proposal that would resurrect the government’s power to quickly expel illegal immigrants without processing their asylum claims for another two years.
A Texas National Guard soldier directs migrants during a dust storm at a makeshift camp located between the Rio Grande and the U.S.–Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, on May 10, 2023. (John Moore/Getty Images)
“It’s clear that the Biden administration, while it had two years to prepare for the end of Title 42, failed to do so,” Sinema told reporters last week. “And in the last several weeks, I’ve had the unfortunate job of communicating on a daily basis, sometimes even hourly basis, with the sheriffs, the Border Patrol agents, mayors, and even the governor of Arizona to figure out how we can prepare to deal with this crisis.”
Mayorkas derided the Republican-backed bill on May 14 and, without providing evidence, said it would “dismantle” the U.S. immigration system.
“We are in need of desperately as a country is immigration reform, to fix the system, not to dismantle it, which is what this proposal really provides,” Mayorkas said.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/homeland-security-chief-warns-border-could-still-see-surge-after-title-42-end_5264279.html?src_src=Morningbrief&src_cmp=mb-2023-05-15&est=HR9KQ9550mU%2BcetSpLyBiBWpZk%2BDqKsN%2FZpRqE%2BwGPmuM9A9nD8nNzom
