Important Takeaways:
- ‘People will die’: Biden’s border order will worsen migrants’ risks, experts say
- El Paso mayor says order ‘will save lives’ but advocates express concern over heat and exploitation by criminals
- The aggressive new election-year policy triggers a block on most asylum claims once the number of people crossing the border without authorization exceeds a certain level
- The mayor of El Paso, Texas, Democrat Oscar Leeser, said the order “will save lives, keep people from dying in the desert, jumping over the walls and falling, as well as keep them from being exploited”
- Dora Rodriguez, executive director of Salvavision, a group that provides aid to migrants on both sides of the border, said “People will die. Because they will not stop crossing”
- Experts and human rights advocates in El Paso are concerned that the unintended consequences of Biden’s executive action may be to worsen the risks for asylum seekers, while not deterring them from taking those risks
- And they warned that more obstacles in the asylum process will increase exploitation by criminals.
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Important Takeaways:
- Tens of thousands of migrants from countries including China and Venezuela could be exempt from the Biden administration’s ‘tough’ new border restrictions — because their home countries refuse to accept them back.
- Over 150,000 people from those two nations alone have illegally crossed into the US so far in 2024, and hundreds more arrive daily
- Despite new orders to stop processing asylum claims once migrant encounters hit 2,500 per day for seven consecutive days, instructions from the Department of Homeland Security to border agents provide exceptions.
- ‘Section 240 removal’ means “they’re released,” into the US, a Border Patrol source told The Post — explaining such migrants will be given a court date and allowed to pursue asylum, which typically take years to resolve
- “They [migrants who can’t be deported] are not included in that 2,500 number, the language was ambiguous for a reason.”
- It doesn’t appear that migrant crossings have been affected by Biden’s new executive order and border agents have expressed doubt that it will have any real impact on the continued crisis.
- “That’s like trying to plug the leak on the titanic with chewing gum. It’s way too little too late. He’s trying to act tough on the border but we know he’s been the most open border administration ever”
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Important Takeaways:
- A new, 2,000-person migrant caravan is making its way north to the US border — and is expected to reach El Paso, Texas, in just the next few days.
- The group proclaimed in Spanish, “We are not criminals, we are international workers.”
- “El Paso has shown itself to be very able to gear up when the surge comes and provide a safe and orderly way for those who have been permitted to come in to find a secure situation and continue on their paths,” he said, according to Border Report
- The Texas National Guard has deployed two planes carrying 200 members of the Tactical Border Force to El Paso
- Their deployment comes just days after a group of migrants stormed the border in El Paso, tearing down concertina wire and trampling over Border Patrol agents in their way.
- The charges the migrants face include inciting a riot, damage of property of over $2,500 and assault on members of the Guard
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Important Takeaways:
- Border encounters reach nearly 2.5 million for 2023, second straight record-setting year for illegal immigration under Biden
- Official numbers totaled 269,735 encounters for September 2023, a new monthly record, which sets fiscal year 2023 at a record-setting 2,475,669.
- Previous reports that had estimated approximately 260,000 people crossing the border in September 2023 proved to be true. This exceeded the previous monthly record set under Biden in December 2022 at just over 250,000.
- At the time, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed the president had taken “historic action” to control illegal immigration, the Washington Examiner reported.
- Days later, the administration announced its plans to resume building the U.S.-Mexico border wall started under President Trump, despite Biden claiming that walls don’t work.
- According to the Washington Examiner, a total of 3.2 million non-U.S. citizens attempted to enter the country illegally in fiscal year 2023.
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Important Takeaways:
- Two Million Migrants Apprehended at Southwest Border for 2nd Straight Year
- In September, the last month of the fiscal year, Border Patrol agents apprehended just over 218,000 migrants, unofficial reports revealed. This brought the total for the year to approximately 2,045,000 migrant apprehensions. In addition, Border Patrol officials classified an additional 664,000 migrants as known got-aways.
- In contrast, during President Donald Trump’s last full fiscal year in office, agents apprehended only 400,651. During the last two months alone, agents apprehended 399,000 migrants.
- The two million migrant apprehensions do not include migrants who entered the country through the CBP One app and other immigration blanket parole programs not authorized by Congress.
- Following the end of Title 42 on May 11, the Biden administration relished in a brief decline in migrant apprehensions along the border. In June, agents apprehended 99,543 migrants.
- Since the low point in June, apprehensions jumped approximately 119 percent to September’s 218,000.
- The El Paso Sector finished the year in first place with the apprehension of more than 426,000 migrants. Del Rio finished the year in second place with the arrest of nearly 400,000 migrants. The Tucson, Rio Grande Valley, and San Diego Sectors rounded out the top five with 374,000, 338,000, and 230,000 respectively.
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