A brand-new, sensational report from Anna Giaritelli from the Washington Examiner demonstrates once more that President Joe Biden’s new “get hard” talk about border control is a smokescreen. The president slowly instructed Border Patrol agents in the San Diego business to accept immigrants from all but six of the Eastern Hemisphere’s countries more than arrest them despite creating a border issue that has resulted in the arrival of around 10 million illegal immigrants since he took workplace.
While the memo instructs Border Patrol to send migrants from Russia, Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to ICE for deportation, “extra- global migrants” from the other Eastern Hemisphere countries may be processed with the promise of a timely “notice to appear” and released on individual recognizance, per the White House’s orders. In training, this means Border Patrol is instructed to develop catch- and- launch- without- a- court- date for migrants who are, by definition, improper immigrants.
Migrants from the Americas have been given the catch and release privilege from the Biden administration for years, with the White House’s realistic defense that these immigrants who trudge by foot are indigenous Guatemalans with genuine fears of cultural persecution or Nicaraguan women with genuine fears of femicide. Former President Donald Trump had once secured a” safe third country” agreement with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador that would have required these safe third countries to grant asylum to legitimate refugees who arrived at them as their first safe nation since their escaping from their home country. However, Biden brokered these safe agreements with third countries.
If a hypothetical Honduran refugee attempted to shop for American asylum at our southern border, she would have had to apply for asylum under Trump’s policy. By putting an end to these agreements, Biden sparked the border influx and gave asylum seekers who traveled through the Americas a veneer of legal protection.
Migrants from the Eastern Hemisphere have zero such justification. And by definition, plenty, if not most, of these asylum applicants are criminals, potentially multiple times over.
For example, of the 24, 376 Chinese nationals that Border Patrol has recorded as crossing the southern border in the first five months of fiscal 2024, 24, 214 of them entered between official ports of entry, a crime under U. S. law. While those who do illegally enter the United States can present themselves to authorities to apply for asylum, being “extra- hemispheric” often wo n’t provide” good cause for their illegal entry or presence” ( the legal protection under the United Nations’s 1951 Refugee Convention ) for doing so. Even a migrant fleeing legitimate persecution across the Atlantic Ocean frequently has little reason to skip the lengthy lines at legal ports of entry and instead enter the United States illegally. Contrary to the Northern Triangle migrant.
Take, for instance, this article from the Washington Post about the recent wave of migrants from Mauritania’s West African theocracy. The real story is how almost all of this diaspora has arrived in the United States illegally, despite the newspaper’s focus on the kindness of a Mauritanian refugee from Cincinnati named Oumar Ball, who provides food and shelter to fellow countrymen coming here.
Ball may have had a legitimate asylum claim at first because his brother was murdered in Mauritania on the ostensible basis of his race ( the” white moors” leading the country’s Arab government do discriminate against black Mauritanians like Ball ). However, Ball illegally entered the United States with a tourist visa after fleeing south to the Democratic Republic of Congo despite his attempts to seek asylum. That entrance is arguably the site of visa fraud. The following Mauritanians are likely to violate the law in a variety of ways.
” Like new arrivals from other corners of the world, Mauritanians have decided they ca n’t afford to wait for U. S. visas”, the Post reports. ” Instead they are flying to Turkey, and then on to Brazil or Colombia. They then travel through Central America and Mexico, taking buses there to reach the southern U.S. border.
From there, Mauritanians cross the border between legitimate ports of entry, which by definition is a crime, one that is not likely to be justified by even a legitimate fear of persecution from any country, but especially a fear about a nation crossing the globe. This is what the majority of the migrants entering the nation do.
Border Patrol recorded nearly 190,000 migrants crossing the country from the southern border in February of this year. A staggering 140, 664 entered illegally between a port of entry. The population of Mauritanians is a tiny but rapidly expanding microcosm of the crisis: from the end of 2022 to the middle of 2023, the population increased by 750 %, and the total immigration increased by 2,800 %, from 2022 to 2023.
A cynic would say this is all intentional. The majority of migrants are now from non-Mexican, non-Northern Triangle countries, whereas the majority of migrants from Mexico were mostly from the Northern Triangle just five years ago. Asylum shoppers who have false claims and a few thousand dollars on flights believe they can travel through several nations to enter the United States illegally and avoid being deported. Alas, they are mostly correct.
