By Anthony R. Scott
EDITOR’S NOTE: This opinion piece is the second and final in a series of two
NBC News, not a conservative source, in an article dated March 16, 2021, reported that the surge has created a backlog in Border Patrol stations, with more than 4,200 children in custody and 2,943 of those children being held over the 72-hour legal limit.
The new figures are a record high, topping last week, when there were roughly 3,000 children in Border Patrol custody, 1,400 of whom were being held over the 72-hour limit. FEMA, the federal emergency management agency, is quickly building “decompression centers” in Dallas and Midland, Texas to allow Health and Human Services, the agency equipped to care for children before they are placed with sponsors, to take more children out of border patrol custody.
In April 2022, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when testifying before congress did not outright lie but avoided saying that all an immigrant has to say when encountered by a U.S. Border Patrol agent is “I’m seeking asylum!” They do not petition for asylum. Instead, they are subsequently provided a court date in the distant future and released into the interior of the United States. It should be noted that less than 1% of these immigrants appear for their scheduled hearing.
President Biden and Vice President Harris are making life very difficult across the nation by their policy of releasing thousands of immigrants a day into the United States. They are placing a strain on the economy of all border states by straining their hospitals and related medical resources, educational resources, social service resources, housing resources, policing resources, and food bank resources.
During his first year in office, President Biden has caused more destruction to the America economy than any other President in the history of this country. He’s increased economic inflation, fuel prices across the board, cost of living, cost of groceries, cost of health care and unemployment. Further, President Biden has negatively impacted the nation by decreasing the prestige of the United States around the world, given billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment to our enemies, abandoned Americans in Afghanistan, releasing thousands of immigrants into the country daily on our southern border, increased the security risk with the number of immigrants entering the U.S. through our southern border.
Irish, Indian and African doctors, German engineers and many others among those seeking legal entry into this country, who want to immigrate to the U.S., must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern border are welcomed by the socialist liberal Democrats of the Biden/Harris Administration.
Additionally, $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health and welfare care for immigrants is not? Where are our priorities?
The immigration restrictionist think tank uncovered several other eye-popping numbers in the latest Current Population Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Two million: The number by which the U.S foreign born population grew in the first 16 months of Biden’s presidency, a rate twice that of the native population.
66%: The percentage of the new immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally, numbering 1.35 million.
11.6 million: The total number of illegal immigrants living in America in April, per CIS’ estimate.
14.3%: The ratio of the U.S. population born abroad, unseen in 112 years.
The Biden Factor
After rolling back some of former President Trump’s hardline immigration policies, Biden has overseen an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration. The number of reported migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border reached 234,088 in April, the most in the history of the Department of Homeland Security.
Weeks ago, a federal judge blocked the Biden administration from rescinding Title 42, a policy that allows most migrants to be turned away at the border on public health grounds. But the Biden administration, under pressure from progressive activists, has pledged to appeal the ruling.
In the meantime, the Border Patrol has been preparing for as many as 8,000 daily migrant encounters at the southern border, more than double the daily number of the 2019 surge under Trump.
Our government can not sustain the spending presently occurring to house, feed, educate and provide medical services to these illegal immigrants. The faucet has to be turned off and the sooner the better.
In order for this situation at our southern border to be addressed, there must be a red wave in November to take back the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This is necessary in order to bring a modicum of sanity to our federal government and fiscal irresponsibility.
Should the conservatives accomplish this, then the House and Senate can immediately take measures to turn off the flow of funds to the Biden/Harris Administration thereby effectively putting the brakes on the situation at the southern border. The House and Senate can reinstate the construction of the border wall thereby significantly reducing immigrants entering the U.S.
Further, the House and Senate can force the Biden/ Harris Administration to renegotiate the “Wait In Mexico” agreement and turn off the flow of funds to those countries who will not assist in controlling the flow of their residents illegally into the United States.
Anthony R. Scott is a retired police chief and Navy veteran who spent 45 years in law enforcement before retiring to Beaufort County.
