Humanitarian Disaster Brewing at the Border

Michael Armstrong — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:49:16 +0000

9,000 unaccompanied alien children projected for February — traditionally a low-travel month.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the number of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) apprehended by CBP at the Southwest border in February is projected to increase by 50 percent compared to January, to 9,000. February is traditionally one of the lowest travel months for illegal entrants, and has the fewest days. That projection reveals that there is a new humanitarian disaster brewing — one that could scuttle President Biden’s immigration plans.

By way of comparison, UAC apprehensions at the Southwest border totaled just 1,910 in February 2017 — the month after the inauguration that year. That was likely attributable to what I termed the “Trump effect”. Simply put, at the beginning of his term, the 45th president’s campaign rhetoric dissuaded would-be entrants.

Now, on the other hand, CBP is dealing with the consequences of what my colleague Todd Bensman has deemed the “Biden effect”. Most of the president’s immigration actions and policies are direct rebukes of his predecessor’s, and have had the opposite response. Amnesty is on the president’s menu, and not surprisingly, would-be applicants are lining up on the nation’s doorstep.

The month of February was the harbinger of the humanitarian disaster at the border that played out in FY 2019.

That year, CBP recorded almost one million “encounters” of illegal aliens along the line with Mexico. In February 2019, UAC apprehensions jumped 33.5 percent (to 6,817) from the month before. By the end of FY 2019, there were just over 76,000 UACs apprehended by the Border Patrol at the Southwest border.

Needless to say, a 50-percent increase is greater than a 33.5-percent one, and 9,000 is 32 percent higher than 6,817. The pandemic has shrunk shelter space for those UACs, as I explained on February 24. As a consequence, the Biden administration is scrambling to find room to house them, going so far as to reopen a detention facility at Carrizo Springs, Texas, that had been opened and then closed under the Trump administration.

The president’s handling of the issue has been unpopular to say the least. Note that during that earlier FY 2019 crisis, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) (AOC) complained that: “The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are — they are concentration camps”.

Here’s AOC’s Tweet in response to the Biden’s administration’s reopening of the Carrizo Springs facility:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC

This is not okay, never has been okay, never will be okay – no matter the administration or party.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost

First migrant facility for children opens under Biden wapo.st/3upDNPq

At least she’s consistent.

According to Rasmussen Reports’ polling for the week ended February 18: “55% of Likely U.S. Voters feel the government is already doing too little to reduce illegal border crossings and visitor overstays.” Significantly, 63 percent of those unaffiliated with either party — crucial swing voters in mid-term elections — agree.

That was more than a week ago. I doubt that the new CBP projection of 9,000 UACs arriving in February is going to push more voters into the “government is doing too much to reduce illegal border crossings” (as per Rasmussen, 18 percent of likely voters) category.

The day before President Biden took the oath of office, I predicted that a surge of migrants at the border could doom his amnesty plans. I am sticking with my assessment. And that surge is already building, in the year’s shortest month, and one that usually does not see a lot of Southwest border encounters by CBP.

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ICE deports more than 185k illegal aliens, 4.2k gang members in 2020

John Binder — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:45:31 +0000

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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency deported more than 185,000 illegal aliens in Fiscal Year 2020 including more than 4,200 gang members, despite operational disruption caused by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

Between October 1, 2019, and September 30, 2020, ICE agents deported 185,884 illegal aliens from the United States. About 64 percent of those deported, 118,949 illegal aliens, had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges against them. Nearly 14,500 illegal aliens deported were family units while a little more than 4,000 were Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs).

The overwhelming majority, 92 percent, of illegal aliens deported from the interior of the U.S. had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges against them at the time of their deportation.

As suspected due to the coronavirus, deportations this year dropped by more than 30 percent compared to Fiscal Year 2019 deportations and more than 27 percent compared to Fiscal Year 2018 deportations.

Of the illegal aliens deported this year, 4,276 were known or suspected gang members, and 31 were known or suspected terrorists. This year, ICE’s air travel deportation operation coordinated a record 76 charters to high-risk countries including Jordan, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Mongolia.

There was a 160 percent increase in total deportations via ICE’s high-risk air travel deportations compared to last year. Likewise, ICE agents deported more than 350 high-profile illegal aliens including Bosnian national Saudin Agani, convicted of aiding a terrorist organization.

Agani is a relative of Bosnian illegal alien Dzenan Camovic, who was indicted this year for ambushing two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers in June while shouting the phrase “Allahu Akbar.” Justice Department officials have said that Camovic is a supporter of the Islamic State (ISIS).

As President Trump has surged immigration enforcement, President-Elect Joe Biden has promised to halt deportations of illegal aliens — including convicted criminals — and wind down various interior enforcement measures.

Deportations for illegal aliens is a huge cost-savings for American taxpayers, research has found. The taxpayer cost of the roughly 11 million to 22 million illegal aliens living across the U.S. totals nearly $750 billion over the course of a lifetime while each deportation costs just $10,900. This indicates that taxpayers would save about $622 billion over a lifetime if every illegal alien was deported.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/27/ice-deports-185k-illegal-aliens-4-2k-gang-members-2020/

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