A disturbing – but not surprising – number of migrants from Central America have taken President Joe Biden up on his offer to make it easier for them to enter the United States legally and illegally. After only being in office for a little over a year, over 1 million people have gained entry into the country, and this administration is facilitating a crisis that will take decades to remedy.
A court brief filed with the Supreme Court by the America First Legal Foundation says the White House has released more than 750,000 illegal aliens into the United States since taking office in January last year. Shortly after his inauguration, President Biden reversed most of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and brought back the Catch and Release approach favored by both Democratic and Republican administrations in the past.
Breitbart News reported:
Specifically, DHS has released more than 756,109 border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities from January 21, 2021, to February 28, 2022, the brief states. This is larger than the resident population of Boston, about equal to the size of Denver, Colorado, and larger than the population of Detroit, Michigan.
Broken down by agency, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released nearly 545,000 border crossers and illegal aliens while the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released close to 212,000 border crossers and illegal aliens.
Breitbart also noted that at the current deportation rate, it would take the authorities 14.5 years to remove each individual that the Biden administration has released into the country. The author also points out that the 756,109 number “does not include the 500,000 illegal aliens who successfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021 without being apprehended, nor the nearly 123,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) that have been resettled across the U.S. since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2021.”
With these numbers combined, the White House has likely allowed about 1.4 million illegals into the country since Biden took office. What is particularly striking about this development is that this influx of illegals has occurred while Title 42, a measure allowing Border Patrol to turn away or deport people coming from countries dealing with COVID-19, was in place. Now, the White House is set to lift this measure, which will inevitably lead to more surges at the southern border and a drastic increase in illegal immigration.
Breitbart News also reported that the Department of Homeland Security created a plan that would enhance the administration’s Catch and Release approach. The report says “the intended goal of ending Title 42 is to create ‘broadscale release mechanisms’ that transform the southern border into a mere checkpoint for foreign nationals before they are released into American communities.”
Despite the political damage that removing Title 42 will cause to Democrats seeking to win or retain public office in the upcoming congressional elections, the Biden administration is going full throttle on its open borders agenda. Several high-profile Democrats have criticized the president, noting that he made this decision without bothering to develop a plan to deal with the increase in activity at the border that will follow the lifting of Title 42.
Of course, anyone with an IQ higher than my shoe size knows that this is Biden’s plan. He and his cronies want as much immigration – legal and illegal – as possible. It is why he caused the migrant crisis in the first place, and why he and Vice President Kamala Harris refuse to do anything about it. Sure, they have made milquetoast overtures towards trying to convince migrants not to make the journey to the southern border. But these people know they are far more likely to make it into the country than they were under Trump.
What is truly frightening about this scenario is that Biden still has three more years to go. This is three more years of Catch and Release, and open borders policies, that are sure to bring in an even higher number of illegal aliens. When Republicans retake the House and possibly the Senate, they are going to have their work cut out for them. Unfortunately, passing legislation forcing the administration to start taking the migrant crisis seriously won’t be an easy task, especially if Republicans are unable to get enough Democrats on board. They will need to win big in November if they wish to have a chance at curtailing Biden’s open borders agenda. Otherwise, Democrats and squishy Republican types will ensure that Congress does nothing to deal with the problem.
