The Center for Immigration Studies’ Todd Bensman is a Senior National Security Fellow and the author of the book “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed The Greatest Border Crisis In U.S. History.”
After almost two years of careless management of the American southern border by President Joe Biden, every record in the history of mass migration lay smashed.
Unbelievably, it will get catastrophically worse in just a week.
In 2022, there were a record-breaking 4.4 million illegal border crossings, and an additional 1.5 million ‘got-aways’ were thought to have entered the nation covertly.
The proportion of global nationalities crossing borders is at its greatest level ever, while internal deportations are at their lowest level ever.
Even still, this chaos of 7,000–9,000 illegal border crossers apprehended every single day, and 200,000+ every single month for the last two years, is just a Category 3 storm on the scale of mass migration.
With the expected removal of “Title 42” on December 21, the final genuine barrier to a next-level disaster well beyond not just the American experience but that of every industrialized country, a Category 5 is bearing down on the United States.
A hitherto unimaginable storm is forming just outside America’s borders, according to U.S. intelligence assessments, portending a possibly long-lasting transformation of the nation. And unless the Biden administration makes a last-minute, improbable request to postpone the repeal of Title 42, America is expected to suffer significantly.
Title 42 is the pandemic-control law that, since March 2020, has permitted the U.S. Border Patrol to swiftly deport the majority of border crossers back to Mexico and, more importantly, denied them access to a highly fraud-able asylum system. It is scheduled for court-ordered demolition later this month.
For the pitiful price of a woeful story that has to be never be verified, our flawed asylum system stymies deportation and mainlines illegal immigrants directly into America, pretty much forever.
Don’t believe anything I say.
In a recent interview with Face the Nation, former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said, “I have to be honest about the asylum rules and the processes.” At the moment, processing an asylum request after entry into the nation takes six years.
One of the issues is that the first qualification standard is rather low, he stated. Approximately 70% of migrants who apply for asylum are eligible, while only approximately 20% of applicants are ultimately granted refuge. There is a six-year waiting period in between.
I’ll emphasize Johnson’s words once more: 70% of migrants who request asylum are granted entry to the United States. Only 20% of applicants get refuge in the end.
Migrants are aware of this, therefore we must create a mechanism that will enable us to handle their claims more quickly. Johnson rounded out. I know my left-leaning pals won’t be overjoyed to hear that.
The situation is caused by U.S. asylum because the simple process of requesting asylum at the border enables primarily unqualified economic immigrants to avoid being detained and deported in a backlogged queue years long.
It also makes it possible for people who promptly withdraw their claims or ultimately lose their asylum applications to just vanish into the nation.
Nearly 90% of all detained illegal immigrants were expelled or denied refuge under Title 42, which was employed by former President Donald Trump. And when refused entry to the asylum, most people logically remained at home.
On Inauguration Day 2021, however, Biden expanded significant Title 42 exemptions for immigrant families, young adults living alone, and expectant women, and everything changed. This instantly decreased the overall expulsion rate to almost 60% of all participants who were detained.
Even though it was enough to start the Category 3 cyclone, Biden’s DHS further decreased the expulsions to around 40%.
Nothing will remain between a sizable and needy worldwide population and the alluring draw of the American asylum system after this last piece of Title 42 has vanished.
Numerous thousands of people from all over the world are reportedly on their way, reacting undoubtedly to the promise of rapid admission for the most majority of them, according to Mexican media.
Over 1,000 migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua may have been the biggest illegal immigrant group in history when they swam over a river into El Paso, Texas, on Sunday night.
After the repeal of Title 42, expect a minimum of 12,000 individuals per day to cross into “our judicial system,” according to projections from the US intelligence community that were released last spring.
If current trends continue, the historic, crushing, border-collapsing 200,000 people each month might increase to 340,000 people per month, or as many as 4.3 million people annually.
And it represents the bottom of the scale.
According to those intelligence estimates, crossings might total up to 18,000 each day, 540,000 every month, and 6.4 million annually.
That would be close to half of the known illegal population in America as of right now.
No one can possibly claim that this is humane. Uncountable numbers of helpless women and children are at danger from sex traffickers as a result of mass illegal migration. It is sickeningly frequent for people to be raped and mistreated when traveling to America.
The U.S.-Mexico border was dubbed the “deadliest land crossing in the world” in a study released by the United Nations this summer, soon after 53 human remains were discovered in an abandoned truck trailer near San Antonio, Texas. Smugglers left them there to perish.
Unsecured borders are also points of entry for illicit narcotics into the United States. And the criminal gangs and drug cartels in charge of it all stand to gain from it all.
What steps is the Biden White House doing to prevent, stop, and deport this impending catastrophe?
Shamefully, very little.
Instead, it seems from the Biden DHS proposal that its goal is to hydroplane this traffic into America, therefore fostering it even more.
In order to avoid backlogs and camps that would garner media attention, the Biden administration is frantically mobilizing officers, agents, and volunteers from every branch of the government, even removing U.S. Air Marshals from passenger planes, to assist in processing immigrants through the asylum system.
The whole plan is to use an enlarged version of an already-existing conveyor belt system controlled by even more non-profit migrant support organizations than presently do that job to rapidly transport the projected hundreds of thousands by airplane and bus off the border and into interior America.
The author, Todd Bensman, worked for the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division for nine years as a senior intelligence analyst.
It will be interesting to see whether the government is able to divert public attention away from the camps and backlogs that will unavoidably develop.
Millions of primarily illiterate, unskilled individuals who do not understand English, are likely to need public assistance, and who might potentially join a growing permanent illegal underclass are already having a negative impact on every front of the country’s interior.
In public school districts around the country, when overcrowding strains the educational system and raises local tax rates, parents suffer the burden. After all, Biden exempted immigrant families, unaccompanied adolescents, and pregnant women from Title 42 from the moment he took office, which led to the current catastrophe.
Unfunded obligations on local public assistance budgets and healthcare systems that must serve the uninsured will increase day by day, week by week, month by month, and year by year. They will keep occupying hotels, subsidized housing, and shelters for the homeless.
The next developments will always be linked to this historical period, which future generations will remember and examine for what it is.
The storm that is approaching has been brewing for many months or maybe years. If you though that Biden’s negligence at the border could not be topped, think again.
Shut the doors and windows.
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