Today’s topic follows from
Newsweek (March 25, 2021).
Also
from Newsweek: “7 of 10 Migrants Expelled from U.S. in February, but
Most Crossings Were Minors”
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) data shows the number
of solo children encountered by border patrol last year before Biden
assumed office:
April and November 2020: Rose from 712 apprehensions to
3,308 encounters.
September 2020: The highest number of encounters was
3,756.
The surge in child arrivals started even before a ruling by
Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan who stated: “Trump must stop expelling
minor migrants encountered at the border under a public health rule.”
NOTE: About 13,000
unaccompanied minors had been deported under the Trump administration last year
before Judge Sullivan's ruling.
March 2020: Trump invoked a little-known provision known as Title 42, which gives
immigration authorities unchecked authority to reject arrivals in the name of
public health under Section 265 of the rule.
Judge Sullivan’s ruling also stated: “The Court agrees that the
undisputed authority granted in Section 265 is extraordinary and that the
COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented, but that is entirely distinguishable from
whether or not Section 265 authorizes the Government to expel persons.”
Rather than rapidly return them to Mexico or fly them back
to their home countries, the Trump administration was ordered by Sullivan to
accept child arrivals and hear their immigration claims. Sullivan did not
include families and single adults in his ruling.
But the decision may have set the stage for even more child
migrant to make the dangerous journey north, creating the tense situation now
gripping the Biden administration.
As the news spread across Central America that child
migrants would not be expelled, facilities operated by HHS started to get
crowded. Biden inherited that ongoing crisis.
NOW IN 2021 SINCE BIDEN WAS SWORN INTO OFFICE:
The CBP data reports that 9,297 unaccompanied minors were
encountered by border patrol in February and now over 11,000 solo children have
been detained within the first three weeks of March.
And Biden's approach to the influx of solo kids at the
border has been met with rebuke from political critics and praise from migrants who hail the president as a humanitarian.
Biden just like Trump continues to use Title 42 to turn away nearly all single adults and families at
the border.
But unlike Trump, Biden is keeping solo children and giving
them chance to have their cases heard.
“This so called RUSH CRISIS is politically charged-terminology, but it did not occur in the last couple months. It has been happening all along,” said immigration lawyer Charlene D'Cruz.
The CBP confirmed in an email to Newsweek:
“Numbers of encounters at the border have been rising since April 2020, due to several factors including ongoing violence, insecurity, and famine in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America. As it always has, the number of individuals crossing the border continues to fluctuate and we continue to adapt accordingly.”
Plus, HSD Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last week that the number of unaccompanied migrant children under the Biden administration is on pace to be the largest in the past 20 years due to the conflicting previous Trump policy and Judge Sullivan’s ruling – and that is what we are facing right now today.
My 2 cents: This simple
GOP-Trump sycophant strategy: – keep blaming Biden and keep up the heat for
Trump to maximize and of course raise tons of money – but not for 2024. He
badly needs money to pay his soon due loans (a lot of them). Pitiful man and
most who stick with him, too.
Case in point: This from
Politico re: Stephen “Dark Evader” Miller:
Former Trump White House
policy adviser Stephen Miller, known for his hardline immigration policies and
conservative culture war postures, is launching a new legal group. And
he’s looking to use it to make Joe Biden’s life miserable.
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