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The continuing incursion of illegal border crossers into the United States is the most astonishing story in American politics. There have been days recently in which 10,000 people crossed illegally into the country — and remember, in a long-ago era, when Barack Obama was president, a tenth of that was considered a crisis.
The current emergency can be attributed entirely to President Joe Biden. In word and deed, from the 2020 campaign on, Biden sent a message to would-be illegal border crossers around the world: If you come to the United States, you will be allowed to stay. And millions have.
Lately, though, Biden’s welcome-to-illegal-crossers policy has become a burden on some important Democrats. New York City Mayor Eric Adams is screaming about the arrival of an estimated 110,000 new asylum seekers in his city. The cost of caring for the new residents will “destroy New York City,” Adams said. And even though Adams tried to blame Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for sending illegal border crossers to New York, the fact is that Abbott has sent just 13,000. In any event, the presence of all 110,000 in New York is the result of Biden policies.
Now that some Democrats are complaining, news reports say Biden is beginning to feel some pressure. Can he do something to lower the heat? In response, Biden has come up with a way to address the problem: Rush more inadmissible migrants into the United States.
It seems crazy, and it is. But it is more than that. It is also perhaps the best indicator we have of Biden’s intentions in the border crisis. Look at the 10,000-a-day flow of illegal crossers over the border. The president of the United States has the authority and means to protect the U.S. border. The only way a president would allow this to go on for years is if the president wanted this to happen. And it appears that Biden does, in fact, want this to happen.
Early in the border crisis, I wrote, “The president is not trying to stop the flow of illegal crossers. Instead, he is trying to accommodate the flow, scrambling to find housing and living arrangements for those coming in. The message has gotten out to the world, and the world is coming.”
And now Biden is going one step further. With the flow at historic levels, he will use U.S. government resources to speed it up, not to slow it down. This is an entirely intentional crisis.
The New York Times reports that nearly half a million migrants from Venezuela will “be allowed to immediately apply for work authorization.” The purpose of the move, the Times said, is this: “By allowing them to legally earn income, the change could alleviate the costly burden of housing the refugees in major cities across the country. The migrants also will be protected from deportation for at least the next 18 months.”
Maybe that will mollify Mayor Adams for a while. It will certainly increase the incentive for Venezuelans to come to the U.S. as soon as possible. But how, one might ask, did the migrants arrive in the United States from Venezuela in the first place? The answer lies with a Biden administration program known as CBP One. It is what is called a “parole” program, that is, it is designed to release migrants into the United States quickly and without public scrutiny. This is from the Center for Immigration Studies: “A little-known part of the Biden administration’s CBP One parole program permits inadmissible aliens to make an appointment to fly directly to airports in the interior of the United States, bypassing the border altogether.”
The Biden program “allows migrants to take commercial passenger flights from foreign countries straight to their American cities of choice.” The program applies to migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti. The migrants, according to the Center, “request ‘advance travel authorizations’ through the CBP One mobile app and take commercial flights (‘at their own expense’) directly into U.S. airports, where U.S. Customs officers parole them into the nation, sight unseen, and in numbers publicly unknown.”
The numbers are big. Through the Freedom of Information Act, the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports stricter immigration laws, got information on the flights so far in 2023. The administration has allowed in 221,456 migrants through the program this year. There were 29,120 in May, 29,506 in June, 28,669 in August, and so on. The flow continues.
Where are they going? The administration would not disclose which airports have received the migrants. If any local leaders want to know how thousands of new people are arriving in their towns virtually overnight, courtesy of the U.S. government — well, if they want to know that, they can’t find out.
Now the White House is offering immediate work authorization, not just to migrants who crossed the land border illegally but to those who took part in the administration’s secretive flight program. That will surely lure more to come, whether by foot over the border or to an undisclosed airport. If you ever hear an administration official say that President Biden is trying to get the border situation under control — don’t believe it.
Banastre Tarleton says
The Dem Bolsheviks are stealing the country , first in the 2020 FLU D’ETAT , and now they are completing their coup with a migrant COUP DE GRACE
There’s no coming back from this as it’s terminal, something akin to opening the sea hatches on a cruise liner , and if this isn’t stopped dead in its tracks then the USA is over and secession is the only option left
BG Lynch says
what is the penalty for a Presided breaking his vow?
James Keir Baughman says
These traitorous acts can not come from one who is an obvious dementia patient. This fully intentional inner enemy attack on America comes from Bolshevik Communist Democrats hidden behind Biden’s severe mental decline. Find the names of those acting against our Nation behind this sick presidential curtain.
Kasandra says
As I understand parole, it is to be used in individual cases, not for whole classes of cases or nationalities. Even here Biden, the administration, and its far Left backers pervert and violate the law in their maniacal pursuit of making American citizens strangers in their own land.
Justin Swingle says
Gov. Kathy Hochul Looks to Fill 18,000 New York Jobs with Border Crossers
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is looking to fill more than 18,000 jobs across New York with newly arrived border crossers and illegal aliens, as about 385,000 New Yorkers remain unemployed.
Hochul held a press conference on Monday, touting that her administration had worked with employers across New York to identify more than 18,000 unfilled jobs that could be taken by border crossers and illegal aliens.
Steve says
Kathy Hochul is as crooked and as incompetent as her predecessor Randy Andy Grannykiller., who killed thousands of nursing home patients during the plandemic. And the only reason someone as incompetent as she is governor is because Cuomo (like Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner) fell afoul of feminist sex crime laws, which have a presumption of guilt (which they were fine with until they found themselves hoist on their own petards).
JEFFERY says
Byron, they are not migrants. They are invaders, the most insidious being the tens of thousands of young, military age Chinese flooding into America. We all are too familiar with sleeper cells. Another 9/11 seems inevitable. Biden’s handlers will supercharge the Patriot Act and further destroy and remainder of our freedom and liberty.
Walter Sieruk says
The ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato, did have a good valid point when he had written “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
When applying that wise statement to Joe Biden, his “measure” is more than lacking, it’s outright terrible.
Those jihadists of ISIS , al Qaeda and most recently the Taliban are entering in the United States to inflect mas murder on the American people because of President pretender Biden
Biden with his wrecking as in ruining the safety and security of the US citizens by his destroying the US/Mexican secure and safe borders.
Walter Sieruk says
That subversive, Un- American impostor “president “ Joe Biden got into the White House Oval Office and ruined everything and likewise wrecked all the good that President Trump had accomplished.
Secure strong borders was a great achievement of President Trump. The tragic reality is that also very dangerous
Furthermore, President Trump understands the need for a good strong US/Mexican border control, likewise he cares. In contrast Biden doesn’t care at all the safety of the American people and is probably is intentionally attempting to harm America. Those porous borders are really an invitation jihad operatives for Iran and jihadists of Hezbollah and Hamas as well as jihadists of al Qaeda and ISIS to enter the United States an inflect mass murder , destruction and mayhem upon the US.
In conclusion, Joe Biden and those who uphold him in power and dangerous treacherous subversive villains of the must horrendous sort that there can possibly be.
Steve says
Mexico is like Lebanon, a country whose real rulers are warlords (Hizbollah in the case of Lebanon, drug cartels in the case of Mexico). Dementia Joe is working as hard as his feeble faculties allow to use the same template for the United States.
Onzeur Trante says
Lawmakers in DC are not serious about the border. Right now it seems only Gov Abbott is addressing the invasion head on by using the river barrier and continuing to build the wall on the TX border. Has anyone else done anything as substantial in an effort to stop the hordes from gaining entry? “Visits” to the border do not count.
Debra says
I have to dispute your claim about Gov Abbott.. He’s either feckless or controlled opposition.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12537169/colony-ridge-Texas-illegal-migrant-town.html
Robert Michael says
See article on Sweden’s nightmare in same issue. What impels countries to self-destruction, anyway?
ROY TREPANIER says
Blame OBiden. Yup. Blame Obama. Yup. Blame WEF. Yup. Blame Bill Gates. Yup. Blame The UN. Yup. Blame Fauci. Yup.
BUT, these are just the puppets. Ya gotta put the real blame on the real culprit, ole beazlebub, satan himself. If you haven’t seen his hand behind ALL of this trans, ilegals, viloent mobs like Antifa, etc. etc. etc., then I fear there ain’t much hope left for you….UNLESS you call on Jesus and beg His forgiveness and accept His sacrifice that He made for you on that cruel Roman cross.
It’s the only hope you have of getting out of godless madhous and into an eternity with the God who made you, loves you and sent His only son to die in your place. But, better hurry. Time is almost up. Nuclear war is on the horizon as is Christ’s return to judge this Christ-rejecting planet. Hint….you don’t want to be here for that. About 5 billion will die in the next 7 years.
Such a deal.
Rev. Roy………..<
Fred A. says
In addition to what was stated in this article, two other issues need to be considered. Once the illegal aliens become established, many then will send for their wives and children to come to America. That will add millions more to America’s population. Second, once they become U. S. citizens, they will be able to bring unlimited numbers of family members to America under ‘Family Reunification Act’ signed into law by Bill Clinton. Just to provide you how far this particular law has impacted the United States for one particular individual based on an article I read. This individual came to America legally from Asia. Over the course of 20 years, he brought 95 blood relatives to America.
The President and the Congress have no idea what they are doing to the country because of immigration laws. As I stated in the previous paragraph regarding the ‘Family Reunification Act’, there is the financial impact as well. There is no age limit under that law. Many of you may not realize that around 100,000 old people are being brought to America every year under that law. They are provided with a pension under SSI, medical care under Medic Aid state programs, plus other benefits and they never had to pay a dime in taxes. I still have the WSJ article from 1994.
Now ask yourself this, what is going to be the cost to provide housing, food, education for their children, plus other other benefits as well to Illegal aliens and all the family members that will come here shortly after they have established themselves in America? They will also be titled to rent subsidies under Section 8, food stamps, free legal services, free public school education for their children, and free medical care, if it is not provided by their employer. The WSJ’s article stated that to provide pension and medical care for around 1.5 million elderly people brought to America was estimated around 20 billion dollars a year in the year 2000. Of course, it is much higher now. When I checked a few years back on Homeland Security website to see how many elderly people are still coming to America, it was still around 100,00 a year.
All the social programs mentioned also apply to legal immigrants who come here every year.