Illegal border crossings are down from the eye-watering levelꦑs during the ru♛sh before the end of Title 42.
Some House Democrats visit♈ed the border last week and
President Biden responded tಞo a reporter’s question about the border a couple weeks ago saying it was “much better than you all expected.”
So the border crisis is over, right?
Hardly.
The administration’s goal at the border has never been to stop the flow of people who have no right to come to the United States. Rather, the White House just wants the problem to stop being in the n✤ews.
It wasn’t bothered by the fact that ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthe limits on immigration Congress passed were being flouted, but that they were being flouted in a disorderly manner that made them look bad.
Solution? Replace the chaotic violation of America’s borders with an orderly violation of America’s borders.
This is the job of the CBP One app, which allows people to schedule their illegal im♈migration.
So instead of crossing the border illegally and turning themselves in to the Border Patrol and then get released into the United States, they can now make an appointment to be let in “legally” at a port of entry and then get released into the United States.
But regardless of who breaks the law — the aliens by ju𒁃mping the border or the administration by letting them in at the p🌊orts of entry — it’s all .
This is what the administration means when it talks about “expanding legal pathw💎ays” to America as an alternative to illegal immigration.
You might think it would be Congre𝓡ss’ job to decide if the number of immigrants admi✤tted to the country should be expanded, not the president’s.
But as in so many other areas of government policy, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is set on braze༒nly violating the immigration law and the Constitution until somebody sꦜtops it.
The result is funneling i🐻nadmissible migrants through the ports of entry (including international airports inside the country) at a , which the administration says it can increase by however much it wants, whenever it wants.
And the nu🍎mb🔜er of migrants the president decides to illegally let in is sure to increase.
One of the “expanded legal pathways” — for people from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti — was given an arbitrary cap ꧑of 30,000 a month.
But the number of p♌eople in the United States who have signed up to “sponsor” illegal immigrants from these countries has blown past .
Since the cap of 30,000 per month was made up to begin with, you can bet the administration will just make u๊p a higher cap and illegally admit ev🌸en more people.
But however high the cap is for thꦓis and the oth🍸er “expanded legal pathways,” it will never be high enough.
That’s why some migrants, tired of waiting for an appointment, are just coming to the ports of entry and in supposedly tough new rules to claim they’re having technꦿical problems with the app.
Our reporting (still 𓆉underway) suggests that other people tired of waiting for a CBP One appointment are just crossing the border illegally and being let go, as before.
And if all else fails, aliens a💦re just sneaking across the border and successfully eluding the overburdened and demoralized Border Patrol, in what appears to be an
Over? The border crisis is just getting started.
Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.