Re: The new border chaos: a crisis of foolish Biden's own making

On 3/12/21 8:40 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://nypost.com/2021/03/04/the-new-border-chaos-a-crisis-of-bidens-own-
> making/
> 
> A crisis is a terrible thing to create. This, nonetheless, is what 
> President Biden has done at the southern border.
> 
> His rhetoric during the campaign suggesting an open-handed approach to 
> migrants coming to the US, and his early moves to undo Donald Trump’s 
> border policies, are creating a migrant surge that risks running out of 
> control.
> 
> Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the situation isn’t a 
> crisis, but “a challenge” — an “acute” and “stressful” challenge with some 
> “urgency,” but merely a challenge all the same.
> 
> Consider the contours of this challenge. Twice as many people, about 
> 80,000, tried to cross the border illegally in January of this year as 
> compared with January a year ago.
> 
> Even though it isn’t peak traveling season yet (that traditionally comes 
> in May and June), the US Border Patrol has already begun releasing 
> migrants into US towns on the border.
> 
> Axios reported on a briefing prepared for Biden that warned that the 
> number of migrant kids is on pace to set a record, and there aren’t nearly 
> enough beds to accommodate them.
> 
> Biden officials tend to discuss the “push factors,” the conditions that 
> prompt migrants to flee their countries in Central America. But changing 
> those underlying conditions, even if doable, is a long-term proposition. 
> What we have much more direct control over is the “pull factors,” our own 
> policies and practices that create an incentive to come here.
> 
> Trump had a number of false starts at the border, but, by the end, had 
> created an entirely reasonable system based on his lawful authorities to 
> impose order at the border. There is no good reason to rip up much of this 
> arrangement, though that’s exactly what Biden has done.
> 
> During the pandemic, Trump turned around illegal crossers at the border on 
> public-health grounds. Biden has created an exception for unaccompanied 
> minors, which is an obvious incentive for families to send children under 
> age 18.
> 
> Under Trump, the Migration Protection Protocols, also known as Remain in 
> Mexico, ended the practice of letting Central American migrants into the 
> US while their asylum claims were adjudicated.
> 
> This was crucial because, under the old arrangement, asylum seekers were 
> allowed in while their claims were considered. Even if the claims were 
> ultimately rejected, as the vast majority of them were, the migrants 
> overwhelmingly ended up staying anyway. This was a huge magnet to migrants 
> — get to the border and claim asylum and you’re in the United States, very 
> likely to stay.
> 
> Biden has trashed the Migrant Protection Protocols. No new asylum seekers 
> will be enrolled in the program, and the backlog of people who had been 
> waiting in Mexico are being admitted into the United States.
> 
> He’s also suspended the so-called “safe third-country” agreements that 
> Trump forged with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to get asylum-
> seekers to apply in one of those countries.
> 
> The premise of the overall Trump approach was that people who feared for 
> their lives in their home country because of persecution don’t necessarily 
> need to come to the United States to escape. It should be enough for them 
> to go to another country in the region, or if they are indeed applying for 
> US asylum, to stay in Mexico while doing so.
> 
> Allowing them into the United States, with no reliable internal 
> enforcement mechanism, constitutes an end-run around our immigration 
> system. Because migrants, like anyone else, respond to incentives, the 
> more who are allowed in, the more will come. And, since our resources 
> aren’t infinite, if enough families show up at the border, it inevitably 
> overtaxes our personnel and facilities.
> 
> Even if Biden has different priorities, it makes no sense to create a 
> willy-nilly rush at the border before a supposedly better system is in 
> place (whatever that might be).
> 
> Mayorkas blames Trump for having “dismantled our nation’s immigration 
> system in its entirety,” a claim as absurd as the notion that the Biden 
> administration started from scratch on vaccinations.
> 
> Trump got a handle on the border, which in 2014 and 2019 had spun out of 
> control. Call it what you will, a crisis or a challenge, but Biden is on a 
> path to heedlessly repeat this experience.
> 
> Twitter: @RichLowry
> 
> 
> 
REMEMBER THIS on the first Tuesday in November 2022....

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