The U.S. southern border near Del Rio, Texas has continued to collapse amid a flood of Haitian migrants entering the country illegally and setting up encampments. The Biden administration, which is the primary cause of the crisis with lax border policies and promises not to deport anyone, has been unable to contain or stem the flow of migrants seeking a new life in the United States.
Various Biden administration officials, including White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, have been asked to provide numbers on how many migrants have simply been released into the country rather than deported back to their country of origin.
The administration has been repeating the claim that migrants entering the country illegally face immediate expulsion, but that claim has been proven demonstrably false, as reports indicate otherwise:
Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion.
Haitians have been freed on a “very, very large scale” in recent days, according to one U.S. official who put the figure in the thousands. The official, with direct knowledge of operations, was not authorized to discuss the matter Tuesday and thus spoke on condition of anonymity.
Many have been released with notices to appear at an immigration office within 60 days, an outcome that requires less processing time from Border Patrol agents than ordering an appearance in immigration court and points to the speed at which authorities are moving, the official said.
In other words, the administration is attempting to publicly cover up the massive relocation and release effort underway which is causing yet more incentive for migrants to head north and walk across the Rio Grande.
Just a day ago, Secretary Mayorkas, head of DHS, would not or could not provide numbers on how many migrants were being released:
The crisis is continuing to spiral out of control with scenes in Texas now resembling a third-world shantytown near Del Rio.
President Biden seems to be entirely absent on the issue, as is Vice President Kamala Harris. Both leaders are nowhere to be found as the U.S. southern border turns into a one-way revolving door for anyone wishing to enter the country and essentially gain unabetted freedom.
The turmoil within the Biden administration has been demonstrated in recent days as at least one official, calling for the Haitians to gain refugee status, has resigned over the prospect that anyone would be deported back to the island of Hispaniola due to Haiti’s current conditions:
Daniel Foote, the US special envoy for Haiti, has handed in his resignation to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, saying he will “not be associated with the United States inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees” from the US-Mexico border.
He adds that the US policy approach to Haiti remains “deeply flawed.”
The Biden administration is presently grappling with an influx of thousands of migrants, many of whom are Haitian, at the US-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas. The administration has repeatedly vowed in public statements that the migrants will be turned away, drawing the ire of many Democrats and human rights groups who say it is inhumane to return the migrants because of Haiti’s humanitarian crisis.
In short, the situation is an entire incompetent mess. Officials within the Biden administration are arguing with each other over how to resolve the problem, and none of them seem to have a coherent plan or message.
To make matters worse, cries of racism against overwhelmed Border Patrol agents are now muddying the debate within the Biden administration:
Uproar over treatment of thousands of Haitian immigrants who have encamped at the U.S.-Mexico border is echoing from the streets of U.S. cities to the halls of the Capitol as people mobilize over what they believe is a racist and unequal U.S. immigration system. While the outcry was sparked by the current border crisis, it is a culmination of years of frustration over what is perceived as harsher treatment and extra hurdles faced by Black immigrants coming to the United States vs. lighter-skinned counterparts.
Now the U.S. Border Patrol is being painted as “racist” for attempting to control an out-of-control situation created by the Biden administration. They’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t, and not a single bureaucrat managing this crisis from their chairs in Washington, D.C. has bothered to visit the border and see just how difficult and impossible the situation is for the men and women on the ground trying to prevent this invasion.
The other side of the problem is that despite some public claims that migrants will be deported, the migrants themselves know otherwise and they are using social media and other communication means to convey this reality to more and more of their friends and relatives down in central America. This is having an effect to continue the chain of migration and keep the people flowing north where they meet a wide-open border and a better than 50% chance they are simply released into the United States with no questions asked.
This mess is far from over and speaks to just how incompetent President Biden is as a leader along with his entire administration. There are no good answers provided by them, and no good solutions to a problem they have intentionally and willfully helped to perpetrate against the American people.
