Commentary
Does the Border Feel Under Control to You?: The White House doesn’t view the surge of illegal immigration across the border as a problem to be solved
By Mark Krikorian
The Spectator, May 21, 2021
Excerpt: President Biden told NBC at the end of last month that the border crisis is ‘way down now; we’ve now gotten control’. At first glance, this is preposterous. The number of border arrests in April was a 21-year high, at more than 178,000, with more than a third of all arrests being families or unaccompanied minors. To get a sense of the scale, President Obama’s Homeland Security secretary, Jeh Johnson, has said that 1,000 border arrests a day ‘overwhelms the system’ — in April, daily arrests averaged nearly 6,000. Does that sound like a border that’s under ‘control’?
They Heard It through the Grapevine: Illegals Are Coming from All Over
By Mark Krikorian
National Review, May 19, 2021
Excerpt: The border crisis continues, with the total number of illegal immigrants encountered at the border in April at a 21-year high for that month, though up just 3 percent from March. But families (adults traveling with minors) from countries other than the usual Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador made up 30 percent of all illegal-alien families apprehended in April, up a whopping 34 percent from the previous month.
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Podcast
The Loopholes That Drive the Border Crisis
Guest: Andrew R. Arthur
Moderator: Mark Krikorian
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 4, May 20, 2021
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Featured Blogs
AAO Decisions (Unwittingly) Cast Light on Obscure Migration Problems
By David North
Unlike court decisions, rulings by USCIS's in-house appeals body routinely hide the names of the judge, all lawyers in the case, the alien appellant, any corporations involved, and even the location in the U.S. But sometimes useful information comes through despite the censorship.
Mayorkas Downplays Crisis at the Border: Offers non sequiturs while ignoring public safety and the loopholes that encourage illegal migration
By Andrew R. Arthur
On May 13, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) and downplayed the crisis at the border. Many, including Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), challenged his contentions, and got some interesting answers from Mayorkas — none of which addressed the loopholes that encourage illegal entry, or even admitted that those loopholes even exist.
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Biden Meets with Illegal Aliens at the White House: You can't get into the Oval Office if you're actually "undocumented'
By Rob Law
On Friday, President Biden met with six illegal alien beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive amnesty program. According to the one-paragraph readout of the meeting, Biden “reiterated his support for Dreamers, TPS holders, farmworkers, and other essential immigrant workers.”
Texas Responds to the Border Crisis: State law enforcement assists an overwhelmed Border Patrol
By Todd Bensman
“Operation Lone Star”, which Republican Governor Greg Abbott rolled out in March, doubled the state’s law enforcement presence in the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector at the southern tip of Texas to 1,000 personnel, at a cost to the taxpayers of Texas.
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