XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.republicans XPost: sac.politics
https://nypost.com/2022/04/15/migrants-cross-texas-border-by-hundreds- with-title-42-lift-looming/
Officials at the US-Mexico border reported 221,303 migrant encounters in
March of this year — the most in any single month during the Biden administration — as well as the most apprehensions in exactly 22 years, according to statistics submitted to a Texas federal court Friday.
The disclosures, which were made in response to a lawsuit by the attorneys general of Texas and Missouri supporting the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy toward asylum-seekers, indicate a 34% increase in the number of encounters over February, when 164,973 stops were reported.
Prior to March of this year, the most encounters during the current administration were 213,593 in July of last year and 209,840 in August.
The Biden administration also reported that Border Patrol officials had apprehended 209,906 suspected illegal immigrants, the most since 220,063 apprehensions were reported in March of 2000.
The filing was submitted with more than five weeks still to go before the
Biden administration removes the Title 42 health authority over illegal immigrants. The policy currently allows border authorities to quickly
expel migrants, without first hearing their asylum claims, due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The months of March, April and May are traditionally when the number of attempted border crossings are at their highest. However, new statistics released by border authorities in Texas suggest the long-feared surge of migrants spurred by the scheduled May 23 repeal of Title 42 has already
begun.
According to the Border Patrol, agents in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley sector
alone have encountered 10 large groups (defined by authorities as
numbering 100 people or more) in the past week. That number is a third of
all the large groups agents in that single sector have come across since October.
One video posted to Instagram by Rio Grande Valley Chief Patrol Agent
Brian Hastings shows a group of 202 illegal immigrants from Central
America, South America and the Caribbean being detained near Roma, Texas,
at 3 a.m. Thursday. Though the group included family units and
unaccompanied minors, just over half its members — 104 in all — were
single adults.
Hours later and about 30 miles to the east, another 135 migrants were apprehended near La Grulla. Nearly three-quarters of that group — 101 in
all — were single adults and just three were unaccompanied minors.
Migrants who took part in the attempted crossing hailed from Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba — and Uzbekistan.
“The logistics required to transport and process groups of this size place
a strain on manpower and resources, as they are usually encountered in
desolate areas not easily accessible by large transportation vehicles,”
the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing border agents,
said in a statement Friday.
The numbers from previous days are even more staggering. Last weekend,
border agents rounded up four separate large groups totaling 754 people — including 356 adults and 123 unaccompanied children.
Photos of the arrests show dozens and dozens of immigrants outnumbering
just a handful of federal agents.
The situation is little better in the nearby Del Rio sector.
On April 2 — one day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced its intention to lift Title 42 —US Border Patrol agents
discovered a group of 146 migrants near the town of Normandy.
The next day, 140 migrants were found near Normandy, and another 126 were
found in that same area the following day.
Two days after that, on April 6, Del Rio sector agents discovered the
largest group of the current surge. This one was comprised of 171
migrants, 112 of whom were originally from Cuba and another 24 of whom
were from Venezuela. The remainder originated in Colombia, Peru, Nicaragua
and Chile.
The Border Patrol did not respond to The Post’s request for an explanation
of the increase in large groups. But elected officials and local law enforcement have made clear that whether or not there is a direct link
between the surge in large illegal immigrant groups and Title 42, the
lifting of the order will spur many, many more to follow.
“Once word gets back to family that others have made it into the country
after May 23, we expect numbers to dramatically increase,” Border Patrol
agent Jon Anfinsen told The Post Friday.
In McAllen, Republican Mayor Javier Villalobos pleaded with Biden to keep
Title 42 in place this week, warning in a letter that “no amount of
preparation will allow for a local government such as the City of McAllen
to respond to the dramatic rise of undocumented migration that is
anticipated”.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud:
sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)