President Biden’s newly announced border policy will allow a whole lot of 1000’s of migrants to use for asylum within the US whether or not they deserve it or not — further undermining America’s immigration enforcement structure, a longtime border watcher said Friday.
In a White House speech Thursday, Biden announced the US would let 30,000 Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans into the US every month — provided they apply for asylum via an official cellphone app, pay for his or her airfare and discover a financial sponsor. Anyone who shows up on the frontier could be denied entry.
“Don’t, do not only show up on the border,” Biden said. “Stay where you might be and apply legally from there.”
Nevertheless, the apparent tightening of migration restrictions is nothing greater than a “shell game,” based on Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies.
“The largest flaw of Biden’s border policies so far has been his abject refusal to detain aliens entering illegally,” Arthur told The Post in an email Friday, calling such motion “the one thing that might stop other migrants from entering illegally.”
As an alternative, based on US Customs and Border Protection’s own data, the overwhelming majority of those apprehended have been allowed to attend for the consequence of their asylum cases in America.
In November, essentially the most recent month for which statistics can be found, 141,140 illegal border-crossers were detained and never summarily expelled under the Trump-era Title 42 health authority. Of that total, Arthur wrote on the Center’s website, fewer than 6,500 were subject to expedited removal, during which migrants without documents are sent back home.
“Expedited removal must have been the administration’s first recourse in response to the border,” Arthur told The Post. As an alternative, most migrants have been allowed to say “credible fear” of persecution of their home countries and released into the US after the Biden administration stopped enforcing the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy.
The final result, based on Arthur, is that “nationals of all countries on this planet will likely still be allowed to use for asylum in the US—whatever the strength of their asylum claims.”
In fiscal 12 months 2022, which ended Sept. 30, greater than 2.3 million migrants were apprehended attempting to cross the US-Mexico border, a number that doesn’t include those that eluded law enforcement and slipped into America undetected.
Biden made the announcement just days before a planned visit to El Paso, Texas, on Sunday for his first trip to the southern border as president. From there, he’ll travel on to Mexico City to fulfill with North American leaders on Monday and Tuesday.
President Biden’s newly announced border policy will allow a whole lot of 1000’s of migrants to use for asylum within the US whether or not they deserve it or not — further undermining America’s immigration enforcement structure, a longtime border watcher said Friday.
In a White House speech Thursday, Biden announced the US would let 30,000 Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans into the US every month — provided they apply for asylum via an official cellphone app, pay for his or her airfare and discover a financial sponsor. Anyone who shows up on the frontier could be denied entry.
“Don’t, do not only show up on the border,” Biden said. “Stay where you might be and apply legally from there.”
Nevertheless, the apparent tightening of migration restrictions is nothing greater than a “shell game,” based on Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies.
“The largest flaw of Biden’s border policies so far has been his abject refusal to detain aliens entering illegally,” Arthur told The Post in an email Friday, calling such motion “the one thing that might stop other migrants from entering illegally.”
As an alternative, based on US Customs and Border Protection’s own data, the overwhelming majority of those apprehended have been allowed to attend for the consequence of their asylum cases in America.
In November, essentially the most recent month for which statistics can be found, 141,140 illegal border-crossers were detained and never summarily expelled under the Trump-era Title 42 health authority. Of that total, Arthur wrote on the Center’s website, fewer than 6,500 were subject to expedited removal, during which migrants without documents are sent back home.
“Expedited removal must have been the administration’s first recourse in response to the border,” Arthur told The Post. As an alternative, most migrants have been allowed to say “credible fear” of persecution of their home countries and released into the US after the Biden administration stopped enforcing the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy.
The final result, based on Arthur, is that “nationals of all countries on this planet will likely still be allowed to use for asylum in the US—whatever the strength of their asylum claims.”
In fiscal 12 months 2022, which ended Sept. 30, greater than 2.3 million migrants were apprehended attempting to cross the US-Mexico border, a number that doesn’t include those that eluded law enforcement and slipped into America undetected.
Biden made the announcement just days before a planned visit to El Paso, Texas, on Sunday for his first trip to the southern border as president. From there, he’ll travel on to Mexico City to fulfill with North American leaders on Monday and Tuesday.
