Former top officials say that the Department of Homeland Security’s policy to admit migrants into the nation is not even close to being effective, despite the assertions made by the Biden administration. These people, while speaking with The Daily Caller News Foundation, disclosed that there are ongoing problems with the administration of assistance for illegal border crossers who, under normal circumstances, would be deported.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, made the announcement on January 5 that Title 42 will be expanded to encompass asylum applicants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti. This action was done to assist in mitigating the effects of COVID-19. This decision is a continuation of an effort begun by his predecessor, which aimed to restrict illegal immigration at this unprecedented moment for the health and safety of our country.
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A temporary stay of removal from the country is provided for up to 30,000 persons of specific nationalities under this arrangement. Those who are granted this privilege will be allowed to stay in the nation for a period of two years with the help of a sponsor and will have the ability to access entrance in a comfortable manner utilizing CBP One, which is an app that facilitates speedy access at ports-of-entry.
“These expanded border enforcement measures are working,” In a statement issued on Wednesday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made the following remark. “It is incomprehensible that some states who stand to benefit from these highly effective enforcement measures are seeking to block them and cause more irregular migration at our southern border.”
In a shocking phone conversation with the DCNF, former Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli strongly slammed Mayorkas’ remark as ‘bullshit.’ Mayorkas’ statement was a direct response to Cuccinelli’s comments.
“Bulls***, numbers are not down,” Cuccinelli said. “They’re at record levels. Even if they went down from those record levels in the absence of the previous month record, it’s still the record level. They’re literally importing an entire State of the United States of America every couple of months worth of people. We can’t absorb this. And they know that and that tells you that their intent is to undermine what anybody grew up thinking of as America.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded an astoundingly high number of migrant encounters over the course of the previous fiscal year, with 2.3 million registered by November 2022, followed by an unprecedented 250k in December alone – making it the highest month on record for apprehensions at CBP checkpoints nationwide. In total, the number of apprehensions at CBP checkpoints nationwide surpassed 2.3 million during the previous fiscal year.
“They’re using parole. Much like the Obama administration did DACA. It’s creating a loophole you can drive a truck through. What security comes from this? He can’t identify any security that comes from this. He can’t identify any reducing the flow of illegals coming to the country that he won’t admit illegals. Yeah, right. He’s facilitating it. The guy is an official government human trafficker,” Cuccinelli added.
Clay Thomas, a retired Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge from the El Paso Station, has taken issue with the way in which Secretary Mayorkas describes the situation at the southern border. According to Thomas, Mayorkas is not providing a full assessment of the situation.
“Everything’s not going great,” Thomas said. “This is just been implemented. There’s no metric to determine whether it’s a success or not. In order to determine success on something you have to give it time to have a period of time to show a metric of success. I would assume that that would be no less than three to six months to be able to look and see how it’s working. to problem solve it.”
“To call this a success. This early on after something is just being implemented is unreasonable,” Thomas said.
An extraordinary chance that has also made a whole new universe of opportunities available has been taken by almost 8,000 people from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti who were permitted entrance to the United States under special parole programs.
In a message to the DCNF, former CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan has sounded the alarm about an allegedly unlawful practice of admitting individuals who, under normal circumstances, would be ejected.
“They are legalizing otherwise illegal activity and then claiming victory. So as the numbers of those illegally entering in between the ports of entry significantly recede, watch how the numbers at our ports of entry increase in kind!
“It’s an unlawful, perverse shell game, which serves to mask the crisis rather than address it in any meaningful way. They haven’t put forth a single policy to deter or disincentivize the flow nor to insert integrity back into a broken system through ending of catch and release. They simply transferred their massive release strategy to the ports of entry,” Morgan said.
After making the observation in Mexico prior to the program’s launch, Center for Immigration Studies Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman reported to the DCNF that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been “secretively” using CBP One to admit migrants of more than one hundred nationalities into the country for the past several months.
“It was entirely predicted and predictable that they would do this and it’s an illusion because for every immigrant that did not cross illegally, one got in through this program anyway. So for however many they feel like there would do reducing just as many if not more, are actually being crossed in under this legally questionable new alternative immigration admission system that they’ve created,” Bensman said.
The DHS did not provide a response when asked for comment.
