Are You Ready For a Bigger Flood of Illegal Immigrants at the Border?

Title 42 will expire on May 11, 2023, and the flood of illegal immigrants coming into the United States will greatly increase. The Biden administration – Department of Homeland Security – is blaming smugglers for spreading disinformation about the border being open. I do not understand why they do not simply close the border, but I know that they will not.

According to Virginia Allen at The Daily Signal, Title 42 is a public health measure that was put in place during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic by the Trump administration. It gave Border Patrol the authority to “quickly expel some illegal aliens from the country.” It worked well until Biden became POTUS and opened the borders to whoever wanted to come to America. 

Instead of closing the border, “Biden has authorized 1,5000 active-duty U.S. troops to be deployed at the border for 90 days to assist” the Border Patrol. The troops will help with transportation and administrative tasks, freeing “Border Patrol and other law enforcement to work in the field.”

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) expects that “as many as 14,000 illegal aliens are expected to be encountered at the southern border daily when Title 42 ends.” Supposedly, Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security has a plan to deal with them. At least, he has been working for a year on a plan that has “six pillars.”

The first pillar focuses on increasing resources and touts the addition of “2,000 additional non-uniformed personnel” to help Border Patrol process illegal aliens, the hiring of an additional 300 Border Patrol agents, increasing border surveillance, constructing new processing centers, using larger vehicles to transport illegal aliens from the border to processing centers, increasing medical [personnel] on hand, and increasing funding.

The second pillar focuses on processing illegal aliens faster.

The third centers on the establishment of new removal and parole processes.

The fourth pillar includes millions of dollars in funding to non-governmental

organizations that transport, house, and provide resources to illegal aliens.

The final two pillars of the DHS plan include efforts to target drug and human smugglers and to work with other nations within the Western Hemisphere to address the “root causes of migration.” (Emphasis added.)

I say that Mayorkas really messed up. He should have forgotten about “the root causes” and used the millions of dollars and the past year to complete a wall across the southern border. He would have had money left over to provide lights and all the electronic gadgets to completely seal the border. Mayorkas and Biden should be impeached for allowing millions of illegal immigrants to flood into the United States!

What Should We Do about the Increasing Border Encounters?

There is a state of emergency at the southern border of the United States. My long-time readers know that I have written about such a problem since the Obama administration. I supported Donald Trump in his demand that a wall/fence/barrier be built along the border, and I applauded as the fence went up. Trump also put policies in place that stopped the caravans from crossing the border. The border was more secure that it had ever been. Then Joe Biden became the President, and everything changed.

Biden stopped construction on the border fence/wall on his first day in office, and he cancelled the border security policies as quickly as he could. The last – or one of the last – policies is Title 42. It was set to expire last night, but a court case took it to the Supreme Court.

In a 5-4 ruling yesterday, the Justices put a temporary block on ending Title 42. There was a bit of a surprise in the votes by the various Justices. Chief Justice John Roberts joined Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Clarence Thomas to block the termination of Title 42. Justice Neil Gorsuch joined Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in voting to end Title 42.

Title 42 is a policy invoked by former President Donald Trump. According to Jarrett Stepman at the Daily Signal, it “is a health policy implemented by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. When implemented, it enabled “the quick deportation of illegal immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Stepman has an interesting description for Title 42. 

The administration has used Title 42 as a sort of political football. It maintains the policy when convenient, then announces it will drop it to appease open-borders activists. The law will remain on the books for the time being, but it’s clear the administration won’t employ it aggressively, nor will it take other serious steps to get illegal immigration under control.

Title 42 works well when it is used correctly, but the Biden administration has reduced its effectiveness even while keeping it on the books. For example, Stepman gave the following information that Conn Carroll of the Washington Examiner shared on Twitter.

11/20: 71,929 border encounters, 88% denied entry through Title 42.

11/21: 174,845 border encounters, 51% denied entry through Title 42.

11/22: 233,740 border encounters, 29% denied entry through Title 42.

The above numbers show that the border crisis is escalating and becoming worse as the days pass. From the looks of things, the numbers of border encounters will continue to increase until the Biden administration finally acts for the good of the nation.  Stepman continued:

There are now tens of thousands of people massed around border checkpoints. The Department of Homeland Security predicted that 12,000 to 14,000 people a day could attempt unlawful border crossings every day if Title 42 were dropped. Even half of that number would be staggering.

What’s been made clear, from the moment President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, is that this administration isn’t serious about border enforcement. On Day One, he dropped the Remain in Mexico policy that forced asylum claims.

Like Title 42, that policy remains stuck in an ongoing legal battle. The policy prevented a pileup of people coming over the border and deterred bogus asylum claims.

Republicans could do something about the border, but they seem to be of the same opinion as Biden. There were eighteen Republicans in the Senate and nine in the House who voted for the omnibus bill and bailing out sanctuary cities. Americans should be grateful for the Supreme Court ruling in favor of retaining Title 42 and the nineteen Republican states who sought to keep it in place.  With Title 42 remaining in place for a few more months, there should be a few border crossers who get deported.

What Will Biden Do with Title 42?

The Biden administration has stopped nearly all of the Trump administration policies that gave Americans the most secure border in U.S. history. The last policy is about to go the way of the others, but the U.S. Supreme Court gave us a few days of breathing room. On Monday, the Supreme Court halted the expiration of a Trump-era COVID-19 policy that allows Border Patrol to quickly remove illegal immigrants from the United States.

Virginia Allen at The Daily Signal explained that the “policy, known as Title 42, was set to expire Wednesday” due to a U.S. District Court’s order to repeal the policy by December 21. However, the U.S. Supreme Court put a temporary stay on the order. The news broke about 5:00 p.m.  EST yesterday. The stay allows Customs and Border Protection agents to “continue using their authority under Title 42 to turn asylum-seekers away at the border until the court issues a further ruling clarifying the law.” 

Both Republicans and Democrats expressed concerns prior to Monday’s ruling about what will happen if/when Title 42 expires. Governor Greg Abbott of Texas said, “Texas and other states are insisting that the Court leave Title 42 in place. Today’s order is a step in that direction. This helps prevent illegal immigration.”

Democrat Mayor Oscar Leeser of El Paso, Texas, declared a state of emergency for his city over the weekend. While doing so, he explained that the city does not have the resources to handle a surge of illegal aliens crossing the border.

“As we see the increase in asylum-seekers into our community, and we see the temperatures dropping and we know that Title 42 looks like it’s going to be called back on Wednesday, we felt it was the proper time today to call the state of emergency.”

[Leeser added that] he called the state of emergency because “our asylum-seekers are not safe, as we have hundreds and hundreds on the street and that’s not the way we want to treat people.”

Leeser is not the only Democrat to discuss the problems with too many asylum-seekers coming into the United States. New York City Mayor Eric Adams also spoke of the strain that illegal immigrants put on his city.

“Our shelter system is full, and we are nearly out of money, staff, and space,” Adams said.

“Truth be told, if corrective measures are not taken soon, we may very well be forced to cut or curtail programs New Yorkers rely on, and the pathway to house thousands more is uncertain,” the New York City mayor added. “These are not choices we want to make, but they may become necessary, and I refuse to be forced to choose new arrivals over current New Yorkers. I’ll say it again – we need a plan, we need assistance, and we need it now.”

Mayor Adams was supported by New York City Council Member Robert Holden, another Democrat, who told Fox 5 New York yesterday that New York City is out of room. “There’s just no place to put them,” Holden said of the migrants. “And our homeless situation, our shelters are bursting at the seams, like I said, this is a critical situation.” He added that “the president must use his executive powers to extend Title 42. It’s as simple as that.”

The problem is that the situation is not “as simple as that.” The Biden administration wants the illegal immigrants to overrun the United States and overwhelm the systems of the states and nation. While campaigning for the office of President of the United States, he told the world that they should surge our borders if they were seeking asylum, and his administration has not done anything to stop the surge.

The mainstream media has aided the Biden administration in that they have refused to report on the problem. Bill Melugin of Fox News has been the only national reporter reporting on the problem for nearly two years. Two days ago, Melugin shared a post on Twitter showing an overcrowded Border Patrol processing center in El Paso. “The post reads that Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, took the video Friday when “4,600 migrants were in federal custody” in a center with the capacity to hold 1,040.

Mayor Leeser of El Paso is worried that the number of illegal aliens crossing the border will double if/when Title 42 is lifted.

Members of Congress from both parties are also making comments. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “The president needs to use every bit of power he has as an executive to find a way or ask for an extension.” He continued, “The president can basically, I think, ask for that extension. I think his administration is doing that or will do that. I sure hope they do. But we need an extension until we can get a viable answer for this.”

Republican governors, senators, and representatives have been calling for the administration to do something for the past two years. Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote on Twitter on Monday that Title 42 is “the last line of defense to combat rampant illegal immigration. And what are Democrats in the House doing today to stop it from ending? Nothing.”

Migrants have been surging the southern border for the past two years even with Title 42 in place. Reports from Customs and Border Protection say that there were “over 2 million encounters with illegal aliens at the border in fiscal year 2022, which ended Sept. 30.” In addition, “Border Patrol encountered 230,678 illegal aliens at the southern border” in October 2022. This is “an increase of more than 65,000 from last October.” The number of encounters for November 2022 are not yet available. 

What Will the New America Look Like?

            The flood of migrants crossing America’s southern border will soon become much worse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced recently that Title 42 will end on May 23, 2022. This public health policy has been only one of several policies to control the border, and it has been effective in turning migrants back into Mexico. The administrative rule was put in place by the administration of President Donald Trump. It allowed U.S. authorities to quickly deport migrants with COVID-19 during the pandemic.

            Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis are fighting back against the federal busing of migrants into their states. DeSantis threatened to send migrants to Delaware, the home state of President Joe Biden, while Abbott threatens to send them to the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building. Jarrett Stepman had the following to say about their moves. 

“To help local officials whose communities re being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the administration, Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington, D.C.,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at a Wednesday press conference.

That may not resolve the issue, but at least it sends a message to Washington that this is a Washington-caused crisis that’s becoming intolerable for beleaguered border states.

            According to a White House spokesperson, the federal government, not states, has the responsibility to enforce America’s immigration laws. As noted by Stepman, the use of the word “enforcement” seems like a bad word for the spokesperson to use because the federal government is not enforcing America’s immigration laws. The use of this word may come back to bite the administration.

            The number of migrants coming across the border is huge – more than a million people coming into the United States illegally during the first year of the Biden administration. That number, plus the anticipated number after Title 42 ends, is anticipated to bring sixty million illegal immigrants into the United States during the four years of the Biden administration. Sixty million undocumented migrants will cause numerous changes in America. There were 326.69 million people in the United States in 2018, so 60 million people amounts to an enormous number of additional people – people who do not speak English and cannot legally work in the United States.

What Is Happening at The Border?

            I have not written lately about the illegal immigration problem at America’s southern border. My lack of writing about it was not because the problem went away, but it was because there were so many other problems to discuss.

            More than two million people have entered the United States illegally since Joe Biden entered the White House. There were more than 200,000 arrests at the border in July 2020, the highest number in one month in more than twenty-one years. In February 2022, there were 164,973 by Border Patrol with undocumented immigrants at the border. This number shows that the numbers are going up and down but staying high. It also ends an entire year of monthly numbers being more than 150,000. 

            As bad as problem at the border is now, the situation may become worse soon. Right now, Title 42 is in force but could soon end. Title 42 was created by the Trump administration to allow undocumented immigrants to be immediately deported due to COVID-19. It was meant to protect public health during a pandemic, and the Biden administration kept it in place. With COVID-19 restrictions decreasing, activist groups and politicians are calling for an end to the rule.

            The federal government is responsible to maintain a secure border and uphold the laws of the land. Under the Biden administration, the border is like a sieve, and millions of people are entering the United States illegally. As bad as the border problem is now, it can become worse!