{"id":1421300,"date":"2022-04-06T08:01:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421300"},"modified":"2022-04-06T08:01:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:01:26","slug":"faced-with-a-coming-wave-of-illegal-immigration-bidens-plan-is-simply-to-open-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faced-with-a-coming-wave-of-illegal-immigration-bidens-plan-is-simply-to-open-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Faced With A Coming Wave Of Illegal Immigration, Biden\u2019s Plan Is Simply To Open The Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffaced-with-a-coming-wave-of-illegal-immigration-bidens-plan-is-simply-to-open-the-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421300&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The southern border is about to explode, and federal authorities are making preparations \u2014 not to arrest, detain, and deport record numbers of illegal border-crossers, but to process them quickly and release them into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>How do we know? Two developments in recent days have revealed the White House\u2019s scheme to handle the busiest time of year on the southwest border amid a record-breaking streak of illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it will rescind Title 42 effective May 23. Title 42 is the public health order invoked by President Trump during the Covid-19 lockdowns and partially continued under President Biden. It\u2019s one of the only reasons illegal immigration, which hit record levels last year, wasn\u2019t much worse than it could have been. It was, in effect, the last remaining tool federal border officials had to control illegal immigration, and next month it will be gone.<\/p>\n<p>By making it relatively easy for border officials to expel illegal border-crossers without processing them for deportation, Title 42 helped avert a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe at the border. For the past two years, Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers were empowered simply to send certain classes of illegal immigrants (mostly single adults and some family units) back over the border to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Ending Title 42 means a return to the pre-Covid process, which allows almost anyone who crosses the border, even those who cross illegally, to file a claim for asylum. Because Biden effectively shut down a Trump-era program called the Migrant Protection Protocols (also called Remain in Mexico) that forced migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum cases were adjudicated, most migrants who claim asylum will be released into the United States pending the outcome of their cases, which on average take about three years.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, ending Title 42 under these circumstances means every migrant who gets over the border and claims asylum will get to remain in the United States, legally and with work authorization, for years. As a matter of policy, it is effectively indistinguishable from open borders.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration understandably doesn\u2019t want the American people to know this, to understand the details and what it means for the country. Uncontrolled illegal immigration is after all extremely unpopular, even among Democrat voters.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the administration is trying to portray what amounts to a\u00a0<em>de facto<\/em>\u00a0open borders policy as border enforcement and security. CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus this week\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/speeches-and-statements\/statement-us-customs-and-border-protection-commissioner-chris\">issued a statement<\/a>\u00a0designed to do just that, but if you read between the lines you\u2019ll see that CBP\u2019s plan for the end of Title 42 amounts to an abdication of border security and acquiescence to open borders. Says Magnus:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Throughout our agency\u2019s history we have capably managed immigration at the border utilizing the authorities under Title 8 of the US Code (traditional immigration management authorities). These authorities allow non-citizens appropriate access to make asylum claims and include a range of enforcement options to hold individuals accountable for entering the U.S. illegally.\u00a0\u00a0This means most individuals who cross the border without legal authorization will be promptly placed in removal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the CDC\u2019s termination of its Title 42 public health order, we will likely face an increase in encounters above the current high levels.\u00a0\u00a0There are a significant number of individuals who were unable to access the asylum system for the past two years, and who may decide that now is the time to come.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot to unpack here, but note the last sentence about migrants being \u201cunable to access the asylum system.\u201d The implication is that if illegal immigration surges, it\u2019s because of\u00a0<em>pent-up demand<\/em>\u00a0for asylum, not because Biden\u2019s policies encouraged illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>But that argument makes no sense given the record numbers of arrests at the southwest border since Biden came into office. Those include more than 2 million last year, an all-time record since CBP began tracking border apprehensions decades ago. Whatever pent-up demand there was has been met, and what we\u2019re seeing now is\u00a0<em>increased demand <\/em>driven almost entirely by Biden\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>If illegal crossings surge in the coming months, as everyone expects them to, it\u2019s because of what Magnus says at the end of that first quoted paragraph above: \u201cmost individuals who cross the border without legal authorization will be promptly placed in removal proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most Americans might think a term like \u201cremoval proceedings\u201d means timely deportation of an illegal immigrant, but it doesn\u2019t. Given the backlog in our immigration courts, removal proceedings amount to a legal backdoor into the United States. <\/p>\n<p>The University of Syracuse keeps an ongoing tally of federal immigration data through a research center called the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC. According to TRAC, out of 11,664 completed immigration court proceedings so far this year, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trac.syr.edu\/phptools\/immigration\/court_backlog\/court_proctime_outcome.php\">average time to completion<\/a>\u00a0is 1,105 days, or more than three years. (That\u2019s more than double the amount of time on average it took to adjudicate cases during the Trump presidency.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/TRAC.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/TRAC.png 744w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/TRAC-300x157.png 300w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"col-12 col-md-6 body-xs px-15 pe-md-0 ps-md-30 py-15 m-0 text-center\"><strong>Immigration Court Processing Time by Outcome<\/strong><br \/><strong>by Removals, Voluntary Departures, Terminations, Relief, Administrative Closures<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In practice, that means a migrant who crosses the border illegally, gets arrested by Border Patrol, claims asylum, and is then released into the United States with a court date will have about three years to live and work in the United States before an immigration judge ever issues an order for removal.<\/p>\n<p>Given Magnus\u2019s emphasis on \u201cremoval proceedings,\u201d then, it appears the entire federal immigration enforcement apparatus in the coming months will be focused on processing and releasing into the United States as many migrants as possible as fast as possible. <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in a long list of bullet points outlining everything CBP is doing to prepare, we see things like, \u201cShifting Border Patrol agents and CBP officers from other locations to assist at the border\u2026 Increasing the number of ICE personnel working alongside CBP personnel to assist in processing migrants\u2026 Activating other DHS personnel who have volunteered to temporarily work on the border\u2026 Maximizing the use of air and ground transportation to move migrants from sectors that are over capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it\u2019s all hands on deck for the federal immigration bureaucracy, but the urgent task is to\u00a0<em>process and transport and release migrants<\/em>, not arrest, detain, and deport them.<\/p>\n<p>We also see, further down Magnus\u2019s list, a plan to increase the \u201cefficiency\u201d of the asylum system \u201cby restarting normal asylum-seeker processing at ports of entry and working with other DHS partners to decrease the length of these processes (<em>this is being done, in part, by adopting a new rule to expedite processing by asylum officers<\/em>).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Biden administration announced a sweeping new rule that will allow asylum officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to adjudicate asylum claims instead of immigration judges at the Justice Department. The idea behind the new rule is to ease pressure on overburdened immigration courts, but as Andrew Arthur and Robert Law of the Center for Immigration Studies\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Arthur\/Biden-Administration-Finalizes-Plan-RubberStamp-Asylum-Grants\">noted recently<\/a>, it\u2019s really \u201ca plan to rubberstamp asylum grants and hide the disaster at the Southwest border by turning \u2018illegal aliens\u2019 into \u2018asylum seekers\u2019 with the stroke of a pen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Arthur and Law explain:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-left\">\n<p>Under law prior to this most recent announcement, only IJs [immigration judges] could grant asylum to aliens apprehended at the border who were then placed into \u2018expedited removal\u2019 proceedings, and then only at the end of formal removal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>In those proceedings, the alien respondent was allowed to present evidence (including testimony) concerning his or her asylum claim. During that presentation of evidence, an ICE attorney representing the interests of the American people was allowed to cross-examine and impeach the alien respondent, offer contradictory evidence, and appeal an erroneous asylum grant.<\/p>\n<p>Under the administration\u2019s new rule\u2026 those procedural safeguards are thrown out the window. The AO [asylum officer] elicits the alien\u2019s claim during a \u2018non-adversarial\u2019 interview during which the alien is allowed to have an attorney (but you, the American people, aren\u2019t). If the AO grants asylum, even contrary to law, logic, and the weight of the evidence, that\u2019s it. There is no ICE lawyer to appeal that decision.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet CBP\u2019s plans for the coming surge at the border, however misguided they are, might be irrelevant long before Title 42 ends on May 23. The sheer number of illegal immigrants coming across the border might well overwhelm CBP officers and facilities, even with extra help from ICE and DHS.<\/p>\n<p>Already, the number of arrests at the border has forced mass releases of adult migrants. Bill Melugin of Fox News has been documenting these so-called \u201cparole releases\u201d in south Texas for weeks now, reporting that hundreds of migrants are being released in border towns like Brownsville every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"yM6B84aVEAPljND\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yet another mass release of single adult migrants from federal custody at this parking garage in Brownsville. Fourth bus today. First the women get off, then the men. We\u2019ve seen zero children\/minors released. BP sources tell me they\u2019ve been releasing hundreds here daily. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xdCaNz7Pvz\">pic.twitter.com\/xdCaNz7Pvz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillFOXLA\/status\/1511425188839235586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They are being released, in most cases, with a notice to report to a local ICE office whenever they get to where they\u2019re going. In some cases, they are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillFOXLA\/status\/1511354961036197902?s=20&#038;t=9jIalFYj7xuhgM3z5msfHw\">being given phones<\/a>\u00a0to communicate with ICE. This means they don\u2019t even have court dates, and have not even filed asylum claims.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the system is overwhelmed right now, with Title 42 still in place. Between now and the end of May, things are going to get much worse.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. 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