{"id":362983,"date":"2021-03-31T21:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=362983"},"modified":"2021-03-31T21:46:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:46:33","slug":"9th-circuit-court-loopholes-lead-to-largest-migrant-surge-in-15-years-at-u-s-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9th-circuit-court-loopholes-lead-to-largest-migrant-surge-in-15-years-at-u-s-border\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Circuit Court loopholes lead to largest migrant surge in 15 years at U.S. 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\">30<\/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%2F9th-circuit-court-loopholes-lead-to-largest-migrant-surge-in-15-years-at-u-s-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=362983&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--><div id=\"attachment_2393189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants aiming to reach the U.S. walked along a highway as they left San Pedro Sula, Honduras before dawn Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo\/Delmer Martinez)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:35 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, March 31, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The current border crisis is coming to a tipping point after years of poor legislation which has created loopholes for migrants entering the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Homeland Security, before 2011 most illegal migrant apprehensions were of single adults from Mexico. However, last month less than 70 percent of migrants were single adults, and nearly 10 percent were unaccompanied minors.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has refused to denounce the surge as a \u201ccrisis,\u201d and they continue to roll back on Trump administration policies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2393190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2393190\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2393190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4937.jpeg\" alt=\"Young children rest inside a pod at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The children are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods had more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility at the border for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping. (AP Photo\/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4937.jpeg 655w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4938.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4939.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4940.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young children rest inside a pod at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo\/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The National Border Patrol Council said they are seeing the situation grow out of hand in real-time, and believe Border Patrol officers are being overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing on the border is a true border crisis where we\u2019re seeing a lot of human misery and a lot of human suffering. We\u2019re seeing unaccompanied children coming across the border, that are coming without their parents,\u201d Hector Garza, president of the National Border Patrol Council said. \u201cThat means that they make the journey from their countries into the United States without a guardian, or someone to take care of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One loophole in policy dated back to 1997 under the Clinton administration, which created the Flores Settlement Agreement. This agreement encouraged border facilities to shelter migrants and eventually release them, which brought on a surge of families crossing the border, rather than single adults. This, in turn, added strain to facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration responded by detaining families in unlicensed facilities across the country. However, the judge overseeing the settlement ruled this was in violation of the Flores agreement. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed his order in July 2016, calling for children and their parents to be released within 20 days of detainment.<\/p>\n<p>Another loophole was the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act in 2008, which distinguished Canadian and Mexican immigrants from everyone else. Under the law, Canadian and Mexican immigrants can be turned away if they aren\u2019t seeking asylum, while those from other countries are sent directly to the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration sought to fix flaws in the immigration process by creating policies like the Migrant Protection Program and implementing Title 42 to return migrants to their home countries if their appeal was denied.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2393191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2393191\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2393191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4941.jpeg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - Migrants part of the Remain in Mexico policy wait at the entrance to the Paso del Norte International Bridge on February 28, 2020, in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez. - Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as the Remain in Mexico Policy was blocked by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, seeming to halt a policy which drastically reduced the amount of border crossings. However, the court later granted the Trump Administration a stay on the program, for fear of creating an influx on the southern border. (Photo by Paul Ratje \/ AFP) (Photo by PAUL RATJE\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4941.jpeg 655w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4942.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4943.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4944.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TOPSHOT \u2013 Migrants part of the Remain in Mexico policy waited at the entrance to the Paso del Norte International Bridge on February 28, 2020, in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez.&nbsp; (Photo by PAUL RATJE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joe Biden has diminished most of these policies, despite pushback from lawmakers and a group of GOP attorneys general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s two major reasons why we\u2019re seeing this crisis, and that\u2019s because of the changes in the Biden policies in regards to immigration,\u201d Garza said.<br \/>\u201cThat\u2019s the changes to Migrant Protection Protocols or MPP, and the changes to Title 42.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Border Patrol facilities reported they are preparing to see an influx of migrants for the next several months, as the numbers rise to a 15-year high.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/chauvin-trial-day-3-jurors-eyewitnesses-watch-body-cam-surveillance-footage\/\"> Chauvin Trial Day 3: Jurors, Eyewitnesses Watch Body Cam, Surveillance Footage<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrants aiming to reach the U.S. walked along a highway as they left San Pedro Sula, Honduras before dawn Tuesday, March 30, 2021. 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