Illegal US Border Crossings Hit New Low
Weekly US Border Newsletter
THE WEEK’S US BORDER NEWS IN BRIEF:
CBP releases July data showing migration hitting new low at the border: Due to the unavailability of asylum and word of a growing crackdown throughout the U.S. interior, the number of migrants entering CBP custody at the border in July fell again, to a level not seen since the 1960s.
Zero asylum seekers were released from custody at the border, while Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector saw the most migrant apprehensions. Fentanyl seizures continue to decline sharply, while cocaine seizures are rising.
Notes on “mass deportation”: DHS made striking, and hard-to-verify, claims about the number of undocumented migrants choosing to leave the United States voluntarily, and the number of people signing up for employment with ICE. Some of the agency’s online recruitment messaging evoked 20th-century White supremacist themes. Several controversies, including growing public health concerns, surrounded the Florida state migrant detention facility in the Everglades.
Notes from Mexico: The New York Times followed fentanyl smugglers and found evidence of corruption on both sides of the border. Groups that preyed on migrants in Ciudad Juárez are now preying on the local population and getting more involved in street drug sales. A migrant “caravan” in Chiapas does not seek to reach the United States but intends only to gain the right to live and work elsewhere in Mexico.
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FINALLY, IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:
(Stories covered by US Border News during the past week)
Six Mexican States are "No Go" Zones
Illegal population drop also noted
Cartel smugglers shift to Texas
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Jack Beavers
While the ICE rhetoric, and actions, may sometimes be reminiscent of 20th century racism and xenophobia, I'd like to remind everyone below a certain age that it was historically Democrats, specifically union labor proponents, who propagated these narratives. And also that we're in a different era now, in which some ethnic paranoia has proven true [just look at Western Europe]. And also that you'd be hard pressed to find a better example of multicultural harmony than in the US military, despite the inherent difficulties of integrating humanity's crooked timber in the infantry. Yes, there are some neo-Nazis, and there are some closet jihadis; but for the most part, the enforced discipline creates lifelong bonds between people of different races, creeds, and social backgrounds who would otherwise never interact voluntarily.
It is merely a matter of switching tactics that modern Dems and union leaders endorse migrants; and for some odd reason seem incapable of discerning legal entries from illegals. They haven't suddenly grown a moral conscience, or they would recognize that illegals compete with legals for the same jobs, as well as competing with native workers. And curiously, the very same folks who don't know what's wrong with illegal migration also can't explain why voter ID is racist, as if it's not racist to require ID to drive, fly, open a bank account, or any other civic responsibility.
As far as the migrant caravan being allowed to stay and work in Mexico: Good luck! Mexicans are even less hospitable to their southern neighbors than we are. The only reason they've been tolerating the caravans during the Biden years was because of the massive logistical system that was put in place to guarantee that anyone from anywhere who crossed Mexico's southern border would successfully cross the northern border a short time later. The idea that ANY of the previous administration's policy [or Mexico's policy] was humanitarian is highly suspicious. My travels in Latin America have opened my eyes to the hostility between any nation and its poorer neighbors, let alone fighting-age males from every squalid combat zone on Earth.