{"id":21486,"date":"2019-05-15T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21486"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:33:58","slug":"the-migrant-surge-takes-flight-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/05\/15\/the-migrant-surge-takes-flight-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Migrant Surge Takes Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With migrants <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/latino\/443640-photos-show-children-sleeping-on-ground-at-texas-border-patrol-station\" target=\"_blank\">sleeping on the ground<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/31\/us\/el-paso-bridge-migrants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">penned up under a bridge<\/a>, news that the U.S. Border Patrol is putting them on planes is yet another sign of America\u2019s border breakdown. Note: These flights are <em>not<\/em> headed south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has started running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmtonline.com\/news\/article\/Border-detention-cells-in-Texas-are-so-13837856.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">daily flights<\/a> from the Rio Grande Valley, where shelters are maxed out. At $16,000 per trip \u2013 about $120 per migrant \u2013 the overwhelmed CBP is scrambling to ensure that adult migrants don\u2019t slip through the cracks as agents process an increasing number of \u201cfamily units.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking\nto the air because all its buses are being utilized, CBP is flying migrants to Laughlin Air Force Base near Del Rio for\nprocessing. Family units with no criminal history or illnesses are released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/03\/20\/with-coyotes-and-greyhounds-illegal-aliens-ride-deeper-into-u-s-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">commercial buses<\/a> transport migrants to points north, east and west. Dispersing before hearings on their asylum status, it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess how many will actually show up in court. The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/eoir\/page\/file\/1107056\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Department of Justice<\/a> statistics indicate that 28 percent of illegal aliens released into the U.S. failed to appear. It\u2019s likely that percentage has increased since the 2017 report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowing\nto chronic overcrowding, CBP in recent weeks began releasing migrants directly,\ninstead of waiting for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to pick\nthem up and detain them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nBorder Patrol apprehended 109,144 migrants at the Mexico border last month, the\nhighest total since 2007. More than 60 percent of them were families or\nchildren. Now planes are being deployed to launch their journey into America\u2019s\ninterior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This\nis the worst I have ever seen it, by far,&#8221; said one veteran Border Patrol\nagent in South Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With migrants sleeping on the ground and penned up under a bridge, news that the U.S. Border Patrol is putting them on planes is yet another sign of America\u2019s border breakdown. Note: These flights are not headed south. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has started running daily flights from the Rio Grande Valley, where<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/05\/15\/the-migrant-surge-takes-flight-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":16074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[1490,1093,1242,1524],"yst_prominent_words":[5614,2043,2042,4971,2300,4099,1970,4544,5613,2188,2120,5612,1925,3465,3611,1939,3222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21487,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21486\/revisions\/21487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21486"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}