{"id":21533,"date":"2019-05-30T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21533"},"modified":"2019-05-30T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:10:16","slug":"the-migrant-surge-has-knocked-the-sense-out-of-some-new-mexicans-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/05\/30\/the-migrant-surge-has-knocked-the-sense-out-of-some-new-mexicans-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Migrant Surge Has Knocked The Sense Out Of Some New Mexicans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Confirming Americans\u2019 darkest suspicions, the Department of Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS) admitted last week that \u201c100 percent\u201d of adults illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are being released into the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Acting DHS Secretary\nKevin McAleenan told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the Border\nPatrol merely acts as a checkpoint for so-called \u201cfamily units\u201d heading north. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the last week alone, nearly 8,000 border crossers and\nillegal aliens were released into the country, including those not even\nrequesting asylum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n McAleenan said adult migrants are given work permits\nallowing them to take American jobs while they await their immigration court\nhearings, oftentimes two years down the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Working or otherwise, the initial waves of migrants are inundating communities across the southwest. New Mexico<\/a> is one of the hardest hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Las Cruces, an hour north of the border city of El Paso,\nmore than 6,500 migrants have been dropped off by the Border Patrol since\nmid-April. Deming, a town of 14,000, received 2,400 migrants, sheltering up to\n700 at a time in the local fairgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the capital in Santa Fe, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan\nGrisham offered to pay bus fare to send sojourners on to Denver. She also\nannounced the state will offer grants to defray costs incurred by local\ngovernments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is our duty as a state, in the absence of a comprehensive shift in strategy and personnel deployment on the part of the federal government, to accommodate and facilitate the needs of both these asylum seekers and the local communities where they are being released,\u201d she wrote in a letter<\/a> to Republican state lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lujan Grisham\u2019s call to duty was a rich one. Earlier this year, the Democrat irresponsibly pulled National Guard troops back from the border<\/a> and reposted a campaign video of her galloping through a thin wall of sheet rock in a mockery of President Trump\u2019s call for a border barricade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n