{"id":23162,"date":"2020-07-06T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:23:07","slug":"covid-19-border-security-mexico-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/07\/06\/covid-19-border-security-mexico-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Border State Governors Call for Tighter Border Controls. Open Borders Advocates Don\u2019t Seem to Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The governors of several border states are \u201casking for tighter border enforcement to keep their communities safe,\u201d amid the coronavirus crisis, reports the Washington Post<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe situation is very bad in Texas and [cross-border\ntravel] would only bring us problems in northern Tamaulipas,\u201d said Javier\nGarc\u00eda Cabeza de Vaca, the governor of Tamaulipas. (You probably thought it was\nU.S. border state governors calling for tighter border control. LOL!) Garcia\nCabeza de Vaca\u2019s sentiments were echoed by Sonora\u2019s health minister, Enrique\nClausen who warned, \u201cIt\u2019s so important to implement the necessary measures to\nprotect the health of Sonorans. And one of them, at this moment, has to be\nreducing the border crossings from the United States toward Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response these efforts by high ranking Mexican government\nofficials to stop the flow of Americans entering Mexico, the broad and\nmassively-funded coalition of American open borders advocacy groups had this to\nsay: \u201cZzzzzzzzzz.\u201d The ACLU is expected to file a lawsuit to stop this blatant\nprofiling of Americans within 48 hours of Hell freezing over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The calls by Mexican state officials to halt the flow of Americans heading south, however, has not stopped other Mexican officials from demanding that the U.S. cease deportations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy are they continuing these deportations in the middle of a deadly pandemic, including people who are already sick and who knows how many asymptomatic people?\u201d Maki Ortiz, the mayor of the Mexican city Reynosa, demanded to know in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the matter of sending people crossing into the United States illegally during a health crisis, the open borders advocacy did register a strongly held opinion. \u201cWe call on the Trump Administration to immediately rescind its policy of shutting the border to individuals seeking asylum, halt all deportations, and release immigrants currently in detention,\u201d a coalition of 60 advocacy groups stated in an April letter<\/a> outlining their demands to keep the northbound flow of migrants wide open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mexican officials calling for restrictions on people entering their country is, of course, perfectly legitimate given the surging number of COVID-19 cases in Texas, Arizona and California. Protecting public health and safety should be their top priority. Oddly, however, that logic does not seem to apply in reverse. Efforts by the U.S. federal government or by state officials to discourage people from crossing our borders in order to protect public health and safety are universally greeted with moral outrage and lawsuits. Of course, a lot of things don\u2019t make sense these days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The governors of several border states are \u201casking for tighter border enforcement to keep their communities safe,\u201d amid the coronavirus crisis, reports the Washington Post. \u201cThe situation is very bad in Texas and [cross-border travel] would only bring us problems in northern Tamaulipas,\u201d said Javier Garc\u00eda Cabeza de Vaca, the governor of Tamaulipas. (You probably<\/p>\n

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