{"id":24307,"date":"2021-03-23T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24307"},"modified":"2021-03-23T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:40:22","slug":"how-to-solve-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/03\/23\/how-to-solve-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Answer to Slowing the Border Surge is Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Washington Post <\/em>is on a roll. A piece published in their Monkey Cage<\/a> analysis section tells us that \u201cThere\u2019s no migrant \u2018surge\u2019 at the U.S. southern border<\/a>.\u201d Ignoring historic highs surpassing the 2019 surge (which the same paper called a crisis<\/a>), the authors take the position that the current surge is simply reflecting seasonal trends. It gets better. The authors write, \u201cwe analyzed monthly CBP [Customs and Border Protection] data from 2012 to now and found no crisis or surge that can be attributed to Biden administration policies<\/strong>\u201d (emphasis added). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is, of course, patently false. It is laughably false. The Biden administration all but admitted their policies caused the surge in asylum-seeking aliens when Roberta Jacobson, Biden\u2019s border czar, said that \u201cmigrants respond to hope<\/a>\u201d \u2013 the hope being Joe Biden\u2019s election as president after months of promising citizenship for every illegal alien<\/a> present in the country. The Post\u2019s <\/em>Monkey Cage is merely acting as an arm of the Biden administration\u2019s communications team by regurgitating Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas\u2019 assertion that the border surge is not a crisis, but merely a challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another piece published on the same day, the Post <\/em>reports that the \u201cBiden team [is]searching for new ways to slow [the]border surge<\/a>.\u201d Of course, none of the suggestions floated by the Biden administration would slow the surge. While it is anathema to the political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Biden\u2019s team in the White House, the answer to controlling the current border crisis is to adopt the previous administration\u2019s policies that ended the 2019 crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In three steps, the Biden\nadministration could curtail the current crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, reinstate the Migrant\nProtection Protocols (MPP), commonly referred to as the Remain-in-Mexico\npolicy. Under MPP, CBP kept asylum-seeking migrants in Mexico while their\nasylum cases navigated through the immigration courts. This allowed migrants to\napply for asylum, but prevented them from establishing roots in the United\nStates. Our immigration courts reject the majority of asylum claims, and\nletting illegal aliens live in the U.S. for years and years until their final\nrejection is simply not a sound way to treat people who have no legitimate\nbusiness living in the United States. In many cases, those who are in the\nUnited States remain here even after they asylum claims have been denied. The\nRemain-in-Mexico policy was particularly effective at dramatically reducing the\n2019 border surge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, reinstate the individual\nasylum agreements that the U.S. entered into with Honduras, Guatemala, and El\nSalvador. These agreements acted as de facto <\/em>\u201csafe third country\u201d\ntreaties. Any migrant from the Northern Triangle countries had to first apply\nfor asylum in another country before coming to the United States. Any alien\narriving to the U.S. border without having done so could not qualify for\nasylum. Like MPP, this helped the Trump administration wind down the 2019\nsurge, but the effects of these agreements took some months to fully\nmaterialize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, reinstate Title 42<\/a> for unaccompanied alien children (UAC). The Trump administration invoked Title 42 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing our border authorities to remove all aliens apprehended at the southern border. Biden kept Title 42 in place for adults and family units, but strangely ended it for UACs. Unsurprisingly, Central American families, human traffickers, and coyotes responded by sending as many children as they could to the southern border, confident that they could enter the United States. The result is devastating and playing out before us at this very moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solving the border crisis will take\ntime, but it is not rocket science. If the Biden administration is actually\nserious about ending this surge, they need look no further than the previous\nadministration\u2019s policies, policies which they ended. The cessation of MPP and\nthe Northern Triangle asylum agreements, plus Biden\u2019s campaign promises,\ncreated this mess. The only way to fix it is to reinstate them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post is on a roll. A piece published in their Monkey Cage analysis section tells us that \u201cThere\u2019s no migrant \u2018surge\u2019 at the U.S. southern border.\u201d Ignoring historic highs surpassing the 2019 surge (which the same paper called a crisis), the authors take the position that the current surge is simply reflecting seasonal<\/p>\n

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