{"id":24415,"date":"2021-04-19T11:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24415"},"modified":"2021-04-19T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:27:46","slug":"biden-100-days-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/04\/19\/biden-100-days-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of the Border Crisis Were Planted on the Campaign Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\nnumber of migrants apprehended at the border and unaccompanied minors in U.S.\ngovernment care has reached record levels, but was it inevitable?  What caused this crisis, how do we end it and\nwhat policies will prevent another humanitarian disaster occurring in the\nfuture. In this series of blogs, FAIR aims to tell the story and outline\nsolutions. For more in-depth analysis and insight into immigration policy,\nplease visit www.fairus.org<\/a>\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political candidates make promises. It is their DNA. Yet,\nmost campaign pledges don\u2019t encourage thousands of individuals in foreign\nnations to come to our borders and break our immigration laws. That is precisely\nwhat candidate Joe Biden did when he spent months on the campaign trail talking\nabout de-prioritizing immigration enforcement, promising amnesty and expanding\nmany government entitlements to foreign nationals illegally residing in the\nU.S. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Democratic primary race set the stage with proclamations about making a hard shift away from sensible and responsible immigration policies. Then-Sen. Kamala Harris boasted<\/a> about opposing the Obama-Biden deportation record and an order she issued as California\u2019s attorney general to ignore<\/a> Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Biden and Harris loudly and proudly proclaimed their intent, if elected, to end Trump-era enforcement policies and even some Obama-Biden administration policies, particularly on deportations and sanctuary cities<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading the charge to dismantle the system was candidate Biden, who embraced granting health care<\/a> to illegal aliens, pausing deportations<\/a> and halting construction of the southern border wall. While Biden, as a senator, voted in favor of the Secure Fence Act, he made clear during an August 2020 interview<\/a> his plans to ignore that past stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2020, FAIR released a report<\/a> which analyzed Biden\u2019s campaign promises and projected that over the coming several decades as many as 52 million immigrants could be admitted if his proposals were implemented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCampaigns are an opportunity for candidates to present to\nthe voters their vision on important policy matters\u2026But policy proposals are\nnot just words on paper. If implemented, they will have quantifiable results.\u201d\nFAIR\u2019s President Dan Stein commented at the time. \u201cThey can mean more legal and\nillegal immigration or less; greater costs to taxpayers, or less. It is\nimportant to get beyond rhetoric and look at the real-world implication of\npolicy proposals if they become law, so that voters can understand the choices\nthey are making.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But FAIR was not alone in recognizing where these drastic\npolicy shifts could lead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bipartisan Policy Center noted in a report<\/a> that Customs and Border Protection data was showing that the FY2020 border apprehension figures  were lower than those in FY2018 and FY2019, \u201cindicating that the Trump administration\u2019s policies limiting asylum access at the border and the COVID-19 pandemic made migrants\u2013especially families and children\u2013wary of traveling to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFormer Vice President Joe Biden has promised to undo many\nof Trump\u2019s hardline executive orders, raising questions about whether these trends\nwould change significantly,\u201d stated the Center\u2019s analysis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the campaign entered the final weeks, the Biden-Harris campaign left no doubt that their mission was to undo any measures strengthening border security or interior enforcement and to normalize illegal immigration. The allure of such promises were evident in the statistics showing a crisis unfolding at the border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFirst, there’s the specter of renewed chaos at the Southern border. Last year, groups as large as 1,000 Central Americans at a time waded across the Rio Grande into El Paso, Texas, to request asylum. The Border Patrol was overwhelmed and ended up detaining families in primitive, unsanitary conditions. Immigration hawks are wary that Biden would throw open the gates again,\u201d noted a September National Public Radio article<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By mid-November \u2013 when there usually is a decline in apprehensions \u2013 CBS News reported<\/a> that between November 18 and 23, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had processed 997 unaccompanied minors and more than 9,900 unaccompanied children had been taken into custody since September 8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only were more migrants heading north, \u201csmugglers are using riskier tactics to get them across\u201d the Rio Grande river, said USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everybody could see even before Joe Biden placed his hand\non the Bible to take the oath of office that drastically changing course on\nimmigration would lead to trouble. But not many realized how bad it would get. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check back in tomorrow for the second blog in this\nseries\u2026in the lead up to Biden\u2019s 100th<\/sup> day in office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To join FAIR\u2019s campaign to send a message to President Biden, Vice President Harris and Congress, <\/strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make a critical donation to FAIR\u2019s efforts to stop the Biden administration\u2019s disastrous dismantling efforts, <\/strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of migrants apprehended at the border and unaccompanied minors in U.S. government care has reached record levels, but was it inevitable?  What caused this crisis, how do we end it and what policies will prevent another humanitarian disaster occurring in the future. In this series of blogs, FAIR aims to tell the story<\/p>\n

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