For those of you who think that the southern border emergency has gone away it has not. Nothing has changed per say except that we now have the modern day version of the Mexican standoff. No fewer than 200,00 illegal aliens a month continue to stream into the U.S. from the southern border alone. In all likelihood this number could be too low because no one really knows how many are sneaking in undetected.
Keep in mind that this border emergency is just another extension of the polycrisis that the Globalist along with the aid of the Biden Administration has unleashed upon America. The ramifications of this invasion of our nation just staggers the mind!
A case of the Texas hold the line verses the Biden Administrations Welcome Wagon!
A Mauritanian (left) and Senegalese immigrant who crossed the border at Yuma, Arizona and were quickly released, at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport preparing to fly to destination cities. May 2023 photo by Todd Bensman
America’s beleaguered cities and towns, growing numbers of which are suffering unfunded inundation, do not care how the government let 200,000 aliens cross per month. They only care that they are here.Here are three ways it’s happening
AUSTIN, Texas — President Joe Biden and his top deputies are pushing shell-game accounting and the untruthful narrative that “non-citizen” crossings over the U.S. southwest border have plummeted by up to “70 percent,” so there’s nothing to see here, folks. Not so fast.
Despite the claimed success of the administration’s new “stiffer consequences” border management plan since the end of the Title 42 pandemic-era instant-expulsion policy on May 11, the historic mass migration crisis rages at full throttle into its third straight year. It rages in three ways that media outlets and even some Republican lawmakers are unwilling to see, acknowledge, or report — but I’ve witnessed all three firsthand at the southwest border.
The CBP-One Illusion
First, the Biden administration is ushering in would-be border jumpers through what it calls a “historic expansion” of granting humanitarian fast-pass entrance slips to intending border jumpers via a cell-phone app called “CBP-One.” This historically expanded program allows those who intended to cross illegally between land ports of entry to now be funneled through them and thus not be counted in the politically problematic monthly “illegal crossings” category.
The “70 percent” decline in “illegal crossings” does not mean 70 percent fewer foreign nationals entered America over the border as implied.
The administration so far has maintained the fiction of steep declines in foreign national border entries through secrecy. It will not release the granular-level CBP-One entry data that would tell Americans how many foreign nationals are crossing on bridges and through airports.
As one measure reflecting the administration’s desire to keep CBP-One entries a state secret, the administration ignored my February 2023 Freedom of Information Act request for granular breakdowns of the entries. My employer, the Center for Immigration Studies, has federally filed suit to force compliance. In a more pointed indication of intent to maintain the shell game, the administration ignored a March 2023 formal request for the CBP-One data by Republican lawmakers. That leaves the rest of us to guess and extrapolate.
Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan, now a visiting fellow for the Heritage Foundation, did some arithmetic on encounters with “inadmissible aliens” at the southern border land ports and at interior airports through which all CBP-One beneficiaries enter.
He found striking increases in port-of-entry encounters that coincide with the rollout of CBP-One. For instance, in FY 2020, encounters at these borderland and interior ports (excluding the northern border) averaged 20,148 per month during Covid and rose to 45,994 per month in FY 2022, according to Morgan’s tally. But so far in FY 2023 through April, Morgan found 81,512 per month through the same ports, most presumably benefiting from CBP-One.
And this doesn’t include the “historic increases” that the administration says it ordered for CBP-One in May. Morgan said he thinks the number of migrants going through the ports will hit 100,000 in June, a national record. Then the numbers will rise from there as the administration continues to expand CBP-One so that more than a million foreign nationals will cross sight unseen.
If we add the 80,000 presumed CBP-One recipients who enter through ports each month to the number caught in the brush — 169,244, for instance, that Border Patrol caught in the brush in May — the total comes out to a projected rate of about 250,000 in a month.
Subtracting those the administration actually deported under Title 8 and the last days of Title 42 that month, 36,000, then the total number of foreign nationals who entered over the southern border still comes in at a historic record rate of about 215,000. That falls in the historic and stratospheric territory of the Biden border crisis.
And it is smack dab in the average zone of 178,053 per month since October 2022. Since March 2021, Border Patrol’s non-port-of-entry brush apprehensions have ranged from as low as 169,000 to a high of 221,000 (December 2022), according to CBP’s public reports. For an eye-opening comparison, consider the final year of former President Donald Trump’s administration when monthly caught-in-brush numbers stood around 30,000.
America’s beleaguered cities and towns, growing numbers of which are suffering unfunded inundation, do not care how the government let 200,000 aliens cross per month. They only care that they are here.
Notwithstanding CBP-One, strong evidence suggests that rates of illegal entry through the brush, since a pause that came when the administration replaced Title 42, is now quickly growing. Immigrants have learned that the administration will reward them, not punish them as promised.
Spike in Families, Minors, and More
Second, illegal crossings of family units, unaccompanied minors, and foreign nationals from “recalcitrant countries” are on a sharp upswing. They are crossing illegally between ports after discovering that Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is not rigorously applying the promised harsh punishments of its new plan, which threatens “expedited removal” under Title 8, wholesale asylum-claim denials, prosecution, and five-year bans on legal reentry.
Large numbers of family-unit aliens who illegally crossed into Del Rio, Texas, find quick release within two days and then bus rides into the American interior with their papers and children. May 2023/Todd Bensman.
I just came back from Mexico and the Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector, which is experiencing a major surge of illegal crossings again. What I found and reported in the New York Post is that family groups in line for CBP-One finally discovered that they could abandon their spots in line, cross illegally, and still gain entrance into America with none of the promised negative consequences.
Biden’s rules do not apply to families, and so their numbers are spiking from the 25,000 monthly range in January and February to 44,900 in May. Expect torrents of them going forward. There is also evidence that unaccompanied minors are flooding in at the pre-Title 42 rate of 11,000-12,000 per month because they too are exempt from the new, supposedly tough rules.
In addition to families and solo teens who are all but guaranteed quick releases, the administration is allowing large numbers of aliens, single adults and families alike, from dozens of distant countries to go free into the United States on the same personal recognizance with notice-to-appear papers. Large spigots are open in the Yuma and in the Rio Grande Valley sectors.
During a recent layover at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, I saw hundreds of the released, like these Senegalese and Mauritanian men, waiting for flights to airports all over America. They are identifiable by the plastic bags they all carry full of DHS documents. They crossed illegally because they too learned that Biden will not back up his Title 8 tough talk. The administration is releasing thousands of extra-continental aliens every month, among them Afghans, Sudanese, Egyptians, Somalis, and more.
The reasons for their entrance may be that their home nations, like China and Afghanistan, are “recalcitrant” and will not accept them back, that U.S. facilities are full, or that the administration wants as many as possible to come in. Word of this has clearly spread all over the world as historic levels of extra-continental aliens course through the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama — an anticipated 300,000 in 2023, among them minors and families who know the administration will let them in.
More and More Got-Aways
Third, the number of runners and “got-aways” appears to have spiked since May 11.
As I recently reported from Juarez and New Mexico along the Arizona state line, a major outbreak is now underway of “runners” who hope to evade Border Patrol and enter the U.S. illegally by hiring professional human smugglers. Upon entering successfully, runners will be tallied by Border Patrol as “got-aways.”
The government does not release these numbers, but they are widely leaked and show that a surge of runners and got-aways is underway. Since Biden took office, some 1.7 million foreign nationals have become got-aways in total, smashing historic records. Now that number seems only to be going up.
In April, more than 70,000 were reported on the border and in the interior, and in May about 60,000, according to leaked figures I received. These kinds of monthly numbers reside at the far upper scale of got-away tallies even for the Biden administration, judging by data that the Heritage Foundation’s “Oversight Project” received through FOIA.
Consider that got-aways tallied at the 25,000-per-month range during FY 2021, which came in at 308,655, according to the Heritage Foundation’s numbers. It doubled to 50,000 per month in FY 2022 when 606,150 got-aways were tallied, according to data shared with me.
At 60,000-70,000 a month and higher, FY 2023 is projected to top 1 million got-aways.
This is happening because got-aways most typically are foreign nationals who know their criminal backgrounds, warrants, or other ineligibilities would preclude them from CBP-One or catch-and-release. They also know the Biden government has all but ended interior enforcement, a big bonus. So they are running a nominal “blockade.”
In all three of these ways, the border crisis continues at the same historic, stratospheric levels as when Biden took office — the only difference being that Fox News drones can see very little of any of this.
Out of sight, though, should never mean out of mind.
In an unusual, scathing, and much-redacted public report, the Department of Homeland Security’s independent Office of Inspector General has released the results of an investigation into one of several U.S. releases of border-crossing immigrants who flagged positive on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist.
But the report states that because border agents “were busy processing an increased flow of migrants” who were clogging the area’s central processing center at the time, agents released the suspect into the interior before the inconclusive alert could be resolved, which normally would happen quickly under established inter-agency routines.
Instead, under the pressure of processing historic numbers of illegal aliens pouring through the Yuma Sector all that spring (28,681 that April, compared to 298 the same month in 2020), Border Patrol released the suspect with most of the rest on personal recognizance, a GPS tracking device, and an honor-system promise that they voluntarily report in later to an ICE office in the cities they chose to settle in.
Mass releases of illegal border-crossers from central processing centers (CPCs), which as quickly as possible hand out “notice to report” or “notice to appear” authorization papers, sometimes with electronic monitoring devices, have been customary all along the southern border since President Biden took office in January 2021, without letup to the present day, and is commonly understood as the main cause of the border crisis.
Only after CPC officers released this suspect to board a commercial flight from Palm Springs, Calif., to Tampa, Fla. – where pre-check routines confirmed the watch list hit – did agencies eventually realize the alien was a positive match on the Terrorist Watchlist. But it was too little, too late.
Not until after two more weeks of foul-ups did ICE agents track down and, on May 6, 2022, finally arrest the suspected terrorist in Tampa.
Although the OIG report does not name the suspect for ostensible privacy reasons, the case details bear close resemblance to details in a May 23, 2022, Fox News report by Adam Sabes and Bill Melugin, which described how DHS border agents inadvertently released Colombian national Isnardo Garcia-Amado and then arrested him two weeks later in Florida.
It boils down like this: Cases when aliens flag on the watchlist after routine national security database checks inside Border Patrol stations and processing centers are forwarded for general reporting purposes (or confirmation) to the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center in Virginia.
Terrorist Screening Center analysts may request additional identifying information like fingerprints or copies of travel or identity documents through U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s National Targeting Center (NTC) or contact a Mexican intelligence group known as Grupo Conjunto de Inteligencia Fronteriza, that works closely with the American agencies on these cases.
Often in the end, federal agents, including the Border Patrol’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team, get dispatched to border holding facilities for face-to-face interviews with terrorism suspects to help with confirmations and to collect intelligence information.
The report found communications breakdowns at the NTC, as well as with overwhelmed CBP agents on the ground in Yuma’s central processing center, in large part due to the pressure from a human torrent that had been underway for months.
It’s long been customary that the FBI Screening Center request that the NTC facilitate an interview with the migrant before a release.
Neither the interview nor hit confirmation happened before release, at least in part because the NTC sent the request to an incorrect email distribution list for the Border Patrol’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team, but also because those in Yuma who did receive the request were too swamped to read it.
The same interview request went successfully to the emails of supervisors working in the Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector, according to footnote 17. Those Yuma supervisors never responded.
Why?
“A Yuma CPC [Central Processing Center] agent explained that he and his colleagues try to respond to NTC emails as quickly as possible but were busy processing an increased flow of migrants,” the report stated. “As a result, the Tactical Terrorism Response Team did not receive the NTC’s request and did not interview the migrant.
Elsewhere, the report noted that central processing center agents “explained that the Yuma CPC was over capacity following an increase in apprehensions, which created pressure to quickly process migrants and decreased the time available to review each file.”
The NTC also was clearly overwhelmed at the time, which would explain two other vital communications failures. At one point, the NTC asked for – and received the critical desired information – from the Mexican intelligence group it normally works with.
But two NTC officials who received it never forwarded it and “told us they did not recall why they did not forward it…,” the OIG report said.
And, when the now-freed terrorist suspect flagged a second time prior to boarding the flight to Tampa, the Transportation Security Administration at the Palm Springs airport notified the NTC that the match was positive.
This set in motion an arrest plan, but the mass-migration-related foul-ups did not end there, even as the clock was ticking on a potential national security event.
More Delays by an Overwhelmed Border Patrol Put the Nation at Risk
With the suspect free and roaming in Florida on April 22, 2022, the case went straight to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to arrest the suspect, who was supposed to voluntarily report in on June 1. ICE in Tampa changed it to an earlier date “because the migrant was a positive Terrorist Watchlist match, and the office was concerned that… the migrant could post a national security risk.”
Two other reasons are redacted.
Working with the FBI, ICE put a surveillance team on the suspect and asked for the all-important paper “Alien File,” from Border Patrol, which would include helpful photographs and potential evidence that would indicate whether the suspect had any history of violence or criminality.
But ICE officers couldn’t act because they didn’t get the file for eight days, even for a national security priority like this. That’s because Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector operation was unable to sort, box, and ship any more than a thousand files “once or twice a week” from that overwhelmed processing center to ICE offices across the country, the OIG report found.
They were tens of thousands behind.
One final snafu almost derailed the arrest. When the arresting ICE team showed up at the suspect’s residence and waited for the suspect to leave so they could do the arrest, they learned Border Patrol’s electronic monitoring (Alternatives to Detention) office didn’t open until 7 a.m. and also that system did not share GPS tracking information with ICE, which the team needed to confirm the suspect was in one of the vehicles that departed. The team made do by trailing the vehicle until an officer could call the ATD office when it opened at 7 a.m.
They arrested the suspect without incident at 7:30 a.m. on May 6, 2022.
Broader Implications for National Security
The OIG report is unique in addressing a national security threat caused by President Biden’s mass migration crisis that few Americans, pundits, or national security experts acknowledge as real. The crisis has broken records, including the apprehension of more than 200 aliens on the FBI Terror Watchlist since 2020, and continues into its third year.
Above all else, this OIG report confirms a long-held thesis of mine, which is that the mass migration crisis has seriously eroded normal counterterrorism security programs at the southern border and created an elevated threat level environment.
This case is not the only one where I have posited that counterterrorism border programs detailed in America’s Covert Border War are crumbling under this human onslaught. Americans live at higher risk of terror attack as a result.
As I have reported, for instance, a Lebanese Venezuelan migrant who swam the Rio Grande from Matamoros to Brownsville, Texas, in early December 2021 was on the FBI terror watch list. Amid the border chaos that month, the FBI recommended ICE keep him locked up until deportation due to “substantive high side derogatory intelligence,” labeling him a “high risk” and a “flight risk.”
But instead, ICE headquarters ordered the man released for fear that, due to his weight, he might catch COVID-19. He was free and pursuing an asylum claim in Detroit last I checked.
The breakdown is evident on the Mexican side too. In April 2021, Mexican immigration officials caught a watch-listed Yemeni named Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed just as he was about to cross into Del Rio, Texas. In normal times, U.S.-Mexico collaboration on terrorist travel threat issues runs deep. Between 2014 and 2019, Mexico deported 19 suspected migrant terrorists, very probably in collaboration with the FBI stationed in-country.
But not this time. Mexico ended up attempting to deport Ahmed, but he came right back in July 2021, the busiest month in the history of both nations up to that time. Rather than deport Ahmed a second time, the Mexicans simply let him go. In a hint as to just how problematic the Americans found this, Homeland Security issued a “be on the lookout” bulletin for Ahmed to law enforcement throughout Texas. It’s unclear whether anyone ever found him.
A reasonable question to ask: Is DHS’s OIG investigating these cases too? They must.
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