For instance, Trump’s public-health emergency order allowing the Border Patrol to expel any captured alien without any fuss or bother has been kept in place, but an exception has been added for “unaccompanied” minors. The result has been that parents with relatives in the U.S. have started sending their kids over the border to turn themselves, where they’re held (in shipping containers, not cages!) and then delivered at taxpayer expense to those relatives, with the parents hoping to join them later.
Another example: Responding to congressional inaction to plug the loopholes drawing huge numbers of bogus asylum claims, the Trump administration instituted the Remain in Mexico program (formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols), whereby Central American “asylum-seekers” were sent back across the border to await their U.S. immigration hearings in Mexico. This all but eliminated the incentive to make a bogus asylum claim as a means of gaining release into the U.S. The program dissuaded thousands from coming and convinced thousands who had made such claims to give up and return home rather than wait in Mexico. But thousands of others stuck around, hoping for a Democratic victory in November. Their bet paid off, sort of; Biden has ended the program for new asylum applicants, but is only admitting those on the Remain in Mexico waiting lists a few at a time, leading some to sneak across.
Or take the Biden-Menendez immigration bill (please). The proposed amnesty would not be limited to long-resident illegal aliens but rather be given to anyone who could show they were here as of January 1 of this year.
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