The Biden administration needs to take responsibility for their own mess... Biden administration announces sky-high border numbers, looks to blame Trump Nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children were encountered in March, the highest recorded. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-sky-high-border-numbers-blame-trump-administration Border officials encountered 172,000 migrants at the border in March, a 71% increase from February and the latest indicator of the extent of the crisis at the southern border -- but one that Biden officials are trying to blame on the Trump administration. Of the 172,000 migrants encountered, the majority were single adults, and included 18,890 unaccompanied children -- a 100% increase from the already high numbers encountered in February, and the highest number recorded. In February, 100,441 migrants overall were encountered. "CBP has experienced an increase in encounters and arrests. This is not new. Encounters have continued to increase since April 2020, and our past experiences have helped us be better prepared for the challenges we face this year," Acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Troy Miller said in a statement. "We are committed to balancing the need to maintain border security, care for those in our custody, and keep the American people and our workforce safe." The Biden administration has been tackling a surge in migrant numbers in recent months, a surge which has escalated into a major crisis, although officials have instead described it as a "challenge." While single adults and family units can be returned via Title 42 public health protections, the administration has not been applying it to unaccompanied children. Meanwhile, Mexico has been refusing to take back family units with children under the age of seven. The result has been a re-introduction of so-called "catch-and-release" policies by which some migrants are released into the interior, and pictures have emerged of packed facilities for migrant children. MIGRANTS STREAM THROUGH GAPS IN BORDER WALL FOLLOWING BIDEN'S ORDER TO HALT CONSTRUCTION In March, 103,900 individuals were expelled under Title 42, representing 60% of total encounters. Republicans have accused the administration of fueling the crisis by rolling back Trump-era policies like the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) which kept migrants in Mexico for their hearings -- as well as narrowing interior enforcement priorities and halting construction of the border wall. But the Biden administration has instead blamed the Trump administration, "We're continuing to dig out of the hole left by the previous administration on immigration," an administration official said on the call with reporters. The officials blamed a lack of preparedness from Health and Human Services, saying the Trump administration didn’t ask for additional beds until Jan. 15. It also blamed the prior administration for cutting funding for the Northern Triangle and ending asylum problems. The official said the new administration has made "significant progress" since Jan. 20, but warned that "no-one should have the expectation it’ll be solved overnight." The official also called on Congress to act to fix the immigration system. It echoes criticism from President Biden himself aimed at his predecessor. "He dismantled all the elements that exist to deal with what had been a problem and continued to be a problem for a long time," he said at a press conference last month. "He, in fact, shut down the number of beds available. He did not fund HHS to get people to get the children out of those Border Patrol facilities where they should not be and not supposed to be more than a few days — a little while. But he dismantled all of that." Those claims have fallen flat with Republicans, who have pointed to low numbers last year, as well as mechanisms put in place to deal with migrant surges after the 2019 border crisis that have now been undone. The March numbers exceeded the highest monthly total during the 2019 crisis, where approximately 142,000 migrants were encountered in May that year. It is likely that numbers will continue to climb in the Spring and early Summer months. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., on "Fox & Friends" called on Biden to re-implement policies like the Migrant Protection Protocols, and pointed to recent openings of new child migrant facilities as proof the administration can’t handle the numbers coming in. "They cannot even handle the surge of migrants, they are taking over military bases, the Dallas convention center, and the people on the ground are telling you they can’t control it, it has got to stop," he said. "Joe Biden needs to reverse this deadly devastating policy."
Having done such a fabulous job, she's off to "retirement." Normally, retirement happens when you've done a good job. When you've done a shitty job, you get shitcanned. Perhaps journalists are not familiar with the difference. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...er-coordinator-Roberta-S-Jacobson-RESIGN.html
This may have been said before... but I hear a medical crisis is looming. Where are the Hollywood humanitarians? Where are the Et DNC Trolls now... kids in cages and all that?
U.S. considering cash payments to Central America to stem migration https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ntral-america-to-stem-migration-idUSKBN2BW2L1 The United States is considering a conditional cash transfer program to help address economic woes that lead migrants from certain Central American countries to trek north, as well as sending COVID-19 vaccines to those countries, a senior White House official told Reuters on Friday. The possible cash transfer program would be targeted at people in the Northern Triangle region of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, Roberta Jacobson, the White House’s southern border coordinator, told Reuters in an interview, without saying who exactly would receive the cash. Roughly 168,000 people were picked up by U.S. Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border in March, the highest monthly tally since March 2001 and part of steadily increasing arrivals in recent months. “We’re looking at all of the productive options to address both the economic reasons people may be migrating, as well as the protection and security reasons,” she said. Jacobson did not provide a detailed explanation of how any cash transfer program would work. “The one thing I can promise you is the U.S. government isn’t going to be handing out money or checks to people,” she said. Jacobson said that no decision had been made regarding whether to prioritize sending vaccines to the Northern Triangle countries, but added that the Biden administration would consider how the vaccines could help ailing economies in those countries.
Having done a couple long posts over time about how they would do exactly that- or give it a try anyway- I will- in a rare show of restraint not go there again. But the gist of those posts was that they clearly were following "a retro path." Somehow they have gotten it into their heads that they are the first Americans on the planet to think that "we need to address the systemic causes of why they come." Nevermind that we have decades and decades of failed experience in giving money to corrupt dictators and bullshiite NGO's to help the people, and the result is that they keep coming - often because we propped up the dictators and corrupt programs and cheated them. We have seen that movie for decades and now they are thinking it is a progressive idea. Oh yeh, it will be different this time. Next thing you know, Daniel Ortega will be back as President of Nicaragua to make it completely, completely retro. Oh wait........ The oft-cited Roberta Jacobson in the article above has since cut and run and resigned. That gives you some view into how excited she is about the prospects of putting lipstick on that pig plan.
The Biden Human Trafficking Scheme is definitely on steroids this weekend although everyday is a big human trafficking day now. Let's do a quick review: Biden's so-call border czar just resigned. She says that this is in order and as planned since the border job was just a temp job for her while something opened up at Arby's. And Biden appointed the VP to be the lead person on the immigration problem but she says that she never signed up for any of that nasty border stuff- her job is to just bloviate about the northern triangle countries' problems. Maybe issue a report that unveils the startling finding that poverty and violence are driving factors and that relatively speaking those are shithole countries so people want to go to the U.S. But, hey, let's not prejudge. Let the process unfold and we will follow the facts. I have previously made the radical suggestion that if she wants to find out why people are coming, maybe she could go to the border and ask people why they are coming, but she says she does not do that kind of scut work. Pretty difficult to get the feeling that anyone is in charge of anything at the border. Of course, for the progressives that is good news. Mission accomplished in less than a 100 days. High five to Joe from them.
This is turning into a crisis and they better fix it fast as all Joe and the democrat's fault. No sentient thinking being is going to take them seriously as they try to blame Trump.