A United Nations mix of illegal immigrants are now flooding through the U.S.-Mexico border, especially from Haiti and Pakistan, raising concerns of terrorism costing Americans billions, according to a new report and Senate testimony.
“It is because people from different parts of the world, Africa, Middle East, other parts of the world are now realizing that all you have to do is get to the southern border of the United States and there’s a process there you can claim a legal defense and you just get to come in. I mean, people, the smuggling organizations know exactly what they’re doing,” according to Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar.
He vented on U.S. immigration policy for Sunday’s “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,” a weekly investigative broadcast shown online and on Sinclair stations. She visited the border and found concerns about the new mix of illegals flowing into the country.
Among the key findings: Cubans trying to get in have doubled while illegal entries from Pakistan have surged 935 percent and those from Haiti are up over 1,300 percent.
The immigration numbers and evidence of the new surge were addressed in Senate testimony this week when the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol also raised concerns about terrorism and the backgrounds of non-Latins coming across.
Cuellar represents a border district in Texas and has seen the recent surge in unaccompanied youths and others coming into the U.S. where they are apprehended, cared for and then mostly released with a demand to return for a court hearing, which few do.
He said, “I think what’s happening now is people are realizing all you have to do is get to the southern border and just claim asylum, refugee or credible fear then they’ll process you, give you the notice to appear and then you wait three, four years for a court hearing and that’s why you got Haitians you got other people.”
He added, “There are countries from all over the world not just Mexico and Central America. So it’s a U.N. type of diversity if I can say that.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
