In the latest disaster of Biden’s border crisis, there are already 12,000 migrants living under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, with thousands more arriving daily.
The vast majority of these migrants are reportedly Haitian, many of whom have lived throughout South America for over a decade since an earthquake hit Haiti in 2010.
“I see brave people who, instead of being trapped by conformity, chose to find a better life,” one Haitian migrant who has lived in Chile for four years told the Washington Post.
Another migrant from Cuba who has worked in Peru to save money for the trip north told the Post, “Without money, you are nothing here.”
It is very brave of these migrants to walk thousands of miles north for a better life. But if you live safely in a country where you have a job, can provide for your family, and save money, then you have no grounds for asylum in the United States.
Our country has laws that identify specific grounds for asylum. They require migrants to face deportation or persecution in a home country based on one of five specific criteria: race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
If these migrants have been safely living and working in South American countries for a decade, none of them will meet this standard.
But the Biden administration will let them in, give them a notice to appear in court, and then forget they ever existed. At least until Congress is ready to pass another amnesty like the one they are preparing right now.
