On the plus side, it is encouraging that the New York Times has published an article admitting that President Joe Biden has released over 1 million migrants who were caught illegally crossing the southern border into the United States.
Unfortunately, the New York Times article also makes considerable effort to hide Biden’s culpability for the border crisis, doesn’t mention that record numbers of migrants are dying thanks to Biden’s policies, and doesn’t explain why so few of these migrants will earn the asylum status they are seeking.
On the last question, the paper does admit that asylum for Biden’s million-plus migrants is “a long shot,” but it never explains why. Later in the piece, the New York Times does explain that most of these migrants came to the U.S. “fleeing crime and economic despair.”
Problem is, under U.S. law, high crime and a bad economy are not grounds for asylum. Only those facing persecution in their home country due to “race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion” qualify for asylum protection. The vast majority of Biden’s migrants are economic migrants who came to America to make more money. There’s nothing wrong with trying to earn more money, yet it just doesn’t entitle anyone to cross our borders illegally.
So if very few of these migrants will be granted asylum, and record numbers of them are dying while trying to get here, why are so many coming?
Because they know Biden will release them into the county once they are arrested after illegally crossing the southern border.
The New York Times tries to make this fact seem like it is not Biden’s fault, but it is. Trying to hide Biden’s blame, the publication does note that over a two-year stretch, a similar number of migrants were caught and released by the Trump administration. But the New York Times never bothers to explain why that surge started or why it ended.
The short answer (you can read the long answer here) is that there was a surge of migrants immediately following the election of Mexico’s far-left President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who campaigned on letting migrants cross Mexico freely into the U.S. It did take some time for President Donald Trump to end the surge. He had to threaten a trade war with Mexico to get Lopez Obrador to change policies. But eventually, he caved, and Trump implemented the “Remain in Mexico” policy that denied migrants entrance into the U.S. while they pursued what the New York Times admits are long-shot asylum cases.
Biden ended Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy on his first day in office and also started creating loopholes in Trump’s Title 42 policy. Illegal migrant crossings immediately spiked and haven’t gone down since.
The New York Times tries to make it seem like Biden’s only crime was “his welcoming message to immigrants during his campaign,” an argument endorsed by Biden’s own Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz during litigation in Florida.
But Ortiz did far more than indict Biden for sending a “welcoming message” to illegal border crossers. It is Biden’s policies, policies that reward migrants with entrance into the U.S. for illegally crossing the border, that are the true cause of the border crisis.
“In my experience, we have seen increases when there are no consequences. There is an assumption that if migrant populations are told that there is a potential that they may be released, that, yes, you can see increases,” Ortiz testified.
Until Biden changes his policy of releasing migrants who illegally cross the southern border into the U.S., millions more will come, hundreds more will die, and local communities will be left with hundreds of millions in unpaid food, shelter, healthcare, and education bills.
