“Closing time, open all the doors and let you out into the world… Closing time, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” — Semisonic, 1998
The COVID-era public health policy Title 42, which allowed Customs and Border Protection to deny illegal immigrants entry to the United States selectively, does not expire until this Friday. But it already appears that CBP has abandoned its use.
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More than 11,000 migrants were apprehended crossing the southern border on Tuesday. Thousands more illegally crossed without arrest and are now camping out in border communities such as El Paso, Texas.
Also on Tuesday, Border Patrol agents began clearing out migrant encampments around El Paso, encountering mostly illegal immigrants who had not been apprehended. But instead of taking anyone into custody, agents simply instructed migrants to turn themselves in at the Border Patrol station in El Paso, where they could then be processed and allowed into the country. The reason no migrants were taken into custody is simple: The government has no room to detain them.
So what will happen to all those immigrants who crossed illegally and are now turning themselves in to Border Patrol stations in border communities? Well, according to NBC News, they will be given a piece of paper telling them to report to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office inside the U.S., then released to go wherever they want, as long as that place isn’t the border.
This policy of granting “parole” to illegal immigrants to go wherever they want isn’t new. President Joe Biden has been illegally abusing this power for more than a year now. The only new wrinkle is that CBP used to take the time to enroll illegal immigrants into ICE’s computer system and issue them tracking numbers. Now, CBP isn’t even doing that.
The shape of Biden’s post-Title 42 border security plan is now becoming clear: Open the border and let everyone in, but then push them away from border communities, into the interior of the country, as quickly as possible so a humanitarian crisis doesn’t materialize on the border.
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New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and thousands of other communities across the country will then be forced to deal with the burden of housing, feeding, clothing, and educating them.
Yesterday, Biden warned that “it’s going to be chaotic for a while” as Title 42 ends. The problem is, that chaos is already here, and Biden is just spreading it across the country as fast as possible.
