By Mark Krikorian
Monday, April
12, 2021
There seems to be disagreement about the
nature of the problem at our southern border.
Much of the commentary has been about the
terrible conditions in which migrants are being held. And the conditions are
indeed terrible — children and teenagers warehoused in Border Patrol facilities
not built for that purpose, awaiting transfer to HHS-managed
shelters, where they’re held until the government
can locate and vet (-ish) sponsors, usually their illegal-alien relatives, to
deliver them to. Meanwhile, adult illegals bringing children with them have
also overwhelmed the DHS’s capacity — in some instances they’re having to sleep under a
bridge until they can be processed further.
The Democrats’ diagnosis is that this
massive and growing flow of illegal aliens is not being processed fast enough into
the U.S. The solution, therefore, is increased capacity, so that ever-larger
numbers of illegal-alien families and minors will be processed quicker and more
comfortably into the country. White House press secretary Jen Psaki, for instance, said last week that “our focus is on addressing the
needs, opening up shelters, ensuring there is access to health and educational
resources, expediting processing at the border.”
But the overcrowding, etc. is merely a
symptom, not the actual problem, which is that huge numbers of people
are illegally surging across our border. March
apprehensions by the Border Patrol reached a
20-year high, with the number of unaccompanied children double the February
level, and those family units nearly triple from the month before. The border
crisis is rapidly approaching the scale of the 2015 disaster in Europe, also
sparked by irresponsible comments and policies by government leadership, in
that case by German chancellor Angela Merkel.
As Byron York wrote over the weekend:
Under
administration orders, they are no longer really trying to prevent people from
entering the U.S. illegally. Rather, they are attempting to humanely house and
feed the thousands prior to releasing them into the country. The border’s
guardians are overwhelmed and increasingly giving way to bureaucratic pressure
to let most people in.
The numerical immigration limits and
eligibility rules established by Congress are being comprehensively subverted
by the Biden administration’s conscious decision to permit the large-scale
admission of illegal aliens and to collude with them in systematic abuse of our
asylum law. Few of those admitted to claim “asylum” qualify for it — many will
not even bother to apply, and those who do, and lose, will not be made to
leave.
In other words, in seeking more
expeditious processing of illegal aliens at the border, the Biden
administration is implementing an extra-legal increase in the number of de
facto permanent residents of the U.S. That’s the problem at
the border, and to the extent the administration does anything to try to
moderate it, it’s only because of the political cost it is paying, not because it accepts it as a problem.
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