America’s border crisis worsened with a record 12,600 immigrants found by Customs and Border Protection officials in 24 hours Monday, according to Fox News.
Pictures show a sea of thousands of newly arrived immigrants huddled in neat lines as they await processing after illegally crossing into Eagle Pass, Texas.
Many have walked across the Rio Grande river that serves as the border between the US and Mexico with plans to seek asylum.
The number has reached the highest ever recorded since the end of Title 42 measures in May. August saw more than 304,000 immigrants attempt to enter the US, September rose to 341,000 and October recorded 310,000.
Border resources are stretched thin, road and rail crossings have been closed so that all available officers can be diverted to process arriving migrants.
The Biden administration’s plan to control the flow is for immigrants to wait in other countries until they can get an appointment through the CBP One application, with up to 30,000 people a month allowed into the US to pursue asylum applications.
Hundreds of immigrants lined up to be processed outside the Eagle Pass border crossing in Texas on Tuesday. Getty Images Border encounters passed 300,000 between August and October. November and December are also trending high. NY Post
“Don’t just show up at the border. Stay where you are and apply legally from there,” President Biden said in January.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also claimed a month later: “People who arrive at the border without using a legal route will be considered ineligible for asylum.”
In practice that did not happen and 78% of all found at the Southwest border in October — 188,778 people — crossed into the country illegally between the gates.
Most were not removed, with the Department of Homeland Security revealing that between May and September they had removed or returned “over 300,000 individuals,” which equates to about 60,000 people a month – less than 30% of those arriving on US soil during that time. .
Those now arriving at the border are not just those who claim to be fleeing persecution and failed regimes in South America. CBP figures show an increase in those arriving from China, India, Russia and Africa.
Monday saw the highest daily number of encounters at the southern border with more than 12,600 in just 24 hours Getty Images Migrants hold hands for support as they cross the Rio Grande into the US Getty Images
An immigrant from Morocco, Oussama, 20, recently told various media how he had given up being an online gamer in his home country and tried his luck at the southern border in search of work and a job with better pay, telling reporters: “I love you Joe Biden, thank you for everything Joe Biden,” was in the US.
He was processed and allowed into the country, then photographed in New York City a few days later where he said he was looking for work.
While authorities have been unable to stem the flow of people arriving — increasing every year of the Biden presidency, with CBP recording 1.9 million border encounters in fiscal year 2021, 2.8 million in 2022 and 3.2m in 2023 — the immigration court system is not in a position to handle them. effectively either.
As of November, US Immigration courts reached a historic backlog of more than three million pending cases, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearing House (TRAC).
The number has increased by over a million cases in one year, after reaching two million cases for the first time in 2022.
The current backlog equates to about 4,500 cases per immigration judge in the court system, according to TRAC.
The volume of cases has stalled trials for months, meaning that when immigrants first enter the country they are given initial court dates years in advance.
A newly arrived migrant baby is swaddled in a foil blanket to keep him warm after arriving in the US Getty Images
Meanwhile, the three million people awaiting their trial are free to stay and, after six months, work legally until they appear before a judge. This is what draws so many people to the southern border, according to some experts.
“The backlog has been a pulling factor,” senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, Muzaffar Chishti, told The Post. “Pull factors are always more important than push factors.”
“Intelligent immigrants. They know what kind of reception will happen to the US. And social media has made it even stronger.
Until the asylum system is overhauled and the backlog is reduced the border problem will not be solved, explained Chisti.
“If they see that not everyone who applies for asylum gets asylum, and then people don’t stay for seven years, and there is a possibility of removal at the end, I think the pattern will change,” he said. “The message must be sent.”
Politicians from the left and right have repeatedly expressed anger at President Biden for not taking more aggressive action to address the crisis.
There are currently 3 million pending hearings in immigration court. Twelve months ago there were 2 million Getty Images
“The crisis at the border is unacceptable. We need the federal government to step up, do its job, and bring security and stability to the border,” said Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs (D.)
Earlier this month, Hobbs wrote a letter to Biden asking for support from the National Guard to reopen the Lukeville border, which has been closed since Dec. 4 to deal with a surge in immigration.
That support was not forthcoming, so Hobbs issued his own order deploying Arizona National Guard troops to support CBP agents along the Arizona border.
The border crossing at Lukeville remains closed, however, because Hobbs does not have the authority to order it open.
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott (R.) signed a bill that took effect Monday giving police officers in the state the power to arrest anyone caught entering the country illegally.
“President Biden’s willful inaction at the border leaves Texas to fend for itself,” he said of the action.
People arrested under the law will be allowed to choose whether to leave the country under a judge’s order, or face prosecution, jail time and fines of up to $2,000. Repeat offenders will face criminal charges.
Immigrants from countries outside Latin America — including China, India, Russia and Africa — have arrived at the border Getty Images
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D.) — who has been pushing for months to secure federal aid for the tens of thousands of immigrants who have overwhelmed the Big Apple’s protection system — on Tuesday called on New Yorkers to travel to Washington en masse. to claim funding.
“The source of our discontent lies in Washington DC,” Adams told reporters. “We need to mobilize and rally to go to DC and tell the government of this country that what happened to New York City is not fair.
Adams has traveled to Washington himself 10 times to ask the Biden administration for help in the immigration crisis, which has seen more than 150,000 people pass through NYC since the start of the crisis with a price tag expected to reach $12 billion. The federal government has allocated only about $150 million to the city.
After his most recent visit to the nation’s capital in early December, Adams said “I didn’t leave optimistic.”
“I left with the cold reality that help wasn’t coming anytime soon,” the mayor said.
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