Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas have started an international diplomatic incident with Mexico. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, “whatever inducements” Biden promised “his Mexican counterpart in exchange for supporting a major shift in U.S. border immigration policy during a January 9 state visit, it wasn’t nearly enough.” The situation at the southern side of the border is chaos and overwhelmed confusion.
Mexico reeling
Mexico is reportedly “reeling under” the Biden “expanded scheme to re-channel hundreds of thousands of Cuban, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants this year from their planned illegal border-crossings.”
Instead, they’re funneled “through official ports of entry on pre-approved ‘humanitarian parole.’” That deal includes “highly lucrative two-year U.S. work permits.” It’s supposed to discourage border jumpers. It’s also totally illegal.
The “CBP One” admission reservation app Mayorkas cooked up went officially online January 12. It’s been around longer in quiet beta testing. The parole scheme is only supposed to apply to four specific nationalities but that’s actually a lie. CIS details how “it already had been secretively admitting all nationalities through almost all land border ports since at least May 2022, with no major U.S. media coverage.”
Nonprofit migrant shelters in Tijuana, Mexico are facing an alarming increase in attacks, raising serious safety concerns. The US — while advising its own citizens to reconsider travel to the area — expels hundreds of migrants to Tijuana.https://t.co/Q282ipWmBu
— CLINIC (@cliniclegal) February 6, 2023
What it means to Mexico is overwhelming numbers of refugees all across the migration routes from south to north. Not only that, it’s clear that “the number of applicants appears to have far outpaced the American ability to admit them.”
CIS has been scanning the Spanish-language media to learn that “significant new numbers of foreign nationals from many dozens of countries, lured by CBP One’s huge expansion, are now accumulating alongside those the administration initially pushed back into Mexico.” Way too many of them.
“Altogether, they now form lengthening weeks- and months-long lines tens of thousands long that have staggered unprepared Mexican towns and cities and provoked citizens to rebel from south to north.”
Migrants in Tijuana tell Border Report they are frustrated that many of the people lining up for their turn to interview and formally request asylum in the U.S. are coming from parts of Mexico across from South Texas.https://t.co/EtdDjn3QM9
— Border Report (@BorderReportcom) February 4, 2023
Biden invited them
Telemundo news is totally convinced that “CBP One has encouraged migration.” According to Enrique Lucero, municipal director of migration for Tijuana, Mexico, on February 1, they “saw an 181 percent spike in migrant arrivals in just the first two weeks after the Biden administration’s January 12 CBP One expansion.” Migrants think they have an appointment. “Yes, we have seen people who arrive with that expectation.”
So many are flooding in that the invasion is seriously backlogged. They’re dying to enter America. For instance, “a 15-year-old Haitian boy died in a Reynosa rental house waiting for his CBP One application to go through.”
Long time residents of Mexico aren’t happy at all with the transients begging them for change everywhere they go. “Those caught in the steadily increasing backlog on the Mexican side of the border quickly became destitute and now fill downtowns where they beg food or pesos, sleep, relieve themselves, disrupt routine civic life, and suffer hard while they travel or wait.”
(Video) Shelter for Ukrainian migrants (& Ukrainian refugees) opens in Tijuana, Mexico
– The city of Tijuana has opened a shelter to house Ukrainian migrants who continue to stream into the city located just south of San Diego.
– Capacity exceeds 1,200.https://t.co/5Hf3Qank3P— Sabe Pen (@CitiBE) February 3, 2023
In Tijuana, they had to resort to periodically hosing down the streets. Municipal garbage collection is on reduced service so they can keep the camps sanitary. “Mexican police have taken to a hopeless game of rousting them from business districts or trying to transport them to other Mexican cities that are similarly overwhelmed.”
Mexico calls it a “humanitarian crisis” because “there are families with babies looking for shelters but they are all collapsed, and the municipal police are chasing migrants in the streets.” It doesn’t make things any easier that the CBP One app appears to have been coded by the same engineers who did the Obamacare website.
“Exacerbating all of this is the fact that the CBP One app has continually crashed and often cannot be reliably used on the trail. Stories abound where applicants can’t complete applications or check status, or access anything at all, starting on its first day of widespread use January 12 and continuing to the present day.“
