U.S. media outlet The Gateway Pundit reported Friday that Biden‘s immigration policies have led to an increased crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, with the largest number of people expected to enter the U.S. border in the history of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Mexican government is stepping up efforts to control the influx of migrants entering Mexico’s southern border.
Mexican President Ovrador held a virtual meeting with Biden on March 1 and said the next morning, “Many people think they will arrive in the U.S. …… We need to work together to regulate the flow.”
Several reports said Mexican President Francois Obrador (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) is preparing to “significantly strengthen” operations along Mexico’s border with Guatemala. Reuters said, “Mexico is preparing to significantly step up efforts to detain migrants to the United States who cross the Mexico-Guatemala border illegally in response to a surge in the number of illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States, according to four people familiar with the matter.”
Reuters added that “Mexico will deploy security forces to cut off the flow of migrants, most of whom come from Central America’s northern triangle of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, whose economies have been hit by the communist virus and hurricanes in the last year.”
Team That Once Helped Solve Migrant Caravan to Lead Containment Efforts
Mexico is about to deploy the same team that once helped solve the migrant caravan problem. “The militarized police of the Mexican National Guard, which led the operation to dramatically reduce the number of illegal immigrants entering Mexico from Central America during the increase in 2019, will be the armed force at the forefront of this containment operation,” the report reads.
Reuters quoted a member of the National Guard as saying, “The operation will be more frequent and more continuous, and we will join from next week.” .
According to media reports, the unprecedented number of illegal immigrants arriving at the U.S. border, which hit a record in February, is expected to increase further in March. What is happening is that while the Biden Administration continues to downplay the border situation, refusing to use the word crisis to describe the situation at the border, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that it encountered at least 100,441 people in February alone, a 28 percent increase from January; unaccompanied children (UACs) are also arriving at the U.S. border faster than officials can process and transfer them to sponsoring families At least 13,000 underage immigrants are in U.S. custody.
Mexico Fears Biden Administration’s Asylum Policy, Increasing Human Trafficking
Concerns about the U.S.-Mexico border reached levels not seen since mid-2019 in February and were at their highest level in February in 15 years, according to data reported by Reuters. The Mexican government is concerned that the Biden administration’s asylum policy is fomenting illegal immigration and creating business for organized crime, according to officials and internal assessments seen by Reuters.
A Mexican official familiar with immigration developments, who asked not to be named, said organized crime has changed its modus operandi since “the day Biden took office” and is now showing an “unprecedented” level of sophistication, including “briefing clients on the latest immigration rules and using them to get into the country. clients on the latest immigration rules, using technology to confuse authorities and disguising smuggling as a travel agency operation.” Smugglers communicate with migrants through numerous social media channels to update them on “upcoming checkpoints, when trucks can pass through the pass, where to stay and how to interpret immigration laws.
According to the Associated Press, Mexican law enforcement officials reported that at a checkpoint in the northern border state of Mexico, they inspected a bus bound for a northern Mexican city and caught 20 illegal immigrants using “forged UNCHR letterhead documents,” which the illegal immigrants said were given to them by traffickers, promising that it was a “safe pass” to enter the U.S. border. The illegal immigrants say they were given the documents by traffickers and are assured that they are “security passes” to enter the U.S. border.
Individuals on the U.S. terrorism watch list enter through the U.S.-Mexico border
U.S. Republicans said, “Individuals on the U.S. terrorism watch list are now beginning to take advantage of the southern border situation to enter Mexico. “
So far going into fiscal year 2021, four individuals allegedly matching identities in the FBI’s terrorist screening database have been arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border. Media outlet Worth (Axios) said, “Three of those arrested were from Yemen, one from Serbia and four were arrested, a number greater than the similar number of people detained throughout last year.”
Trump Slams Biden for Undermining the “Great Relationship” the U.S. Has Built with Mexico’s President
Meanwhile, on Fox News host Maria Bartiromo’s show, Trump slammed Biden for undermining the “great relationship” the U.S. and Mexican presidents have built in cooperating to control the flow of illegal immigrants, saying Biden has put the U.S. border at risk by reversing the previous administration’s border policy and halting construction of the border wall.
President Trump stopped a similar caravan of illegal immigrants in early 2019.
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