With as many as 700,000 northern bound migrants already in Mexico and more arriving daily I don’t think Mexico can afford to play along with this for much longer.
I’m hoping the new Mexican president in conjunction with the next US president (I’m personally rooting for Harris) will be able to put a dent in this. It is certainly on their respective radars.
At the same time, Mexico has been engaged in a massive effort to prevent migrants from reaching the U.S. border. Sheinbaum will be under immediate pressure to keep it up, even as the rising number of migrants stuck in Mexico risks angers the Mexican public. She will be under pressure from the U.S., as well, to target the dangerous criminal organizations that traffic fentanyl and migrants to the United States.
“We will pursue more severe criminal charges against repeat violators, and if someone does not make an asylum request at a legal point of entry and instead crosses our border unlawfully, they will be barred from receiving asylum,” she said.
Harris emphasized her goal of a “humane” immigration program, saying she would with Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for “Dreamers” - hundreds of thousands of people brought into the U.S. illegally as children. They were a priority for Democrats for a decade but were left out of a failed immigration bill that Biden had backed.
“I reject the false choice that suggests we must either choose between securing our border or creating a system of immigration that is safe, orderly and humane,” Harris said. “We can and we must do both.”
Because we’ve started mass importing them to make things more streamlined. I’m pretty sure that’s what they tell their supporters.
Because we’ve started mass importing them to make things more streamlined.
That’s a reasonably accurate description of what’s actually happening. The US opened up access to CBP One and there’s now about 43,000 immigrants a month coming across the southern border legally. Then there’s the CHNV Parole program that’s averaging about 28,000 more people per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Add those together and its something like 71,000 people per month who are using streamlined processes to legally come into the United States.
Those are official numbers from US Customs and Border Protection by the way. They’re in the August 2024 monthly update which you can read at this link.
I’m not complaining about it either. My grandparents got here through Ellis Island and I’ve spent years arguing that US Immigration Policy needs to be much closer to what it was back in the '50s.
Crazy, it’s almost like there was an artificial problem created by the Biden administration all along.
Yeah, that is a crazy way to look at it.
Yes, it’s an artificial problem Biden created. When Trump wanted to build the wall, it was a real problem, but it became an artificial problem, created by Biden, in 2020. You are so right.
I wouldn’t say “created by”, more like “failed to address”. Of course THAT particular brush puts as much, or more, paint on Republicans than it does the Biden Administration. Those buffoons wouldn’t even vote for the bill that they wrote because they didn’t want to give Biden a win. It’s another example of Republicans of putting the good of their party ahead of the good of the nation.
We used to have a word for people like that.
