By Monica Showalter, AM THINKER
This week Joe Biden touted a laundry list of immigration carrots and sticks intended to disincentivize illegal immigration at the southern border now that he’s lifting the sparsely enforced Title 42 restrictions on May 11.
They were mostly carrots. The New York Times called them a “new back door on immigration,” and explained that its permissiveness went well beyond the lawful congressional parameters for the admission of immigrants.
The response? More migrants at the border than ever. They’re massing now in record numbers. Call it 5/11.
According to Steve Bannon’s War Room (hat tip: GatewayPundit):
Steve Bannon: We had a Congressman, Andy Biggs, who sat here and said he just got off a conference call with certain executives in Big Counties on the border in Arizona, and they were telling him they had just had a briefing by Border Patrol who said along the Southern border of the United States, there’s 700,000 to a million illegal aliens prepared, when Title 42 comes off, they’re basically prepared, he said, to storm the gates. And the Border Patrol is not prepared for it. The Biden regime is not prepared for this. This Title 42 that comes off is going to be something. And of course, the mainstream media will not cover this.
Ben Berqguam: I’m over here in Matamoros, Steve. I’m right on the Mexico side of the border. Anthony is on the other side in Brownsville. We were reporting from there yesterday. I’m actually in that camp we were in about a month ago and it has grown probably doubled or tripled what it was then. It had over 1000 then. It has more than that now. And what’s happening is, as they come in, they’re just going across. We have 2000 people a day crossing here… It’s just an absolute joke. And this is before Title 42 goes away. They are lining up, they are mobilizing, and it’s going to be a mass invasion when that goes away.
That sounds extreme, but it’s based on local Border Patrol reports and there are confirming reports of very large numbers of migrants massing at the borders from the local presses and some media outlets:
US prepares for more migrant crossings as border restrictions set to end -Reuters
Biden administration braces for a migrant surge when Covid-era restrictions lift -CNN
Chicago Facing ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ Amid Renewed Surge of Migrants from the Border, Officials Say -WTTW
Border towns see ‘disaster’ without federal help as end to Title 42 looms -Cronkite News/Arizona PBS
Bill Melugin at Fox News has considerable photo evidence of a migrant surge in his tweets, too.
Ted that would still not stop illegal immigration. Trust me.
@Ted Brilliant idea, Ted.
If Congress were to pass a law that said all illegal immigrants i,e. those that didn’t go through the legal process, would not receive citizenship and the right to vote, that would solve the problem of illegal immigration. That way the Democrats would not see a ballot box bonanza via illegal immigration.
The aliens would still want to come for the welfare the US offers but less so.
Then if Congress denied them support, that would be the end of it.