Democrat open border policy is encouraging people around the world to come illegally

Betsy McCaughey:

Word is spreading worldwide, even to sub-Saharan Africa, that the US has an open southern border and an open checkbook.

This summer, thousands of Africans from Cameroon, Congo and other violence-plagued countries are forming caravans, preparing to cross our southern border, according to Customs and Border Protection reports. Border agents from the Del Rio area of Texas sounded the alarm on May 31 about a group of 116 African migrants. The agents provided photos of women with babies strapped to their backs and young men in T-shirts and gym shorts sitting on the US side of the Rio Grande, waiting to be arrested.

Then, in early June, agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, detained another group of Central African families. Agents said they were startled to see so many “immigrants from countries not normally encountered.” In all, more than 500 Africans in a single week crossed the Del Rio border zone. Late in June, agents arrested yet another 310 mostly Haitian and African migrants.

Raul L. Ortiz, the chief patrol agent in the Del Rio sector, reports in a CBP news release that migrants “from around the world are traveling thousands of miles just to enter the United States illegally to exploit our immigration laws.” These migrants know that if they come with children and utter the word “asylum,” they will be temporarily detained, then released inside the US, where they can easily disappear.
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Democrat refusal to fix the broken asylum system is more than a Central American problem.  BTW, the fact that Africans are coming to take advantage of the border crisis undercuts the Democrats bogus claims of racism in this country and their push for reparations.