The 'got away' immigrants

 Monica Showalter:

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Five hundred thousand people entering in this country with no record of their presence whatsoever is clearly a border out of control, an insecure border, and a very dangerous state of affairs.  The Post notes that when combined with the figures from last year, also during Mayorkas's and Biden's regimen, the figure comes to 900,000.

Nine hundred thousand is equivalent of two Minneapolises, or a Portland and a New Orleans. 

Two hundred seventy thousand, which is the number that rolled in last month, is a city the same size as Orlando.

Three million, which is the total, is a Chicago, or two Philadelphias.

The figures are phenomenal. 

And for obvious reasons, they are very disturbing.

After all, illegal migrants have been incentivized by the Biden administration to turn themselves in to the Border Patrol in order to make fake claims of "asylum."  It's a can't lose for them — starting with the ongoing catch-and-release policy, even for illegal migrants coughing with COVID and refusing the COVID vaccine.  After that, they get automatic authorization to work in the U.S. for the duration of their asylum claims wending through the system, at a pace of years, and once ordered deported, they won't be deported, owing to having been here for too long and not being "a priority" for enforcement. 

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That's just the skeleton stuff.  For many illegal border-crossers, the fat is even better, with free housing, free stipends as "refugees," free health care, free education, free defense attorneys, fee-free asylum applications, free food, free transit without the burden of IDs, and a raft of other goodies.

Now consider that having been offered that, plus no practical worries about deportation — and think about the disturbing fact that 500,000 illegal border-crossers have chosen to turn that down, in favor of simply getting into the country for whatever purpose.  Who does that?

Obviously, it's people who might be deported because of criminal histories, or people who are actively engaged in committing criminal acts, such as the transport of illegal and lethal drugs from China such as fentanyl.  President Trump in his rally to supporters in Arizona over the weekend noted that many countries are now emptying their jails and directing their criminals to head to the States.  There are gang members, murderers, rapists, child-molesters, thieves, and every variety of human plague coming to where their best opportunities are in the States.  I spoke with radio host Jeff Biggs yesterday at Houston's top drive-time radio station, KTRH, and I recall that he noted that 1,300 criminals were identified in recent sweeps in the battered Rio Grande Valley alone, a figure I found shocking.  Thirteen hundred is a very large room full of criminals. 

Many, of course, are from Latin America and other high-crime places, so effectively, we are importing Latin America's pervasive crime problem, where women dare not wear jewels in public, housing communities have tall walls and security guards, fancy watches are a no-no, kidnappings from cars after nails are thrown into the road to disable them are common, purses are placed in trunks before driving in cabs to prevent smash-and-grab theft, ATMs on the street are major risks for criminal card readers, and bulletproof cars are a way of life, to name just a few random adjustments to be made for living in Latin America.  You can find all of that in places like Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador — where many of these illegal migrants are coming from.  I know about these things, having experienced them firsthand in the region.   

But worse still, as Biggs notes, some actual terrorists have been found among the apprehended.

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Biden does not care that criminals and terrorists are coming into the country in droves.  They are taking advantage of the distraction of border agents having to deal with the ones who do turn themselves in.