Fewer than expected migrants arrived at the border after Title 42 expired, but officials remain on high alert

[Scott]

 

Despite warnings about a potential surge in migrants that sent thousands of federal personnel to the southern US border, officials said the days after the expiration of a Covid-related border restriction policy known as Title 42 saw fewer migrants arriving at the border than initially expected.

Ahead of the policy’s expiration, long lines formed at checkpoints and makeshift encampments proliferated in border communities.

But US authorities saw a 50% drop in the number of migrant encounters along the border over the previous two days compared to earlier in the week – before Title 42 ended – Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/us/title-42-border-immigration-monday/index.html

 

[Tug]

Uh ho what’s the republicans going to do now?they have been in overdrive trying to create fear and racism oh dear then comers false enuendo about criminality in the Biden family what are they going to use as a club now?perhaps doing some legislation to address immigration???? Nope……..and so it goes……..

Edited May 15, 2023 by Tug

[Credo]

I made it a point to watch a number of local stations as well as a couple of the national news channels covering this.  It was rather amusing.  One anchor (actually a person I know) was standing at the border at a crossing and there was nobody there.  Not one migrant.  At another crossing, there were a handful -- less than 15.   

The plan that Biden has implemented should see a big drop in the number of people coming to the border, but the problem is far from over.  

 

The difference with Biden is that he is doing the best he can to respect human rights, keep people out of detention, especially families, although a Trump-appointed judge has made that more difficult.   

 

Unlike the previous president, this one actually knows how to get things done and it ain't by sitting and watching TV and sending out tweets.

 

 

[Hanaguma]

A few days of reporting does not erase the fact that, under President Biden, the number of illegal border crossings has skyrocketed. Plus more and more are simply released and expected to come back for a hearing in months or even years. In the meantime they can roam free.

[Tug]

41 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

A few days of reporting does not erase the fact that, under President Biden, the number of illegal border crossings has skyrocketed. Plus more and more are simply released and expected to come back for a hearing in months or even years. In the meantime they can roam free.

Hey if the republicans gave a hoot they would be crafting legislation to address the issue the present administration is doing what it can with the laws on the books 

[Chomper Higgot]

44 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

A few days of reporting does not erase the fact that, under President Biden, the number of illegal border crossings has skyrocketed. Plus more and more are simply released and expected to come back for a hearing in months or even years. In the meantime they can roam free.

Well obviously the ‘skyrocketing’ has stopped.

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, Tug said:

Hey if the republicans gave a hoot they would be crafting legislation to address the issue the present administration is doing what it can with the laws on the books 

The invented the whole ‘migrant crisis’, they can’t fix it, they need it.

 

It’s a distraction for their supporters while the people who fund the Republican Party make off like bandits.

[Hanaguma]

1 minute ago, Tug said:

Hey if the republicans gave a hoot they would be crafting legislation to address the issue the present administration is doing what it can with the laws on the books 

It was pretty under control in the previous administration...  

[Credo]

40 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

A few days of reporting does not erase the fact that, under President Biden, the number of illegal border crossings has skyrocketed. Plus more and more are simply released and expected to come back for a hearing in months or even years. In the meantime they can roam free.

We've listened to the rantings and ravings of the right-wingers with an almost total disregard for the facts.  61% of the people crossing the border in 2022 were either returned to Mexico or deported.  Without any assistance from the screaming-meemies on the right, Biden has managed to begin implementing procedures to give some semblance of order to the border situation. 

These procedures could not be implemented sooner because the Trump-appointed judge who stopped the lifting of the antiquated Title 42.  Once the court ordered it to remain, those were the rules under which the border operates. 

 

...And, please note, Biden has managed to do this without putting kids in cages, removing them from their parents and leaving nearly a thousand of those children taken from their parents, still in care in the US while the whereabouts of the parents are unknown.  

 

 

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, Hanaguma said:

It was pretty under control in the previous administration...  

No it wasn’t.

 

The main pathway for migrants was still wide open.

 

They were still arriving by aircraft and still overstaying their visas.

 

You just got distracted by the authoritarian excesses visited on the predominantly poor and non white migrants crossing the southern border.

 

[Hanaguma]

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Well obviously the ‘skyrocketing’ has stopped.

 

 

If you count data for 3 days only... but the general trend is still obvious.  

[Scott]

17 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

It was pretty under control in the previous administration...  

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents

 

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Nearly 1,000 migrant children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by the administration of former President Donald Trump have yet to be reunited with their parents despite a two-year effort by President Joe Biden.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Thursday of the 998 children still separated, 148 were in the process of reunification.

Biden, a Democrat, issued an executive order shortly after taking office in January 2021 that established a task force to reunite children separated from their families under Trump, a Republican and immigration hardliner, calling such separations a "human tragedy."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/close-1000-migrant-children-separated-by-trump-yet-be-reunited-with-parents-2023-02-02/

 

 

[Tug]

19 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

It was pretty under control in the previous administration...  

no it wasn’t 

[EVENKEEL]

4 hours ago, Tug said:

Uh ho what’s the republicans going to do now?they have been in overdrive trying to create fear and racism oh dear then comers false enuendo about criminality in the Biden family what are they going to use as a club now?perhaps doing some legislation to address immigration???? Nope……..and so it goes……..

What kind of legislation do you suggest?

[Chomper Higgot]

17 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Nobody's fault but the parents. And the cartels who rent children to send across the border.  If you don't want to be separated from your family, how about not trying to break into another country illegally? 

 

As for the 61% return rate, that is about 37 percent too low. 

A disgusting lie on your part.

 

The Trump administration enacted policies of separating migrant children from their parents, as Scott has posted close to a thousand of those children remain separated from their parents.

 

The Biden administration put an immediate stop to the inhumane policy.

 

By demonstration it was the Trump policy that was the cause of migrant children being separated from their parents.

 

 

 

[stoner]

38 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s a distraction for their supporters while the people who fund the Republican Party make off like bandits.

link to support this claim please. 

[Credo]

21 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

What lie, the parents who put their kids in harms way deserve some blame.

Well, actually they don't.  Most of them had no idea this would happen.   Most of these people faced grave danger to get to the border.  I highly doubt that any of them, or almost any other reasonable person, would anticipate that they would cross the border to reach safety and freedom only to have your children forcibly removed from you and you not be told where you are going or where they are going.   

Family unity is the very basis of immigration policies in almost every country.   I can't easily move to another country to live permanently by myself.  If I marry a citizen, I am eligible.  If I have a child who is a citizen, I am eligible, etc..   Every law we have concerning children and families is geared toward keeping the family intact.   

Trump managed to violate the most basic unit of human society, the family.   

 

[onthedarkside]

Misleading claims removed along with replies. An off topic post also removed

[Hanaguma]

According to the story in the OP, cities are preparing hotels for the "migrants" to stay in.  In NYC they are using a number of properties, including as the story says the Roosevelt Hotel. A 4 star accommodation and a classic building. Another property used is Row NYC hotel- you can see how it is treated in this story...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyc-hotel-worker-calls-out-city-migrants-destroy-rooms-disrespect-employees-no-accountability

 

So perhaps the pressure might ease on the border cities, but it is merely being transferred to others.  And also as the story says, it is too early to speculate whether the temporary lower numbers are a sign of any permanent trend.