No. of Recommendations: 2
Evidently, the daily rate was the highest rate in many months for illegal crossings, despite efforts to stem to the flow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/us/migrant-cris...(probably have to subscribe, so I'll paste a bit)
They come from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Uzbekistan, India and dozens of other countries, a moving global village of hundreds of thousands of people crossing the Rio Grande and slipping through gaps in the border wall at a pace of nearly 9,000 people a day, one of the highest rates of unlawful crossings in months.
Despite new border barriers and thickets of razor wire, risk of deportation and pleas for patience, a resurgent tide of men, women and children is not waiting. Driven by desperation, families and individuals are pushing across the southern border and past new efforts by the Biden administration to keep migrants waiting until they secure hard-to-get appointments to enter the nation with permission.Evidently, coyotes are spreading misinformation via social media to lure more desperate people to pay them money to smuggle them. At least 1500/day are using the appointment app to secure appointments (the legal way).
The surge shows little sign of ebbing, according to Brandon Judd, the head of the Border Patrol union, who said that 8,900 people were arrested on Wednesday and another 8,360 on Thursday.Let's say 8000/day arrested...times 30, that's 240K per month. <my opinion>If Biden had opened the floodgates, he wouldn't be arresting all those people. He'd tell Border Patrol to go home. But that's not what he wants.</my opinion>
Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona, a Democrat, joined border law-enforcement officials and mayors in criticizing the Biden administration for what she called haphazard releases of migrants. 'Arizona is being overwhelmed,' she said Friday.She's right, but she's also wrong. Congress has to act, and they aren't, and show no signs of doing so. There's only so much POTUS can do with executive orders and non-congressional-approved funding. In the other link I provided in another post, he's been asking Congress for almost three years now.
