The appalling silence of Congress on our border crisis

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The appalling silence of Congress on our border crisis
Ignore, ignore, ignore
Conservative Review, Apr 20, 2018, Daniel Horowitz

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The Washington Times reported this week that the number of Bangladeshis and other migrants from terrorist-prone countries crossing our border has surged in recent months. They pay enormous sums of money to the drug cartels, who in turn use those profits to poison our people with fentanyl. As Brandon Judd, president of the Border Patrol Council, told me last week on my podcast, the catch-and-release magnet allows the drug cartels to tie down the border agents with large groups of bogus asylum seekers from Central America, which allows them to sneak in high-value Middle Easterners through the gaps created by the diversion. Sometimes they use these gaps to bring in horses carrying large quantities of drugs.

Aside from the Middle Easterners, the magnets of catch-and-release and sanctuary cities attract gang members who are also drug runners. It’s not lost on the drug cartels that sanctuary cities refused to turn over 142 gang members last year. Drug trafficking is so rampant among MS-13 membership, which grew exponentially after DACA, the border surge, and the rise of sanctuary cities, that some are even conducting drug trades from prison.

A new international survey shows that only 11 percent of those coming from Honduras are fleeing violence. The rest are coming for jobs and to reunite with relatives who themselves came here illegally. They would never make the trip if they knew they’d be immediately deported or at least detained, yet now the drug cartels are using this “market” as the perfect disguise for their drug importation. The original surge in 2013-2014 is what brought in all the deadly drugs and gang members who distribute them.

Now that Gorsuch and others are creating a super-sized due process right for foreign nationals even in the context of an immigration case to fight deportation, it will apply to illegal aliens as well, including gang members and drug smugglers. It will take years to land a conviction rather than simply throwing them out, which is what we used to do. These policies will endanger our country beyond anything threatening us even in the Middle East.


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