Report Reveals Smugglers and Cartels Are Now in Charge of Immigration Policy
Agents can’t arrest, and prosecutors won’t prosecute; Congress should call 'El Mayo' for answers
By Andrew R. Arthur on June 2, 2021
In a post last week captioned “Washington Won’t Let Border Patrol Arrest Human Smugglers Offloading Aliens Right in Front of Them”, my colleague Todd Bensman reported that agents at the Southwest border are under orders not to arrest smugglers ferrying migrants entering the United States illegally. Given this, the Biden administration has effectively ceded control over immigration policy to those smugglers — or more precisely to Mexico’s criminal cartels.
Formally, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is the roadmap for alien admissions to the United States. That broad document contains plenty of latitude for the administration (regardless of which one) in implementing the rules governing visas, travel to this country, and actual admissions.
Asylum is a major exception to the strict rules that prohibit foreign nationals from entering the United States at their whim. That said, however, from that post by Bensman and his other reporting, it does not appear that Border Patrol is actually screening illegal migrants to see if they have a fear of persecution (a requirement for asylum relief).
https://cis.org/Arthur/Report-Reveals-Smugglers-and-Cartels-Are-Now-Charge-Immigration-Policy
