Spikes in Rescues and Dangerous Criminal Apprehensions Show the Border Is Open
Current ICE restrictions are a Mobius loop of stupidity and non-enforcement
By Andrew R. Arthur on June 22, 2021
Border Patrol search-and-rescue efforts at the Southwest border have spiked this year, as have arrests of aliens with criminal convictions (including sex offenses). As counterintuitive as it may sound, these increases reveal — contrary to recent contentions of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and others in the Biden administration — that the border is wide open. They also show that Biden’s restrictions on ICE are imperiling both Americans and illegal migrants.
First, the facts. Thus far in FY 2021, Border Patrol agents at the Southwest border have performed 6,898 searches and rescues — 36 percent more than in all of FY 2020 (5,071) and a 40-percent increase over FY 2019 (4,920).
Keep in mind that FY 2019 was not the halcyon “good old days” along the border, except in comparison to the present disaster. Then-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen declared a “border emergency” on March 29, 2019, based upon “a cascading crisis at our southern border”. At the time, Nielsen asserted, bluntly: “The system is in freefall.” The current secretary should be so honest (or aware) about what’s going on.
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