The Biden Border Crisis Goes Global as Aliens Enter Illegally from Farther Away
There is no way to address purported “root causes” everywhere, so focus on the loopholes here
By Andrew R. Arthur on July 21, 2021
June’s border numbers reveal a grim reality: More aliens are coming from farther away to enter the United States illegally — a lot more. The Biden border disaster is going global, as increasing numbers of aliens who are not nationals of Mexico or the “Northern Triangle” countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are exploiting the now-open border. The only way to stop them is to plug the loopholes in U.S. law that encourage illegal entry — not wasting money to address intractable “root causes” abroad.
First, some background. Before FY 2009, 90 percent of illegal migrants were Mexican nationals (almost exclusively single adult males). By FY 2012, the number of aliens apprehended at the Southwest border who were from the Northern Triangle climbed to more than 24 percent of the total.
During the “border emergency” in FY 2019, however, more than 71 percent of Border Patrol apprehensions at the Southwest border were aliens from the Northern Triangle; “just” 19.5 percent were Mexican nationals.
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