Washington Examiner by Paul Bedard 4/27/2022
President Joe Biden’s 15-month dismantling of U.S.-Mexico border protections and policies has essentially eliminated efforts to keep illegal immigrants out of the nation, according to the nation’s front-line sheriffs.
“We simply have no border left in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, or Southern California,” said the nation’s sheriffs in a four-paragraph letter to Senate leaders and provided to Secrets.
The letter, signed by Jonathan Thompson, the executive director and CEO of the influential National Sheriffs’ Association, and dozens of top sheriffs, was law enforcement’s latest support for keeping in place Trump-era COVID-19 restrictions known as Title 42, which Biden wants to set aside.
But even with that policy in place, said Thompson, Biden’s team has encouraged 1 million border crossers in just six months, and he warned that the surge had hidden other criminal adventures by illegal immigrants.
“This letter addresses Title 42 so we won’t speak about the amount of fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, ghost guns, ammunition and other deadly substances flowing across our border at this very moment. We the undersigned Sheriffs call for the Congress to keep Title 42 and help save American lives,” he wrote.
In pressing for retaining COVID-19 restrictions, the sheriffs said: “The administration since day one, phased out remain in Mexico (overturned by courts), reversed asylum restrictions, implemented 100 day pause on deportations and stopped building the barrier which defines our border. Now, the administration is ending one of our most effective health measures, Title 42, which seeks to return illegal immigrants to their home country during this pandemic. Today, there are thousands of immigrants in the jungles of the Darien gap headed to the US border. We simply don’t know their health status and implore you to keep Title 42 as the last policy we have to keep Americans safe from COVID and a host of other communicable diseases carried by these immigrants.”
NATIONAL SHERIFFS’ ASSOCIATION
April 19, 2022
The Honorable Chuck Schumer
The Honorable Mitch McConnell
322 Hart Building
317 Russell Building
Washington, D.C. 20510 Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Leaders:
On behalf of the National Sheriffs Association and the Border Sheriffs of this Nation, we write
today to lend our voice to keeping Title 42 authority for Customs and Border officers intact. Title 42 is a public health authority used by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to protect against the spread of communicable disease. The CDC is affirmatively seeking to rescind this policy on May 23, 2022. Title 42 is the only policy provision left since January 2022 that helps to stop the unhealthy (no COVID testing) border crossings by millions of illegal entrants to our Country.
We simply have no border left in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas or Southern California. The Administration since day one, phased out remain in Mexico (overturned by courts), reversed asylum restrictions, implemented 100 day pause on deportations and stopped building the barrier which defines our border. Now, the Administration is ending one of our most effective health measures, Title 42, which seeks to return illegal immigrants to their home country during this pandemic. Today, there are thousands of immigrants in the jungles of the Darien gap headed to the US border. We simply don’t know their health status and implore you to keep Title 42 as the last policy we have to keep Americans safe from COVID and a host of other communicable diseases carried by these immigrants.
We have already reached the million-illegal immigrant mark in just 6 short months. This letter addresses Title 42 so we won’t speak about the amount of fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, ghost guns, ammunition and other deadly substances flowing across our border at this very moment.
We the undersigned Sheriffs call for the Congress to keep Title 42 and help save American lives.
Respectfully,
Jonathan F. Thompson
Executive Director/CEO
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