"The Biden Administration is Overwhelming Us with Policy-Made Catastrophes, Cloward-Piven Style"
AOF: That quote is from Scott Johnson of PowerLine, pointing to the piece below by Byron York. (I assume people understand the Cloward-Piven reference. If not: https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/clowardpiven-strategy-cps)
The United States is being stolen from its ordinary citizens.
Remember when the Biden administration said the surge of illegal crossers at the U.S.-Mexico border, which gathered steam in February, March, April, and May, would abate when hot weather arrived? "We've dealt with this before," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on March 26. "It is often seasonal."
[N.S.: Communist local politicians, like racist, kleptocrat, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are fond of saying the same thing. A few months ago, he said the nightly riots and bacchanals (including open-air sex) in Manhattan's Washington Square Park would "naturally" abate.]
Then, of course, the hot weather came—and so did even more illegal border crossers. June, July, and August saw record numbers of illegal crossers drawn by administration policies that make it likely that they will be allowed to stay in the United States.
And now, Del Rio. In the past week, thousands of illegal crossers, most of them Haitian, have flooded the tiny Texas town of Del Rio. Overwhelmed Border Patrol agents are trying to process them under an international bridge at the border, where the shade can give some relief from 100-plus degree temperatures. It appears that there are about 10,000 illegal crossers gathered right now, with little food, water, sanitation, or medical care. [N.S.: Just like back home in Haiti!] Thousands more are expected.
Del Rio's mayor is frantic with worry. "I thought the worst-case scenario was having a couple of people, maybe 150 people roaming the streets," Mayor Bruno Lozano told the Washington Post. "This is probably a worse case of worst-case scenarios."
The border at Del Rio is out of control. The Washington Post describes illegal crossers getting in line for Border Patrol processing, receiving a number, and then crossing back into Mexico to charge their phones and buy food. Why go through all that? Because they know they will ultimately be allowed to stay in this country. "Most of the migrants [sic] are likely to be released into the United States with a notice to appear in court at a future date," the Washington Post reports.
In the last few months, the Biden administration had stopped repatriation flights for Haitians in the U.S. illegally, and it also offered what is called Temporary Protected Status to Haitians, shielding those here illegally from deportation. Those actions were taken before an earthquake hit Haiti in August, killing an estimated 2,200 people.
Many of the Haitians who have arrived in Del Rio had left their country long before the quake. "More than 29,000 Haitians have arrived over the past 11 months," reports the Washington Post. "Some say the economic toll of the pandemic pushed them to leave, while others see a more welcoming U.S. administration offering them a fleeting opportunity to reach the United States." So they are coming now.
But this is not about Haiti. While the latest flare-up of the border crisis involves thousands of Haitians, the fact is, over the last several months, Border Patrol officials have detained people from at least 90 countries all around the world crossing illegally into the U.S. It's not just Mexico or the Northern Triangle area, either. Ninety countries.
They're all drawn by one thing: the belief, encouraged by the Biden administration, that if they can manage to cross the border into the U.S. illegally, they will be allowed to stay. Given Biden's policies, that is an entirely rational calculation on their part.
Remember that from his first days in office, Biden threw out President Donald Trump's Remain in Mexico policy, which required asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims were adjudicated in the U.S. Now, illegal crossers know they will be allowed to stay in the U.S. during that period, which often stretches for years.
Also, Biden threw out a Trump agreement with the Northern Triangle countries requiring those countries to take in migrants. Then Biden selectively stopped applying rules that allowed U.S. officials to return illegal crossers in the interest of controlling the spread of COVID-19. Then Biden stopped giving many illegal crossers a so-called "notice to appear" in court at a later date, allowing them to enter the U.S. with no commitment to pursue a legal process. And in the campaign, of course, Biden pledged to halt all deportations, all of them, for 100 days. Together, Biden's actions sent a clear message: Come to the U.S., cross the border illegally, and you can stay.
So the surge at Del Rio is just the latest disaster that is Biden's border policy. It's not an accident. It is not an unintended consequence. The president and his top aides formulated these policies knowing full well they would create powerful new incentives for would-be migrants to cross illegally into the U.S. And now it's happening, more and more and more.
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