Cartels And Smugglers Understand Immigration Policy Better Than The Administration

Biden vs. Every Prior Administration at the Border. The headline of that article is “Families crossing U.S. border illegally reached all-time high in August”, and credit goes to the authors — Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti, two of the best immigration reporters in the business — for putting that critical fact front and center. To be honest, everything else that’s going on at the border flows from the family surge, which is a harbinger of a rough fall at the Southwest border.

The authors of that piece say a lot, but what's unsaid is that the cartels and smugglers understand immigration policy and its implications better than the Biden administration, particularly as it relates to illegal family migrants.

The real contrast is "Biden vs. every prior administration", and nothing demonstrates that better than the fact that, in FY 2013, the Obama administration detained 82 percent of all aliens CBP encountered at the Southwest border, from the moment of encounter until those migrants were granted asylum or, more often, removed.

The Biden administration steadfastly opposes migrant detention and instead has opted to release nearly every illegal Southwest border migrant who wasn't expelled under Title 42.

Respectfully, that's just common sense: The near certainty that migrants stopped by CBP at the border will be released into the United States - where they can live and work indefinitely - under this administration is plainly driving the border disaster.

Criminal migrant smuggling organizations are preying upon these desperate populations, encouraging their migration to the border despite the dangers, especially in remote places designed to overwhelm existing USBP infrastructure, and extorting migrants along the way, thereby reaping millions of dollars for themselves and the drug cartels who also charge money to cross the border.

Why are so many family migrants entering now? Well, the Biden administration does deserve some credit for implementing a "Rebuttable presumption" that aliens who cross the border illegally without going through the Southwest ports are ineligible for asylum as part of its May 16 "Circumvention of Lawful Pathways" rule.

With due respect to Jacobs, that may sound like legal gobbledygook to the uninitiated, but the smugglers and the cartels understand it just fine: Send an adult migrant and a kid across the border illegally, and they aren't coming back.

https://cis.org/Arthur/Cartels-and-Smugglers-Understand-Immigration-Policy-Better-Administration