Mayorkas Says Border Isn’t Open But Biden Admin Authorizes Release of Migrants Into America Without Court Dates
“The memo calls the practice ‘parole with conditions’ as migrants are required to make an appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or request a Notice to Appear by mail.”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned migrants waiting at the border for Title 42’s expiration that the border is not open:
MAYORKAS: “I want to be very clear, our borders are not open. People who cross our border unlawfully and without a legal basis to remain will be promptly processed and removed. An individual who is removed under Title 8 is subject to at least a five year ban on reentry into the United States and can face criminal prosecution if they attempt to cross again. Smugglers have been long, hard at work, spreading false information that the border will be open. They are lying.”
MAYORKAS: "Our borders are not open" pic.twitter.com/32rTpq9XWk
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 11, 2023
The Border Patrol apprehended over 10,000 migrants on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Title 42 allowed America to expel migrants quickly due to COVID.
Biden’s administration wants to use its authority under Title 8 to handle the border crisis. All that does is “impose steep penalties on migrants who cross the border illegally, including a minimum five-year ban on reentry and potential criminal prosecution, according to the secretary.”
.@PhilipWegmann: "[T]here were more than a million apprehensions, but…more than 530,000 gotaways, that's roughly the size of…Baltimore. How would you say…the border is not open?"
Mayorkas: "We removed…1.4 million…last year. Ask those…if they think the border is open" pic.twitter.com/p6sSHmvdkS
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 11, 2023
The border is not open but a memo sent out by the head of the border patrol gives officials permission to release illegal immigrants into America without court dates:
The memo says that migrants can allowed into the country on parole — a process typically reserved for “urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit” — if CBP faces overcrowding. The memo calls the practice “parole with conditions” as migrants are required to make an appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or request a Notice to Appear by mail.
Under a parole release, migrants are rapidly released into the country, do not get an alien registration number and do not receive a court date.
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) May 11, 2023
There are a few rules, though, but not many:
The use of parole is being authorized if a sector capacity goes above 125%, if agents apprehend 7,000 a day over 72 hours or if average time in custody goes above 60 hours.
Agents have been encountering over 10,000 migrants a day since Monday, and there are no signs of that slowing down with the looming end of Title 42, which is expected to bring an even bigger wave with it.
The memo noted the enormous numbers agents are encountering.
“For the past 7 days, USBP has averaged over 8,750 encounters per day. This is over double the average daily encounters of 4,284 in May of 2019, the highest month of the 2019 surge. Even with significant personnel along the SWB, a significant detention capacity, and interagency resources supporting the effort, this situation requires urgent action,” the memo states.
What say you, Mayorkas?
DHS Sec. Mayorkas to @JacquiHeinrich on releasing illegal immigrants if centers are overcrowded & asking them to self-report: "[I]t is not an honor system. What we do is we use the resources that we have to meet the challenges…The vast majority…will…be placed in…removal" pic.twitter.com/PLA9b4epsB
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 11, 2023
.@JacquiHeinrich: "Will you be on shaky legal ground…w/mass releases? It's supposed to be on case by case basis?"
Mayorkas: "Well…your question has a factual predicate with which I would disagree about mass releases…Releases…is not…particular to this administration." pic.twitter.com/krxPBwdH3A
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 11, 2023
.@JacquiHeinrich: “It’s supposed to be a case by case basis and this would not be a case by case basis.”
Mayorkas: “We–we–we implement our operations in conjunction with the Department of Justice and we have confidence in the lawfulness of our actions.” pic.twitter.com/7mBaatL7EZ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 11, 2023
Plus, how much will the crisis cost the American taxpayer? Mayorkas dodges the question:
MAYORKAS: “Let me turn that question around a little bit, because I’ll turn it around to match the question that an international partner asked of me, and the question that the international partner asked of me is, ‘What is the economic cost of your broken immigration system since there are businesses around this country that are desperate for workers, there are desperate workers looking for jobs, desperate workers in foreign countries that are looking for jobs in the United States, where they can earn money lawfully and send much needed remittances back home.’ What is the cost of a broken immigration system? That is the question that I am asked, and that is the question that I pose to Congress because it is extraordinary.
REPORTER: “But the cost that the taxpayers are paying now?”
MAYORKAS: “I believe I have addressed your question.”
"What's the rough cost to American taxpayers since the roughly four million people have come into this country illegally since January 2021…?"
Mayorkas: "Let me turn that question around a little bit" pic.twitter.com/OVyzGF2ZK1
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 11, 2023
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See hat happens when the left controls the language. open means closed.
“Biden Administration declares the border is secure!”
Using advanced surveying equipment in conjunction with the latest GPS technology it was determined that border has moved less than one inch over the last 50 years and is therefore secure.
This man is a traitor. It’s that simple. And so is his boss, Biden. There’s no debate anymore. They’re working to destroy the fabric of our society, and they’re succeeding wildly.
And what will be done?
Sweet Fanny Adams.
Baghdad Mayorkas
It’s more like Benedict Mayorkas. This is a traitor.
“What is the economic cost of your broken immigration system since there are … desperate workers in foreign countries that are looking for jobs in the United States, where they can earn money lawfully and send much needed remittances back home.”
Under what authority are you wasting our wealth concentrating on helping “desperate workers in foreign countries” instead of our own native workers and citizens?
The lies are brazen, and too many people pretend for the team. The really don’t care what happens to these people. Mayorkas receives an A+ in cruelty from teacher Biden, and the voters for these people should be ashamed.
– “The border is closed.”
– “So, then you are sending them back, right?”
– “No. We are releasing them into the US. Without a court date.”
– “But then the border is actually OPEN.”
– No. The border is closed.
– ( ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ) Are you serious?
– Yes and it’s the Republicans fault
Gross incompetence or intent? They had 2 years to plan for this day. Every last one of them should be put in a “sanctuary city”, starting with DC.
Intent.
Looking like a case of carefully planned incompetence or perhaps impotence is more accurate.
I am an old man. Old enough that when I was in K-12 they still actually taught world history, albeit by that they meant Euro-centric history. Granting it was a long time ago [although post-log cabin schoolhouses] But I remember some history about the fall of Rome. As in the Goths were fleeing the Huns and came to the Roman borders. They worked out a deal whereby the Goths were given some empty Roman land to farm and live in, with part of the crops going to Rome, and were liable to military service for Rome. It did not work out as planned.
When it all ended a generation or so later, the Goths under Alaric captured and sacked Rome for the first time in the 800 years of the Empire in 410. Rome was sacked and destroyed again in 455 by the Vandals [who were smart enough to take down the aqueducts rendering the city helpless], and again in 476 by the German leader Odoacer; ending the Empire.
Granting that the Goths came in from the east, and our current hostile foreign invaders are being welcomed across our southern borders; but in my long life I have learned that while history does not exactly repeat itself, it rhymes like you would not believe.
Biden is a pretty pitiful stand in for Belshazzar.
Subotai Bahadur
And no one is doing anything!
We are being invaded and no one is doing anything
We are so screwed
“The invaders were released on their own recognizance.”
This is one arrogant prick. He steels himself before public appearances by donning a stoic, repulsive, face mask, and is keenly alive to immediately brazening his way through every question with bold, unapologetic lies. He is a man it would thrill me to see brought down low. At least Merrick Garland presents as a trembling, guilty, shame faced, little weasel. This man is pure evil.
Well I called my congressman Carter
Senator Cruz
Senator Cornyn
Governor Abbott
Once again
I’m sure they will be writing stern letters to Biden, very super stern
and probably do a couple of outraged TV hits then say there is nothing they can do until they have all the branches of government…wait a second….didn’t we hear that before?
We have plenty of potential workers already in the US. The folks who we are told are in ‘poverty’. The fact is that nearly 90% of able bodied working age adults listed as ‘below the poverty line’ do not hold full time employment. Mostly b/c they don’t want to as a 2,000 hour year, 40 hour week X50 would put them above the threshold for far more lucrative govt handouts that allow them to sit on their ass most of the time only working side hustles usually for cash.
The border isn’t open; they are *opening* the border, by moving people otherwise caught and stopped into the country.
Another righteous policy victory, on the way to The Glorious Revolution. Comrades.
It’s a invasion brought to us by the Marxists, the world’s poor are coming.
Impeach him. Put all of the House on record of whether they support gross dereliction of duty resulting in the invasion of our country.
If it passes the House, then the fun will really start.
The Border is secure and not open you bunch of Ultra Maga Extremist Neo Nazi White Supremicist Bigots! Now go eat your bugs cooked over your wood stoves and shut up