Until recently, there was still hope the Biden administration would reverse course and bring law and order back to the southern border. Those hopes were annihilated on Oct. 29, when Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas released a curt, four-page memo terminating, once again, Donald Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols.
Before the COVID pandemic, the program had successfully brought order to the southern border by ending the release of illegal immigrants into the United States. Before its creation, illegal immigrants arrested for illegally crossing the southern border would tell Customs and Border Protection agents that they feared returning to their home countries. All of these migrants had been coached on what specifically to say by human traffickers and drug cartels they paid to smuggle them to the border.
These words triggered the need for a determination by an immigration court judge as to whether the illegal immigrant in question actually deserved asylum. But since tens of thousands of migrants are exploiting this loophole every month, the immigration court system doesn’t have the capacity to hear their cases in a timely manner. The illegal immigrants were therefore released into the U.S..............
