Why Does The Biden White House See the Status of Immigration? A Bombshell Report from the Los Alamos Center in El Paso, Central America

Some people are asking why this is a problem. Immigrants make America stronger, right? I agree in principle, but I caution that rules with flimsy standards is a recipe for chaos.

How many times has the Biden White House had an unresolved conflict between idealism and pragmatism on the issue of immigration? How many times has it hesitated to take action, preferring political messaging? The answer is the same for both questions.

Most of the officials appointed by President Joe Biden to work on immigration have resigned in frustration, according to a bombshell report from The New York Times in April. “The White House has been divided by furious debates over how – and whether – to proceed in the face of a surge of migrants crossing the southwest border,” the report said.

Some people wanted to be more open with immigrants. Others wanted a coherent set of rules to be applied to the millions of people at the border. Some people wanted a compromise with the Republicans to create a new merit-based green-card system. They all got nothing.

The White House plays politics more often than not. Early on, last year, it engaged in a rhetorical word game whether a crisis even existed. It blocked Cubans from fleeing communism while at the same time allowing over a million people to cross the border illegally.

It blamed everything on the Trump administration, while pretending Barack Obama’s executive actions hadn’t led to an explosion of families and minors crossing the border. The Biden administration points to the root causes of poverty and violence even though there are better conditions elsewhere in Central America.

Over the weekend, the US border authorities arrested more than 16,000 people. El Paso has previously been grappling with a surge of migrants.

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Legal immigrants add intelligence and strength to America. First- and second-generation immigrants have been awarded 20% of the US military’s Medals of Honor. Immigrations tend to be more patriotic than native-born people and they love the American dream.

The increasing of human traffickers and drug traffickers is a consequence of open border chaos. It turns a foreign policy strength into a national security weakness.

To be sure, there is a partisan gap, but focusing on that ignores a surprising fact. More American voters, including Democrats, Republicans and independents, support increased immigration than in the past. Gallup polls have confirmed this trend for decades.

Biden can change American refugee policy with his moment in history. He could, at the stroke of a pen, redefine how many refugees are allowed into the United States by taking advantage of the distinction our laws make between those granted temporary protection and those awarded permanent residency.

The latter group is the traditional way “refugees” are categorized: given green cards and a pathway to naturalized citizenship. According to articles I, Section 8 of the Constitution, naturalization is a congressional authority. However, foreign policy and the granting of temporary welcome to foreign refugees is entirely in the President’s power. He needs to use the power now.

That’s why redefining refugees as exclusively temporary noncitizens would be a game changer. Anyone who worries that untold millions of temporary refugees would overwhelm the nation should appreciate that some 200 million foreigners visited America annually as business, education and tourism travelers before Covid-19.

The 200,000 refugees admitted to the U.S. for Europe during Hitler’s rule in Germany is not much of a compare to the millions. Many people are claiming asylum from Honduras, which is why this year a hundred times more people have been arrested at the southwest border.

The State Department says Honduras is receiving 164.7 million dollars a year from the United States. This is wrong. Hondurans can be given refuge, or their government can be given aid.

Real tyranny is alive and well, and we shouldn’t confuse it with poverty. Beijing is being put under a state of surveillance and reeducation camps. Nearly 7 million Venezuelans have fled President Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship and are hiding in neighboring countries. There are at least 12 million Ukrainians who were displaced by the Russian invasion. It’s not as if genuine refugees are hard to find.

Why not call a dictatorship a dictatorship? The President should order the State Department to designate oppressive nations so that only their people can be eligible for asylum. It would resolve the border crisis and align with Biden’s stated values if there was a bold move. Too simple? No, the world needs moral clarity more than ever.

Mr. Blinken joined several top Biden administration officials at an event with the minister, Marcelo Ebrard, officially titled a “high-level security dialogue.” It was billed as a discussion about protecting the health and safety of American and Mexican citizens, including from gun and drug smugglers.

But immigration was inevitably a key theme of the meeting, at a moment of vast migration across Central and South America — a subject with explosive political resonance less than a month before the midterm elections.

Biden officials chose to avoid phrases like “border crisis” and emphasized that the effect of social and economic upheaval in the region is not unique to the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security is preparing temporary facilities to process migrants, including in El Paso, as well as discussing ways to return non-Mexican migrants to Mexico through existing legal mechanisms aside from Title 42, according to two Homeland Security officials who stressed there’s been hourslong meetings daily to plan for an influx of migrants.

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It has been an endless cycle since President Joe Biden took office, according to multiple administration officials and sources close to the White House. The agency officials dream up a plan but they can’t get the White House to approve it.

One Homeland Security official told CNN that everything seems to influence each other. Things will develop. People change their opinions. They lost one battle, but they did this instead.

Concerns over increasing border arrests is in part based on mass movement across the Western Hemisphere, where thousands of migrants, particularly Venezuelans, are fleeing deteriorating conditions.

According to a Homeland Security official, the White House is only serious about discussing when encounter rates rise and that there is no more big policy changes expected until after the election.

The process is often bogged down by a back and forth between the White House and DHS. The Department of Homeland Security floats proposals to the White House, which in turn requests additional information, which makes them angry with each other, sources told CNN. There are disagreements and questions over policy within the DHS.

A source familiar with internal discussions said, “These are areas that have we been working through together.”

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Last week, the administration announced a humanitarian parole plan for people from Venezuela who are fleeing their country and expanded the use of the emergency restrictions on the border.

“Encouraging robust debate, hearing different ideas, and getting lots of expertise before making policy decisions that impact millions of lives is a feature, not a bug,” said Abdullah Hasan, a White House spokesperson, in a statement. There have been improvements in rebuilding the immigration system due to this smart, deliberative, and collaborative approach.

A DHS spokesperson defended the administration’s response to what it called a “broken and dismantled immigration system” it inherited from the Trump administration.

While reversing the cruel and harmful policies of the previous administration, the administration has effectively managed an unprecedented number of non-US citizens who wish to enter the United States.

When there was a surge of children arriving from Central America, immigration was one of the first issues the administration faced. The growing flow of migrants at the border is one of the reasons that the administration’s immigration agenda is still being discussed.

The governors of Texas and Florida, in particular, seem to want to score points with potential Republican presidential primary voters by using migrants as pawns rather than drawing attention to the burden imposed on states.

For some people, that is starting to change. In October the Biden administration announced a new policy towards migrants from the South American nation of Venezuela.

The Democrats said that widening Title 42 to includeVenezuelans adds salt to an open wound and erodes the asylum system President Biden promised to restore.

When the US southern border is open to migrants, there’s a regulation that allows asylum officers to hear and decide asylum cases, in addition to an immigration court docket for migrant families. The White House released an immigration plan last year.

White House officials have been in touch with DHS officials on a daily basis, sources told CNN. The National Security Council, which has been heavily involved in migration management amid mass movement across the Western hemisphere, has also played a critical role, sources said.

“You get an appropriation from Congress, you work to meet the directions of that appropriation in ways that also match with the priorities that the secretary of Homeland Security has set, likely or in some way in coordination with the White House,” the source said.

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With poor economic conditions, food shortages and limited access to health care, the Biden administration faces an urgent challenge. More than 6 million Venezuelans have fled their country, matching Ukraine in the number of displaced people and surpassing Syria, according to the United Nations.

“These actions make clear that there is a lawful and orderly way for Venezuelans to enter the United States, and lawful entry is the only way,” he said in a statement. If you are attempting to cross the southern border of the United States illegally, you will be sent back to Mexico and will be ineligible for the next process in the future.

Last week, Alejandro Mayorkas stated that the humanitarian parole program should not be used by Venezuela’s migrants to cross the border.

Administration officials have been working with other countries to manage migration and set up protections nearer to origin countries in the Western Hemisphere.

The issue sits in the cracks of a whole set of structures at the White House, said a former Obama administration official. It’s a complex process and dealing with Logistic Management of moving people around is the only thing involved. The expansion of alternatives for access to relief is not done alone.

Cecilia Munoz, former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council under Barack Obama, said that Congress hasn’t provided new ideas about managing the movement of people.

“Every decision is fraught because the Republicans have made it so clear that they intend to make political payout of the situation. No decision is just about the merits of the action contemplated. There is political resonance to all of it.

During the call between Schumer and Klain, the Senate majority leader raised concerns about the administration’s preparation for the looming termination and whether officials were indeed considering a new asylum policy, according to two sources with knowledge of the call.

The call – one of many that have come in from lawmakers to the White House – was indicative of the politically precarious position for Biden as officials try to fend off Republicans pounding the administration over its handling of the border and appease Democrats concerned about barring asylum seekers from the US.

The December memo obtained by CNN focuses on the lifting of a public health authority known as Title 42, which has been a source of tension between Democrats and Republicans and linked to a surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border.

The end of the Title 42 orders will likely lead to disruptions and a temporary increase in border crossings according to Prelogar.

Schumer and Klain speak regularly and often daily or more in critical moments like the year-end legislative sprint currently underway. The border issue provides a glimpse into a policy and political moment.

New York Democrat Schumer has been pressing the administration to end Title 42 for a long time. Administration officials have received a steady stream of calls from lawmakers as well as state and local officials, reflecting often sharply divergent views on the merits of the authority, people familiar with the matter said. The calls, however, all echoed consistent concerns about the termination of Title 42 and what it will mean along the border in recent weeks.

It is a dynamic that has played out as officials in the Biden administration prepare for a moment. It is the latest phase of an effort that has been going on since the beginning of the year with officials aware that at some point the policy related to the swine flu would come to an end. Personnel and technology infrastructure have been directed to key entry points, with increased levels and resources expected to be announced in the days ahead.

The Biden team said Thursday that it was adding resources to the area to increase processing efficiency for immigration claims and to find ways to tackle those who illegally enter the country.

“We’re going to do the work, we’re going to be prepared, and we’re going to make sure we have a humane process moving forward,” Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday at the White House briefing.

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The administration has had to contend with a new level of difficulty with regards to the shift of migrants from one country to another at the border, due to the differing viewpoints on border policy.

Throughout, administration officials have stressed that the only viable long-term solution will come from congressional action, noting encouragement with a bipartisan framework released in the Senate last week.

Sources familiar with the discussions tell us that the bipartisan immigration deal led by Sen. Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, is dead this Congress.

The framework, which would have extended protections for Dreamers, was not likely to build traction in a brief session.

“The team has been working really hard to ensure we’re taking steps to manage the expiration of Title 42 and put in place a process that’s orderly and humane. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday that they can protect their security concerns.

If adopted, the asylum proposal would be reminiscent of a policy put in place during the Trump administration that dramatically limited the ability of migrants to claim asylum in the US if they resided or traveled through other countries prior to coming to the US. No decision has been made about the proposal.

The officials say that they are preparing for an end to the policy. They are appealing the federal judge’s ruling, stating that public health restrictions limiting migration are legal.

In it, DHS also stressed the need for congressional action to update outdated statutes and help create a functioning asylum system, as the current one is under immense strain.

“The 21st (is) going to be a disaster. Title 42 is set to end on December 21 and there are many things in the works, but nothing has been decided, an official said.

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas underscored the whole of government approach in a statement, noting that mass movement of people around the globe has posed a uniquely difficult challenge.

“Despite our efforts, our outdated immigration system is under strain; that is true at the federal level, as well as for state, local, NGO, and community partners. In the absence of congressional action to reform the immigration and asylum systems, a significant increase in migrant encounters will strain our system even further,” he said.

The partnership of Congress, state and local officials, NGOs and communities is needed to address this challenge.

Already this week El Paso had seen a significant increase in border crossings that overwhelmed shelters, sparking concern that the US government would be unprepared for the additional surge in migration that’s expected if the policy ends.

El Paso city officials said Tuesday they are closely monitoring the situation with federal, state and local partners. Mayorkas also visited El Paso on Tuesday where he met with the Customs and Border Protection workforce and local officials.

The Biden administration is also asking Congress for more than $3 billion as it prepares for the end of Title 42, according to a source familiar with the ask.

“Today’s order gives Republicans in Congress plenty of time to move past political finger-pointing and join their Democratic colleagues in solving the challenge at our border by passing the comprehensive reform measures and delivering the additional funds for border security that President Biden has requested,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

State Representative Henry Cuellar told CNN that if nonprofits can’t handle the increase in arrivals, the city may bus immigrants to other locations, like it did in the past.

Washington was battered by an argument over the southern US border being in crisis. But no one is now doubting the chaos and potential migrant surge that could be triggered by an imminent policy shift next week.

The Department of Homeland Security released an emergency six-point plan to address the crisis on Thursday as Republicans prepared to take over the House and pointed to the potential chaos as evidence of White House negligentness over the border.

Some Democrats are warning that an influx of immigrants could have a negative effect. Critics say the administration took too long to engage on the issue and hasn’t done enough, though they also fault Congress for failing for decades to reform the immigration system and border enforcement – a goal that polls repeatedly show the public supports.

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“We have a leak,” Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez said on “CNN This Morning” Thursday. Someone needs to come and stop the leak. And instead, what we’re doing is we’re sending us more buckets to hold the water.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom meanwhile told ABC News this week that the expiry of the policy known as Title 42 could overburden his state’s capacity to cope. “The fact is, what we’ve got right now is not working, and it’s about to break in a post-(Title) 42 world unless we take some responsibility and ownership,” he said.

Lisa Monaco told CBS News that she was worried about an increase in illegal migration. New York City is facing a problem with immigrants who have already arrived as they brace for more.

And in another setback to Biden’s efforts to end some of Trump’s controversial immigration policies, a federal judge in Texas has paused the administration’s most recent attempt to end the so-called “Remain in Mexico” program, which sends certain non-Mexican citizens who entered the US back to Mexico – instead of detaining them or releasing them into the United States – while their immigration proceedings played out.

Some members in the new GOP House majority seem more determined to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a high crime than to work to find a solution to the country’s problems, as a result of Trump’s double impeachment.

The epidemic of deaths from Fentanyl in the United States is coming from Mexico, where it is often found used in pseudoephedrine from China. But they also spent four years indulging Trump’s obsession with a border wall that does little to stem the influx of the narcotics that mostly comes through border checkpoints, concealed in vehicles by drugs cartels.

There’s no doubt Title 42 has become a policy officials frequently turn to at the border, but it’s not the only way migrants’ cases are handled. In a CNN analysis of 10 months data earlier this year, the public health restrictions were applied in about 50% of migrant encounters.

She argued at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June that no migrant wanted to leave home but that many were forced out by dire conditions. Harris wants private investment so that they can mitigate poverty that leads people to flee. There hasn’t been much evidence recently that her efforts are bearing fruit or that the issue that brings the most political peril is her priority.

Any permanent solution to border issues would involve a massive investment to secure the frontier, with barriers where it makes sense but also with new tracking technology and manpower where walls don’t help. It would address the plight of undocumented migrants brought to the US as children who are known as Dreamers. It would also allow for long-term path to legal status for millions more undocumented migrants, expand asylum courts to speed up claims, and reform the system of legal immigration and visas for migrant workers needed to address economically damaging labor shortages in agriculture and Catering industries.

The United States Supreme Court granted a request from the GOP and agreed to decide in February whether states that disagree with the policy should be allowed to intervene in defense.

But the DC Circuit US Court of Appeals on Friday denied the states’ request to intervene in the case and dismissed as moot their request to put the lower court’s ruling on hold.

The states request to get involved in the case is oddly timed, and that could make intervention against them difficult.

The lead counsel for the case, Lee Gelernt, told CNN in a statement that they were deeply disappointed but would continue to fight to end the policy.

The program was struck down by the judge last month. But Sullivan put his ruling on hold for five weeks so that the Biden administration would have time to prepare for the policy’s wind down. The program was lawful if the federal public health authorities determined it was no longer necessary, according to the administration.

On the ground, the rule has not deterred unlawful migration. Since its implementation, the policy has been used to expel migrants — including many asylum seekers — about 2.5 million times. But many migrants are still allowed in: The Biden administration carved out a number of humanitarian exemptions for vulnerable migrants. Migrants from certain countries also cannot be repatriated because of strained diplomatic ties, and, at times, border agents have been unable to return migrants to Mexico because of shelter restrictions there.

The border crisis that Respondents seek to cause would cause enormous harms to the States, according to a filing submitted last Wednesday.

They argue that the “greatly increased number of migrants that such a termination will occasion will necessarily increase the States’ law enforcement, education, and healthcare costs.”

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The states requested to keep the policy in place, but they were opposed by the Biden administration.

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The Biden administration is also appealing Sullivan’s ruling, but has said it’s continuing with its preparations to end Title 42 expulsions as ordered on December 21.

Before, D’Agostino said, increases in migrant populations crossing the border were gradual and over a series of months. He said it was rapid and over a few days.

Immigrant advocates and public health experts have long denounced use of the public health authority along the US southern border, arguing it was an inappropriate pretext for barring migrants from entering the United States. In the three years since, the authority has been used to turn away more than two million migrants.

After Sullivan’s ruling the debate was resuscitated as word spread of the increasing numbers of immigrants crossing in El Paso.

Immigration advocates have argued that Title 42 was meant to block asylum seekers’ access to protections because it was intended to protect public health. The American Civil Liberties Union argued in a recent court filing that the invocation of the Nation’s public health laws cannot be done without an asserted public health rationale.

Title 42 could be lifted, so the way migrants are processed at the border could go back to how it was before 2020. Under that system, migrants are either removed from the country, detained or released into the US while their cases make their way through immigration court.

A source said that the Department of Homeland Security projected between 9000 to 15000 migrants would attempt to cross the US southern border daily when Title 42 ends.

Thousands of Ukrainians seeking refuge to cross the border were granted exceptions after the policy drew attention to itself earlier this year.

As many migrants from Central America and Haiti continue to be turned back, advocates argue that a racist double standard is at play. Federal officials said that each exemption is granted on a case-by-case basis.

Biden told reporters the immigration restriction will be enforced even if he thinks it’s time to remove it.

Since that time, the policy of expelling migrants from the country has been enforced by the immigration authority for single adults and some families.

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It urged the court to delay the ending of Title 42 until at least December 27 because of ongoing preparations for an influx of migrants.

The administration said that the states, led by Arizona, do not have the legal right to challenge a federal district court opinion that had vacated the program and ordered its termination by Wednesday.

The deadline was temporarily frozen by Chief Justice John Roberts and he asked the Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union to weigh in.

The last-minute legal wrangling comes as federal officials and border communities have been bracing for an expected increase in migrant arrivals as early as this week as the issue of immigration continues to ignite both sides of the political divide. The Department of Homeland Security has been putting in place a plan for the end of the program that includes surging resources to the border, targeting smugglers and working with international partners.

In court papers Tuesday, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar stressed that it would be highly unusual for the court to allow the states to step in at the last minute when they had not been an official party in the dispute at hand.

“The government in no way seeks to minimize the seriousness of that problem. She wrote that the immigration solution cannot be to extend indefinitely a public health measure that has already outlived its purpose.

“The record in this case documents the truly extraordinary horrors being visited on noncitizens every day by Title 42 expulsions,” Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the families, wrote.

A senior US Customs and Border Protection official tells CNN that policy discussions are still underway, and that they are going on as if nothing has changed.

Migrants have been waiting at the Mexican border in anticipation of the end of authority so they can make their claim of asylum in the US. As temperatures drop, desperation has grown among migrants as immigrant advocates try to give them information.

The official said that there might be a few that won’t cross until they get the message. “There are some already committed who will cross.”

The justices were told by Brnovich that they should put the lower court ruling on hold. He suggested that the justices should grant an immediate injunction and also consider whether to skip over the appeals court and agree to hear arguments on the merits of the issue themselves.

Failure to grant a stay will hurt the States a lot, as they bear a lot of the consequences of immigration.

The original challenge was brought by six families that were subject to the Title 42 process after crossing the US-Mexico border.

The American Civil Liberties Union argued in court papers that Covid-19 was always a thinly veiled attempt to increase immigration control. There is no basis to use a purportedly public health measure to change immigration laws even if there is a valid public health justification.

According to the author, courts should not be in the business of regurgitating administrative edicts because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency.

It’s a victory for Republican attorneys general who asked the court to keep the restrictions in place, not because of a public health emergency, but because they say removing the restrictions would likely cause a surge of illegal immigration.

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Meanwhile, migrants are continuing to arrive at the southern border in large numbers and the Biden administration has yet to announce a long-term plan on asylum.

El Paso, Texas, has become the center of the crisis because many migrants have crossed the border there. Some of the migrants who were sheltered at the convention center have had to sleep on the streets in cold temperatures, despite the fact that several unused schools and hotels had been opened for them.

In its order, the court also agreed to take up the states’ appeal this term. The court said it would hear arguments on the case during its argument session.

Both Justices said they would deny the application but did not explain their thinking. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch also dissented and explained his thinking in an order joined by liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“We will continue to manage the border, but we do so within the constraints of a decades-old immigration system that everyone agrees is broken. The department wanted Congress to pass the comprehensive immigration reform legislation President Biden proposed the day he took office.

Biden said that the court will not decide until June, but that he thinks it’s time to enforce it.

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar acknowledged to the Supreme Court last week that returning to traditional protocols along the border will pose a challenge, but said there’s no longer a basis to keep the Covid-era rules in place.

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Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union, who are representing families subject to Title 42, had in arguments underscored the dangers faced by asylum seekers subject to the authority and sent back to Mexico.

CNN has learned that the Department of Homeland Security warned about domestic violence related to the anticipated lifting of the border restriction just days before the Supreme Court halted it.

The memo reads, “So far we have observed calls for attacks targeting primarily migrants and critical infrastructure but our insight into DVE plotting is constrained by these individuals’ use of online security measures to limit exposure to law enforcement.”

Threats to the United States are more complex and unpredictable due to foreign interference and calls for violence.

Grievances over immigration policy and animosity toward immigrants have previously fueled extremist acts, including the 2019 Walmart shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed 23 people and left another 23 wounded. Authorities said the accused shooter wanted to kill immigrants and Mexicans when he drove to the border city.

The December memo notes violent tactics discussed on social media against migrants including firearms attacks, the placement of land mines along migration routes, and getting migrants into trailers to poison them with gas. Other users discussed shooting electrical substations near the US-Mexico border, likely to disrupt immigration facilities.

“We have not previously observed calls for substation attacks in response to immigration-related concerns, and these recent discussions may stem from widespread media coverage of recent attacks against other substations across the United States, particularly in Moore County, North Carolina,” the memo reads.

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Mr. Miller tried to use Title 42 before the swine flue hit, but he was stopped by border stations that were already suffering from the flu. In most cases, he was talked down by cabinet secretaries and lawyers.

The idea of immigrants bringing infections into the country is not new, but it is different to the idea of minorities being associated with disease.