The White House is planning to use roughly 100 illegal immigrants as justification for its radical mass-amnesty legislation, as President Joe Biden announced the temporary continuation of “Title 42” amid illegal immigrants pouring over the southern border from Mexico.
This comes after Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott dropped off the last busload of illegal immigrants at Vice President Kamala Harris’ backyard on Christmas Eve, which drew a complaint from the White House on Monday.
Texas has bused roughly 16,000 illegal immigrants to the sanctuary cities of Washington, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia over the course of several months. Even though it may seem like a lot, the “encounters” with illegal immigrants at the border are only two days worth.
These state-funded, voluntary bus trips serve two purposes: first, they provide some relief to the small border communities that are suffering as a result of Biden’s mass releases of illegal immigrants; and second, they compel the national media to report on a border crisis that they would prefer no one to notice.
The administration engaged in its own political game while dismissing the bus trips as “political games.” The U.S. Citizenship Act was a bill that even its Senate sponsor, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, admitted had no chance of passage even in a Democratic-controlled Congress.
However, White House spokesman Abdullah Hasan insisted that the bill can reach the president’s desk through bipartisanship.
“We are willing to work with anyone — Republican or Democrat alike — on real solutions, like the comprehensive immigration restructuring and border security measures President Biden sent to Congress on his first day in office,” Hasan said.
The U.S. has been seeing massive migrant numbers since Biden announced in April that he would be lifting “Title 42,” a controversial border policy implemented by former President Donald Trump back in March 2020 that allowed the border agency to turn migrants away.
Since then, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reported that nearly 2.4 million migrants were detained at the border for the fiscal year ending in September, breaching the already-historic 1.7 million migrant detainees last year.
The numbers are likely only to increase with the impending ending of “Title 42.” The DHS has said repeatedly that it has a six-point plan in place to deal with the imminent influx in population that it anticipates will occur.
That plan includes an increase in resources and manpower, as well as a greater use of alternative authorities—such as expedited removal and penalties for unlawful crossings—more frequently.
