The crisis at the US Southern Border is part of a much larger global initiative for open societies. According to the US Customs & Border Protections statistics on encounters at the US Southern Border, border agent encounters with migrants exploded in the first year of Biden’s administration and continue to trend upward. In the final year of President Trump’s first term, there were 458,088 encounters. When Biden took over, that number more than tripled to 1,734,686. In 2022, there were 2,378,944, or more than five times the number of encounters than in the Trump administration. 2023 YTD has the numbers up more than 100,000 over the same period last year.
We’re meant to believe all these people are asylum seekers, fleeing persecution and climate-related displacement. We are told that opposing the unrestricted and unvetted entry of all of them makes you a heartless bigot who hates children and the earth.
As Rep. Jackson Lee said, “This is about the children.” She’s not wrong, but she’s also not right in the way she asserts. It is about the kids, but according to the CBP demographics, kids represent the smallest number of tracked migrants.
The first thing to understand about migrant children is that the US government does not individually track them. By law, federal authorities in CBP, ICE, DHS and HHS are not allowed to photograph or fingerprint minor children, so the aggregated numbers of migrant children provided here cannot be fully validated. The next thing to understand is that it is federal authorities completing the cartel’s most expensive and dangerous leg of the trafficking journey. This may sound impossibly incompetent, but it’s a fact.
Tonight on Culture of Change, I am joined by retired US Border Patrol Chief Todd Watkins to discuss the larger agenda for a borderless society, and the exploitation horrors that agenda is delivering in US communities.
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