Pirate's Cove

The number of people showing up at the border is already massive, highest in 21 years. These people know that Democrats will do all they can to make them American citizens and Democratic Party voters for free. That they don’t have to do anything but show up. And now

U.S. officials think massive surge at southern border possible if Covid restriction is lifted Thursday

U.S. officials are quietly preparing for what they think could be the biggest surge in traffic at the southern border in decades if a Covid restriction that has blocked most migrants for almost two years is lifted Thursday.

On a call this week with senior Department of Homeland Security officials, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asked whether the department was prepared for a worst-case scenario in which 350,000 to 400,000 migrants cross the border in October, according to two DHS officials familiar with the conversation.

A number that high would nearly double the 21-year record reached in July, when more than 210,000 migrants crossed the border.

The two DHS officials stressed that the estimate is not based on internal intelligence or calculations, saying it is meant to prepare the agency for what could be an overwhelming number of migrants who cross if a court order that lifts the Covid restriction, known as Title 42, takes effect at the end of the week, as is possible.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled Sept. 16 that use of Title 42, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authority implemented by the Trump administration to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 in March 2020, did not give the Biden administration the authority to block asylum-seekers from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Interestingly, it didn’t stop US officials from blocking the movement of Americans. Also, the Biden admin was mostly using that Title 42 to stop the Haitians, not other border crossers. And, really, all of the border crossers are claiming asylum, despite less than 10% being qualified.

Under Title 42, the Trump administration blocked most asylum-seekers from entering the U.S. and turned them back into Mexico, regardless of their nationalities.

The Biden administration lifted the policy for children who arrived unaccompanied, but it kept it for families and single adults.

In recent months, however, the majority of families and some single adults have been allowed to stay to claim asylum simply because Mexico lacked the capacity to take them back.

Stop enticing them to come. That would be a start, right? But, that cat is already out of the bag, based on decades of Democrats talking about amnesty. If you have to, build big tent cities with big fences and hold them till they get their asylum hearing, then kick them out. Rather than release them with a wink-wink promise to return, especially when so many are sick

Mayorkas: 1-in-5 Border Crossers Arrive to U.S. Sick with Illnesses

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says about 1-in-5 border crossers arriving at the United States-Mexico border are sick with illnesses.

During remarks at Georgetown University this week, Mayorkas revealed the extent to which federal immigration officials are encountering sick border crossers who are carrying viruses and diseases.

“We are confronted with a population of people that, as a general matter, that have a rate of illness of approximately 20 percent,” Mayorkas said, according to the Daily Mail.

He wasn’t particularly clear whether he was talking specifically about COVID, or with other diseases such as measles, varicella, mumps, tuberculosis, and others, but, the context of the discussion seemed to be about COVID.

Anyhow, this surge should work out well

Border Patrol agents must be vaccinated by Nov or face being fired: Whistleblower

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have been put on official notice by the Biden administration that they must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 1 or face being fired, according to a whistleblower who sounded the alarm to House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

“The people who have been busting their tails, enforcing our law, doing their job on the border – they’re gonna get fired if they don’t take the vaccine,” Jordan told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.

Jordan pointed out that migrants entering the U.S. illegally are given the choice as to whether or not to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, saying of the double standard, “That is how ridiculous the Biden administration has become.”

Well, perhaps we could give the illegals non-citizen status if they’ll work all those food industry and other low pay jobs that aren’t being worked now?