Is anyone else getting the idea that Biden’s border EO is basically election season smoke and mirrors?
Mayorkas defends Biden’s executive action — but doesn’t say when it might start working
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday defended the Biden administration’s new executive action on the border — an order that aims to get the average of migrant encounters at the border to 1,500 or less.
It’s a level that has not been seen since President Joe Biden took office. And Mayorkas could not confirm if that level will be seen before Election Day. The order, focused on people seeking asylum at the border, was initiated five days ago.
“We are at a very early stage. Implementation, as you noted, has just begun,” Mayorkas said in an interview with host Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “It’s early, the signs are positive. Our personnel have done an extraordinary job in implementing a very big shift in how we operate on the southern border.”
When asked about when we will actually see this goal reached — and whether the effects would realistically become apparent soon or before the election — Mayorkas did not disclose any timing.
It should be pretty easy, right? You simply direct that the order be implemented. That you shut things down, because encounters are above 1,500 a day. Myorkas hems and haws. And, as the article surprisingly says, “danced around” why Biden is doing this now. But, what’s really happening
An internal Border Patrol memo, obtained by Fox News, instructs agents in the San Diego sector to release single adults from all but six countries in the Eastern Hemisphere and classify them as “hard” or “very hard” to remove.
The memo was sent out after President Biden’s executive order banning asylum for most illegal immigrants took effect last week.
Details in the memo, first reported by the Washington Examiner’s Anna Giaritelli, instructs agents that all single adults from the Eastern Hemisphere are to be processed via “NTA/OR,” which means Notice to Appear/released on Own Recognizance, except for migrants from Russia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan – which are “mandatory referral” countries.
There are more than 100 countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, meaning that despite the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and President Biden’s threats of consequences and promises to remove migrants who cross illegally under the new executive order, the overwhelming majority of the migrants in the San Diego sector are being released into the U.S.
This order only applies to this one sector, not the rest of the border. Of course, there may well be localized orders for the other sectors. And, the thing is, the San Diego sector is seeing more than the others since Texas passed their strict law to arrest illegals. Regardless, you can see that Biden followed one order to restrict the border with another to leave it wide open and just let them go with a wink wink promise to appear.
And notice that this is single people. Which mostly means young, fighting age males. What of all the Chinese nationals and Middle Eastern men crossing the border? Just let them go?
In Israel, the news of four hostages rescued from Gaza was met with cheering crowds and tearful scenes of reuniting families. Officials hailed the operation as miraculous and heroic, and offered a rare win for Israel’s embattled Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
One of the major drivers of the exceptional heat building within Earth’s atmosphere has reached levels beyond anything humans have ever experienced, officials announced on Thursday. Carbon dioxide, the gas that accounts for the majority of global warming caused by human activities, is accumulating “faster than ever,” scientists from NOAA, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California San Diego found.
