Even the globalist UN thinks Biden is failing at the border.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a United Nations agency, released a report this month in which it laments the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, calling the meeting point between the two nations “the deadliest land crossing in the world.”
The report looked at data from 2021, allowing for a stark contrast with the condition of the border during the Trump era.
“With 1,238 migrant deaths and disappearances recorded, 2021 was the year with the highest number of lives lost in the Americas since 2014, when the Missing Migrants Project (MMP) began documenting migrant deaths,” IOM’s findings read. “A significant increase compared to figures recorded in 2020 (798 deaths) and even before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 (854 deaths).”
“At least 728 of these deaths occurred on the United States-Mexico border crossing, making this the deadliest land crossing in the world, according to the data,” the report adds.
The report’s authors blame “[m]obility restrictions enacted in response to the pandemic” for creating a “funnel effect” that drove migrants with limited resources to dangerous routes on their way to the wealthier United States.
Because the problem, according to IOM, is that migrants lack “options for safe and regular mobility” (by which they mean a closed U.S. border that makes unauthorized entry into the country illegal), their solution is to open up the border and make it as easy as possible for third-worlders to freely travel to and from the United States.
“States must honor their commitments – in the Global Compact for Migration, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and elsewhere – to save migrant lives and prevent further deaths and disappearances.”
Most of the migrants making up the death toll were “unidentified” individuals whose country of origin could not be determined.
“Our data shows the growing crisis of deaths during migration in the region, and the need to strengthen the forensic capacity of the authorities to identify deaths on these routes. We cannot forget that every single number is a human being with a family who may never know what happened to them,” said Edwin Viales, who authored the report.
What IOM doesn’t dwell on is the fact that there were one-third fewer deaths in 2020 — when Donald Trump was president.
Naturally, fewer people are inclined to make a life-threatening journey across the border and end up dying if they know it won’t serve them in any way. But if would-be migrants know there’s an administration ready to receive them with open arms, work permits, welfare, and amnesty, they’re more than willing to take that risk.
This has been one of the pitfalls in the Biden approach to the border crisis. Although the current White House’s migration policy has outwardly been driven by lofty mantras like “oh the humanity” and “think about the children,” the sad truth is that the reality of such supposed altruism is the complete opposite of humanitarianism.
The horrific scene last week in which over 50 migrants were found dead in a tractor-trailer abandoned outside San Antonio is a natural consequence of the reckless messaging that has been typical of the federal government since Joe Biden stepped into the Oval Office.
But at least in conservative and Republican circles, the consensus is moving away from the middle-of-the-road, milquetoast, moderate approach on immigration that has so often characterized what is considered “acceptable.” The mainstream political Right is increasingly waking up to what the “far Right” has been saying for years: Unchecked mass migration is the equivalent of an invasion and poses an existential threat to the nation.
Several Texas counties this week declared an “invasion” at the border to put additional pressure on Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to take stronger action to curtail illegal immigration.
“We’re being invaded. The facts are there,” said Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan, per the New York Post. “This is real. We want America to know this is real. America doesn’t know what’s happening here.”
Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution guarantees to every state protection by the federal government against invasion. But if the federal government is the one enabling the invasion, states must be willing to take defensive measures into their own hands.
