Since anyone who knows geography better than AOC understands that 15,000 Haitians didn’t walk from Hispaniola to the Mexican border, a question arises:
How did the current Haitian wave of illegals end up massing in Del Rio, Texas?
An immigration researcher learned the answer in a very simple way — by asking the migrants themselves.
And here’s the short answer: the Biden administration.
Now for the details. First, here’s how bad the situation is:
It’s no wonder the Biden administration’s FAA had banned Fox News from flying over the area. A picture is worth a thousand words — and the above pictorial prose is damning. (Fox’s drone is back in the air. Fox fought the law — and Fox won, at least for now.)
And because we have the pictures and proof, many are asking:
Correct. Though the left-wing immigrationists have oft implied that (im)migrants are better than Americans, even Haitians can’t walk on water.
As the below illustrates, it would be quite a trek, too.
“We do have one clue,” writes pundit Andrea Widburg, who compiled the above and below tweets. “Open-borders Democrats are promoting a phony narrative to argue for letting them in.” Just consider former HUD secretary and Democrat presidential candidate Julián Castro (pronouns, “He/Him/Él”), whose father was an illegal and who disgorged what follows.
Fortunately, though, Haitian migrants are more honest than certain illegal-alien-sired American politicians. So when Center for Immigration Studies researcher Todd Bensman went to the border to question the Haitians themselves on the whys to explain where, he learned the truth.
“The surprising answer, which the migrants provided independently in different places and at different times, was universal: on Sunday, September 12, the Mexican government effectively sent a mass of migrants it had bottled up for months in its southern states up to the American border,” related Bensman. “This move, which appears to have been done under the cover of Mexico’s independence week of celebration known as El Grito, essentially foisted a humanitarian problem onto the Americans in a single week.” (Hat tip: Widburg again.)
“A quick background is necessary to understand what the migrants were saying,” Bensman continues. “In short, when it was newly installed in January, the Biden administration began to pressure Mexico to maintain and use its National Guard and immigration bureaucracy to slow the flow of expected caravans and of tens of thousands of Haitians and other migrants coming in from all over the world. This was a fairly quiet diplomatic campaign, and it coincided with billions in promised U.S. aid and other benefits such as covid vaccines. It was a different approach from the Trump style of threatening to damage the Mexican economy with tariffs unless the leadership slowed U.S.-bound illegal immigration coming through Guatemala.”
What happened was that the Biden administration apparently reneged on this deal (by design?), angering the Mexicans and inspiring them to release the formerly corralled, border-busting throng of Haitian migrants.
Bensman also discovered why the Haitians chose Del Rio as the invasion site. They learned that unlike other illegal crossing points, the cartels didn’t control Del Rio; the Haitians could thus pass there without having to pay the criminals off. Note, too, that “it certainly helped matters for them that Joe Biden halted the border wall,” writes Widburg.
There’s also another factor, as Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) points out below.
“Supposedly, the deportation flights are starting up, but that is going to present problems, too,” Widburg then tells us. “Based on a report from the New York Times a day or so ago, most are not actually from Haiti anymore[;] they are resettled refugees from countries such as Brazil, who cannot claim refugee status since being settled. They are economic migrants who are now country-shopping for better benefits packages and prospects.”
In keeping with this, these migrants are not generally destitute and downtrodden. They look healthy, have decent clothes and, often being nicely muscled, apparently are well fed. As with past illegals, some may even have cell phones.
Yet there’s something else they may have: COVID-19. This doesn’t bother the Bidenites, however. In fact, how does the following grab you: While the administration wants to force coronavirus genetic-therapy agents, a.k.a. “vaccines,” on you and your fellow citizens, illegal aliens are exempt (along with Congress and its staff)?
Also defying rationality, though, was the administration’s decision to dispense with Trump’s stick approach and try to bribe the Mexicans into stemming illegal migration. Oh, this is par for liberals’ course (as witnessed by their child-rearing). The latest example is San Francisco’s plan to pay potential criminals not to shoot people.
This is counterproductive not just because it guarantees continual threats of misbehavior, along with some actual “object-lesson” transgressions, in order to perpetuate the tribute. It also corrupts civilization in general — inclusive of the transgressors themselves — because it tacitly equates regular right action with “heroic virtue”: It sends the message that doing the right thing isn’t obligatory but is some special favor. This is akin to giving a soldier medals not for performing above and beyond duty’s call, but for merely doing his duty; or giving an employee hazard pay for regular work.
Widburg additionally points out that the Mexico affair illustrates how the Bidenites are losing the United States respect on the world stage. The kicker here is that “regaining” it was a supposed reason leftists wanted President Trump replaced. Remember the “Any Functioning Adult 2020” bumper stickers?
Given Joe Biden’s mental state, how ironic is this now?
