Three states have sued the Biden administration to stop it from lifting the application of Title 42, the law that permits immigration authorities to expel illegal aliens summarily for health reasons. Reason for the lawsuit: The Americans in those states will pay the price when a hurricane of illegals overwhelms border agents.
Yesterday, President Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson, said without saying it that he agrees.
Appearing on Fox and Friends, the former DHS chief explained what is obvious to all — except Biden and the leftist ideologues who back him. They see the surge as a means to replace and dispossess the American people with new Democrat voters.
Border States Want a Secure Border
Based on a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), last week, Biden announced that he will lift the Title 42 expulsion policy, begun by President Trump in 2020 to battle the China Virus pandemic, on May 23. Administration officials predicted that 18,000 illegals per day would hit the border.
Almost immediately after the announcement, the three states sued not on practical grounds, but because Biden violated the Administrative Procedures Act.
Johnson takes their side. The invasion must stop.
“I am convinced that most Americans want us to treat migrants in this country fairly, humanely,” he said on Fox and Friends:
They want us to take care of the DREAMers, who are a remarkable group of de facto Americans who grew up in this country. Most Americans, I believe, want to give people who have been in this country for ten or more years an opportunity to get on the books. But most Americans also want a secure border. If you go to Laredo, Texas, for example, [Democrat Representative] Henry Cuellar’s district, 85 percent Mexican American, overwhelmingly Democratic, they want a secure border. I know. I’ve been there. I’ve heard this.
Most Americans want border security, of course, but Biden won’t listen. Obsessed with bringing in new Democrat voters, he’s done everything he can to send the message to the Third World that the borders are open and free stuff is available.
He and his Homeland Security Secretary, Cuban visa fraudster Alejandro Mayorkas, openly brag that they will not enforce immigration laws. He imported 12,000 Haitians who showed up at the border in September, just after he lied about and attacked his own border agents for doing their jobs.
This Can’t Go On
To his credit, Johnson told the truth, despite being a Democrat who obviously voted for Traitor Joe.
Speaking of the illegals hitting the border now, he added that “7,000 a day is not sustainable, in multiple respects”:
It overwhelms the communities in Texas and Arizona that have to absorb this population. It overwhelms Catholic Charities. It overwhelms the Border Patrol and ICE and their ability to keep up with these numbers. And obviously, it overwhelms the Biden administration politically. This is affecting his approval ratings. The — we just have to — we have to enforce border security and we have to send the message that we are enforcing border security.
But Biden, again, is sending the opposite message: The border is open; come on in. And bring the family, too.
“I used to go to Central America,” Johnson continued:
I would stand at the bottom of the stairway for the plane returning back to Guatemala and Honduras and bring the cameras to show people in Central America that we were actually sending people back. Immigration is a very market-sensitive phenomenon. It reacts sharply to perceived and real changes in our enforcement policy up here. So, the lifting of Title 42, I’m sure that news is circulating right now in Central America. If I had had my druthers, and I don’t, I would have argued, can we lift this perhaps later in the summer when it gets hotter and the numbers do slow down? We’re right now in the peak season. But longer-term, you’ve got to deal with the push factors.
Longer term, in fact, the application of Title 42 must remain in place, and not just because of the China Virus. Illegals are not only unvaccinated against myriad diseases once thought wiped out in this country, but also bring in scabies, mumps, typhus, Chagas disease, chicken pox, and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
At least for now, the border must close. Since the first full month of Biden’s presidency, border agents have handled more than two million illegals.
H/T: Breitbart
