Despite a recent decline in border crossings due to the proliferation of alternative entry options under the Biden-Harris administration, illegal immigrants continue to flow into the United States, masking the true extent of the border crisis. .
The number of recorded illegal border crossings has decreased significantly in the past few months following President Joe Biden’s executive order regarding Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) latest border entry restrictions. data show. Despite this apparent relaxation, illegal immigrants continue to enter the United States through other means, such as the CBP One app and the CHNV program. (Related: Sex trafficking of immigrant girls has exploded under Biden-Harris administration, human trafficking expert says)
“Many people say that immigration has stopped. I dare say this is not true,” said Enrique Valenzuela, president of the Chihuahua Population Council. According to border report. “Here at this border, we are at a standstill and the flow of people appears to be halting.”
“But we are seeing an increase in interest in entering the country through CBP One,” Valenzuela continued, referring to the app that allows large numbers of foreign nationals to apply for asylum each day. “We know that because people come to us for help with their applications.”
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – JANUARY 9: US President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart shake hands during a welcome ceremony as part of the 2023 North American Summit at the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City, Mexico, on January 9, 2023. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images)
The CBP One app was first established in October 2020 under the Biden-Harris administration. Expand usage The app allows immigrants to make appointments to obtain exemptions at ports of entry and also submit biometric data to federal immigration authorities to apply for travel permits and obtain parole. It becomes possible.
From January 2023 to the end of August 2024, more than 800,000 foreign nationals made reservations through the CBP One app. According to C.B.P. The number of migrants admitted via the app roughly matches the number of Border Patrol encounters, with approximately 58,000 migrants apprehended in August and 44,700 processed via the app in the same month. .
“People who book appointments through the CBP One app do not have the right to be in the United States,” Andrew Arthur, a resident researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The Biden-Harris administration has decided to allow 1,400 of these people to make appointments per day.”
“And we know from Congressional disclosures that 95.8% of everyone who uses this app ends up on parole and enters the deportation process,” Arthur continued. “If you serve a notice to appear and go into eviction proceedings, you’re in the country illegally. That’s what the government is saying — you’ll be removed from the United States.”
The Biden-Harris administration also 500,000 foreigners They entered the country through an initiative known as CHNV, a program that grants Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans a two-year parole. In October, the White House announced that enrollees in the CHNV program, which is rife with fraud, would not have their parole renewed.
Approximately 30,000 immigrants per month were flowing into the United States through the CHNV parole program.
While these immigration efforts are underway, the Biden-Harris administration is enacting an executive order first enacted in June to limit the number of illegal encounters each day at the U.S.-Mexico border. There is. The policy appears to have curbed illegal border crossings, with monthly Border Patrol encounter rates in September at their lowest since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office, according to CBP data. .
House Homeland Committee Chairman Mark Greene, a frequent critic of the White House’s border policies, called the CHNV program and CBP One app “massive shell game” has allowed the administration to tout cuts to border crossings while the number of otherwise inadmissible immigrants entering the United States has exploded.
Meanwhile, the Mexican government is increasingly cracking down on illegal immigration to the United States via Mexico. But critics remain skeptical about how long Mexican authorities will continue to stop many of these migrants.
Photographed by Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies. big group On Monday, the number of migrants was announced in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula. He suggested they are being kept away from the U.S. border for now, but could head north after the election.
“Biden vs. Harris did this to monitor the election, had Mexico bring thousands of immigrants here to Tapachula in December, claimed low crossings of the U.S. with sardine traps, and did so during the campaign. “We made them stay away from the US media,” Bensman said. “I’ve been here five times, but this is the first time I’ve seen so many people. Stay tuned.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DCNF.
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