Migrants arrive to US border from all over the world: 'We are seeing a permanent change'
By: Anna Giaritelli (MSN)
This has to stop.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Migrants from countries far beyond Central America are increasingly arriving at the country's borders under the Biden administration, specifically to come across the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and risk getting caught.
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Since the start of the government's fiscal year in October 2020, Border Patrol agents nationwide have encountered significantly more people from the Caribbean, Central Europe, and South America than last year. Although migrants from Mexico and Central America make up roughly 75% of all illegal immigrants at the northern, southern, and coastal borders, far more people from other countries are arriving. Some have traveled thousands of miles and across oceans for the chance to get into the United States, predominantly by walking across the southern border.
"We are seeing a permanent change in migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. And now it's expanding," said Theresa Cardinal Brown, managing director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington. "We're seeing huge increases in people, not from the Central American countries and not from Mexico, which means this is now just the migration route."
Border Patrol agents who work along U.S. borders saw a 13,951% increase in Venezuelans taken into custody between June 2020 and this June, BPC's Grace Kluender wrote. This comes as more than 26,000 Venezuelans have fled political repression and dire economic circumstances.
From Ecuador, a country of 17 million people located on the northwestern tip of South America, more than 54,000 people have been encountered by U.S. border authorities over the past nine months — five times more than at the same point last year.
Further south in central South America, Brazilians are also leaving. Nearly 30,000 Brazilians were encountered at the border, compared to fewer than 9,000 the previous year. Last June, just 80 Brazilians were apprehended. The 6,678 Brazilians seen last month is an 8,248% increase. The coronavirus pandemic hit Brazil harder this year than last, prompting domestic crises that citizens are attempting to flee.
Cuban apprehensions increased from 14,000 as of June 2020 to more than 26,000 last month. Migration from Haiti is up 2,906% in the same period.
More than 34,000 people from the Philippines and 4,369 Romanians were stopped at the border. The "other" category of migrants, whose home country could not be determined, doubled to more than 37,000 this year.
While the change in migration patterns is obvious, Brown said, the federal government is focused on responding rather than planning. For example, while the Border Patrol has responded to this 21-year high in illegal immigration at the border by putting up tents to hold and release people from custody, it ought to make plans to deal with it if it continues or worsens.
The Biden administration's focus on resolving the "push" factors that prompt people from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to migrate to the U.S. also needs to change to include factors that prompt people from other countries to come, Brown said. Otherwise, Central American migration will drop, but global migration to the U.S. will continue to rise.
"What about Nicaragua? What about Brazil and Venezuela? What about Haiti? What about Ukraine and Romania? And Congo. What are the root causes there? How are you going to manage that?" Brown said.
The Border Patrol's "enforcement mentality" does not consider how human migration differs from smuggling drugs, firearms, money, and other items.
"They're just lumping it all together in saying we have to secure the border from all of it when the motivations and the rationales and the people you're dealing with are very different," Brown said. "We don't control when people arrive. And we have to manage them once they do. And it's got to be that balance of treating people in a humane way but enforcing the rules."
The reactive approach of taking people into custody before sending them back to their home country or allowing them to live in the U.S. could be replaced with a proactive approach, Brown said.
Lora Ries, senior fellow for homeland security at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington, said the U.S. government ought to take an individualized approach by considering each person's cause for fleeing rather than situations in countries as a whole.
She said most people migrating from Central American countries don't meet the criteria for asylum, "but this administration, like the Obama administration, wants more people to get into the U.S., to remain in the U.S., and to be given asylum."
Original Author:Anna Giaritelli
Real nice policies you've got there. Although you have kept one of the effective ones from your predecessor.
Why do some want more people here?
The USA is overpopulated and we have enough problems already
Got to keep that voter base going!
immigrants in the gop imagination
4,369 Romanians were stopped at the border
This is a surprising number, Romania is not a 'shithole', far from it.
As if "At the border" was at Trump's Wall. People fly into the US then overstay there visas. Despite the racist histrionics of the racist righties the real problem is not Mexicans who have been going back and forth between the US and Mexico forever. Walls cannot fix what ailes our immigration system...
Can you fucking read for once??
Perhaps you can enlighten on the subject of the ailing immigration system and tell us how you would fix it.
Thanks.
The article is unclear as to how Romanians are getting in, but its tenor suggest via the Southern border.
We could start with an honest dialogue which this piece of crap article does not inspire...
Unless we stop foreigners from traveling into and out of the country there is no way to stop illegal immigration except by enforcing all immigration laws. Referring to all points and methods of entry as "Immigrants at the border" is being intentionally misleading. Why should we believe the author is doing that?
Exactly, and that is intellectual dishonesty!
Looks to me like they made it perfectly clear,
"Migrants from countries far beyond Central America are increasingly arriving at the country's borders under the Biden administration, specifically to come across the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and risk getting caught."
And this..............
"Referring to all points and methods of entry as "Immigrants at the border" is being intentionally misleading."
Except they aren't doing that.
""We are seeing a permanent change in migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. And now it's expanding," said Theresa Cardinal Brown, managing director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington. "We're seeing huge increases in people, not from the Central American countries and not from Mexico, which means this is now just the migration route."
I don't think anyone is saying we can stop ALL illegal immigration. But when we have the blatant illegal "migration" at our southern border in the hundreds of thousands and we know it, we can put one hell of a dent in probably more that 50% of it.
Are you really still trying to sell Trump's Wall?
Game of Thrones shit Dark Ages technology!
I read a number of Anna Giaritelli's reportings, she appears to be straightforward and does not flood her articles with the usual anti-Dem tropes. Compared to the usual tripe seeded by some members on the right, she is a breath of fresh air.
Have you seen the gaps left open where people come through? Only 450 miles got built when he was in office and a lot of that was replacing shit.
And please don't get all high and mighty on the wall "not working". You nor I can know that for sure since it isn't there. As the people in Syria or Turkey if it works. or some of these...........
Biden sure as hell is wasting a ton of taxpayer money not to build it!
Democrats have no interest in securing our borders. They are looking to get enough future Democrat voters to ensure they remain in power forever.
Well, one guy is trying to sell his section...
Yeah I saw that. I thought it was weird to spend all those millions to sell it. I think he was hoping that GovCo would buy it. Don't think that's gonna happen.
It seems they don't have a problem if the "right people" (white) immigrate to the US. Folks seem to only have a problem with the non-Caucasian immigrants.
But that have to play the race card. They think it will any conversation.
Don't hold your breath.
Gee there's a thought! Why don't we try it for a change. Trump was beginning to do just that and all the lefties were crying about how mean that was.
Republicans have no interest in securing the border because they don't want to lose their favorite talking point.
When Obama tried to address the issue, the GOP told him, "no".
Yet no where in that entire ramble does it state come break our laws. That includes immigration laws.
I hear Canada is nice; and has a hell of lot more room and a hell of a lot less people than the US. Maybe we should just bus all illegal immigrants to the northern border and drop them off. See how Canada likes the problem?
That will never work. Canada has rules that govern immigration into Canada, they don't just allow anybody to walk in.
And the words written on the Statue of Liberty, they come from a sonnet written in 1883. Some people might say that the world might have changed a bit since then.
Canada also shares a very wide open border with the US. They can't cover all points of entry.
Of course once in the illegals would get expelled.
Besides, Canada gets damn cold in winter. Not sure those from Central/South America and other warmer island climates would stay there anyways. Chances are they would just cross the border into the US again. We are such pushovers.
Canadian immigration laws include due process too.
It gets warmish in July.
As to immigrants, from tropical islands to jungles to desserts Canada has many and they all become acclimatized rapidly.
Not nearly enough- we can send millions upon millions more.
Southern Ontario (Toronto) gets 5 months of winter with snow - mid November to mid-April. It's worse out west save for the warmer Pacific coast cities like Vancouver. It's been said that Canada has 4 seasons: Starting Winter, Winter, Finishing Winter, and Construction. Bound to not be particularly attractive to migrants from tropical places.
How many refugees and illegal "overstayers" does China allow?
Why do you feel it's appropriate to try to make Buzz answerable for the actions of China Jim?
He lives there. I asked for information. Is there a problem?
That doesn't explain your 'question' Jim.
China's actions have NOTHING to do with US border policy.
And an expat from Canada living in China has nothing to do with US border policy either.
Strawman Jim.
Actually, it does.
That would depend on how many times Buzz enters the US. As you know, this Brit expat living in Canada has a story or two about entering the US.
I coudn't count the times I've entered the USA (not even mentioning the amount of time and places I've been in the USA, even owning property there) - the first time was when my mother carried me as an infant in a basket to visit relatives in Baltimore, and the last time was for my son's wedding in that same City.
I'm a member of TheNewsTalkers, and have been for a lot longer than you and since you made it a topic on TheNewsTalkers I have every right to comment on it, even if I were from the planet Mars.
That outdated poem should be replaced with a NO VACANCY sign. The place is full now.
So do you encourage states with dense populations to deny companies that would draw people to migrate from less densely populated states from opening?
After all, they're 'full' right?
Maybe states should pass legislation that requires companies to hire ONLY state residents.
I mean, there are SOME states are sparsely populated and would benefit from migration and or immigration.
Citizens are free to move around the country, People who illegibly cross our national borders or overstay visits should not be here at all
But we're FULL right?
If we can't take in more people in the country as a whole because we're FULL, it should follow that states that are FULL should try to control immigration from other states.
How many acres should each person in America have? We're at about 7 acres now and our fertility rate isn't keeping up with the replacement rate. How low do you want the population to go?
Or ... just ship it back to France?
Right wing Republicans problem with illegal immigration at the Southern Border has little to do with our being "full" and more to do with their being brown. We know this because they don't really complain about the illegal immigration coming from our northern border.
"Canadians, not Mexicans, represent largest number of visa overstays in the U.S., according to Department of Homeland Security"
"For 7th Consecutive Year, Visa Overstays Exceeded Illegal Border Crossings"
Actually, it has NOTHING to do with citizenship Tex.
They sure as hell CAN restrict it from certain locations. Many states did so during Covid.
If Canadians overstay it's because they can afford to.
Sad thing is, if they know this and can gather stats, why the hell don't they do something about it? I don't get it.
I think it's because it's not as visible as a bunch of brown skinned migrants at the border seeking asylum that scare the bejesus out of white religious conservatives who fear the supposed browning of America and a shrinking of their perceived "white culture". Also, the visible boogeyman at the southern border is far easier to turn into a political weapon by right wing politicians to demonize their opponents than the millions of white English speaking undocumented immigrants that blend into society. They're both just as "illegal", one is just far scarier to a certain bigoted segment of American society.
" They're both just as "illegal" - and no one ever said they weren't........................
This had been a fairly decent discussion until you felt the need to plug all that bullshit in. We are done. Have a nice weekend.
Never needed a visa to enter the USA and I've entered the USA hundreds of times in my lifetime, and bet I've traavelled through more of America than a lot of Americans. Of course I never stayed more than a few weeks at a time.
We have several million of them and more coming all the time.
Enough is enough.
Emma Lazarus' sonnet, "The New Colossus", was a contest donation to an auction created to raise money in order to build statue's base. Her inferences to immigrants refer to LEGAL immigration (via Ellis Island), not ILLEGAL immigration.
This well-documented article explains its history. There are many others.
Red herring.
There was NO 'ILLEGAL immigration' through Ellis Island in 1882 Jasper. The discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 what the ONLY immigration law that made immigration 'ILLEGAL', the vast majority of Chinese came through via Angel Island.
Incorrect. I replied to comment 6 with facts regarding the history of Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus".
Please show me exactly where in comment 6.5 I claimed that there was.
Correct.
Your reply included a red herring OPINION Jasper. Own it.
Whoosh, right over your head.
Jasper, there was NO illegal immigration, other than from China [west coast], in 1883. So of COURSE, it follows that her poem was about 'LEGAL' immigration.
It sounds like we weren't asking to the "cream of the crop" with that poem. We were willing to take those who wanted a better life.
'The Star Spangled Banner' is a poem.
And the tune was plagiarised.
Yes, and we still are ... as long as they emigrate LEGALLY.
Only if the US and England had reciprocal copyright agreements in the 18th and 19th centuries. The composer of "The Anacreontic Song" was British. There have been several attributions as to the original composer of this collegial (not bar room) song.
Finally, I highly doubt that the US Congress and a US president would have codified "The Star-Spangled Banner" into law if "the tune was plagiarised", thereby breaking copyright agreement law(s).
You could be correct:
The U.S. was long a net importer of literary and artistic works, especially from England, which implied that recognition of foreign copyrights would have led to a net deficit in international royalty payments. The Copyright Act recognized this when it specified that “nothing in this act shall be construed to extend to prohibit the importation or vending, reprinting or publishing within the United States, of any map, chart, book or books … by any person not a citizen of the United States.” Thus, the statutes explicitly authorized Americans to take free advantage of the cultural output of other countries. As a result, it was alleged that American publishers “indiscriminately reprinted books by foreign authors without even the pretence of acknowledgement.” The tendency to reprint foreign works was encouraged by the existence of tariffs on imported books that ranged as high as 25 percent.
The United States stood out in contrast to countries such as France, where Louis Napoleon’s Decree of 1852 prohibited counterfeiting of both foreign and domestic works. Other countries which were affected by American piracy retaliated by refusing to recognize American copyrights. Despite the lobbying of numerous authors and celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic, the American copyright statutes did not allow for copyright protection of foreign works for fully one century. As a result, American publishers and producers freely pirated foreign literature, art, and drama.
Actually Tex, as all of 'our readers' can see for themselves you stated:
So NO, your didn't 'call' anything a poem.
Yes, and most of 'our readers' will acknowledge that adulation for the 'Star Spangled Banner' was part of Trump's 'government policy'.
The definition of plagiarism doesn't hang on whether it's 'legally' copyrighted.
You were talking about POEMS Tex. Here is your comment:
The Star Spangled Banner is a POEM and the right uses it to enact government policies.
The context of your post is perfectly clear, hence my reply.
Many years before the Internet, I wrote a paper about our national anthem for a Music History course I took, so I know quite a bit about this topic.
Actually, no. The poem that Francis Scott Key wrote in 1814 is entitled "Defence of Fort M'Henry". In it, he describes the battle and, specifically, further freedom from England's authoritarian enslavement.
It was set to music and eventually became the USA's national anthem. I've sourced this in other comments.
Thanks to the Internet, it's much easier to find information about this topic today should you wish to read more.
Please read:
And, with this comment, I will no longer engage. Have a good weekend.
So it IS a POEM set to music. Thanks for playing...
Yep, to me.
Thanks for proving my point.
I believe most of "our readers" are getting tired of posters changing meanings of words to fit their "gotcha " narrative.
Yet you persist.
Hmm,
Personal attack? Don't believe I am the subject of the article.
As far as replying to my post, I don't believe I mentioned anyone by name.
Seems by you going on the defensive in your post, you are feeling a little guilty.
And so many of them insist on repeating the same bullshit over and over.
Sad to go to those levels simply for attention.
Just what government policy has been enacted by the Star Spangled Banner?
Trump spent 4 YEARS wrapping himself in the flag and insisting that anyone that doesn't stand for the Star Spangled Banner is a traitor.
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And you do think that anyone that doesnt stand for the National Anthem is a TRAITOR?
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You are confused . Here is what a traitor looks like
BTW i am still waiting for an answer to my question to ypu in comment 6.6.27
If not a traitor they are damned close to being one. There are millions that have fought for our flag and for that anthem and many of them have died for them. Not standing is a slap in the face to each and every one of them.
if you disagree I will help you pack and contribute for a one way ticket to Cuba for you. And if you are offended, I DONT CARE!
Your opinion of those who protest the anthem doesnt mean a thing to me, but I am curious, do you agree that Michael Flynn is a traitor? He did call for a military coup to overthrow the 2020 election.
And still no answer. The US code is not policy.
Problem is that when you engage with certain posters, and they are found to be wrong over and over, they will resort to cherry picking links provided, change the meaning they think it is, then say you are wrong for the part of the link they changed the meaning of.
Don't be surprised when that happens with this link,
Excellent question, but still without a legitimate answer.
The US Code is the ULTIMATE codification of US policy.
The United States Code is the codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is divided by broad subjects into 53 titles and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. The U.S. Code was first published in 1926. The next main edition was published in 1934, and subsequent main editions have been published every six years since 1934. In between editions, annual cumulative supplements are published in order to present the most current information.
It looks like you are quoting a source 1st. You SHOULD post a link to protect NT.
AGAIN, link website quotes for copyright reasons 1st.
To revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws , related to patriotic and national observances, ceremonies, and organizations, as title 36, United States Code, Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations''.
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More and more Cubans are coming through our southern border than risking the dangerous over water routee.
It's hilarious that the USCG is patrolling the waters between Cuba and America and turning Cuban political asylum seekers back, yet anyone from any country can waltz across the border between Mexico and America and be greeted essentially with open arms, COVID positive or not even tested (that must piss of the Canadians!).
Your comment is a fantasy.
Fantasy these
Reality must suck for those in denial.
So they ARE tested and ARE in detention facilities.
Thanks for playing.
Canadians could not care less about your Southern border.
I apologize for my earlier departure but I went to the range with my family and we all had a great time honing shooting skills and competing with each other.
Now as to the reply of “Dulay”.
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Provide the words that I wrote that indicate I ever made that claim. I’ll make it easy and advise you that will be impossible as I never did. The closest that some might construe as something remotely close to your claim is this from my initial post:
yet anyone from any country can waltz across the border between Mexico and America and be greeted essentially with open arms, COVID positive or not even tested (that must piss of the Canadians!).
Yet nowhere in that statement did I say none are tested nor did I say anything about being detained.
Good try but an abject failure
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Enjoy your day and weekend.
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Where may I ask did I say that they did? It’s simply that BOTH sides of the Canadian border are essentially pissed and hoping to get back to a normal situation and enjoy the tourism dollars that each brings to the other.
But, I will say that both sides wish it were as easy to cross the Canadian border as it is the illegal alien entry on the southern border.
I’ll provide this as fodder for reading if interested.
You claimed:
Then posted a link that refutes that claim.
YOUR link states:
So they aren't 'waltzing' they're being detained by CBP AND since the ONLY way to confirm they have Covid is to test them, the ARE being tested.
Thanks for playing...
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