Coverage of the immigration surge along the nation’s southern border has tapered off over the past year. Unfortunately, the number of people flooding into the country illegally, thanks to Obama administration’s indifference on border security, has not.
In fact, government records record an astounding 500 percent increase in the number of illegals who made their way into the country at some locations along the southern border in the first month of fiscal year 2016 (which began Oct. 1), compared to the same period last year.
The majority of the immigrants are not Mexican nationals but people from farther south in Central America, where news of President Obama’s unwillingness to deport illegal “Dreamers” continues to circulate more than a year after the president’s policies sparked a federal immigration crisis in late 2013.
A majority of those entering the country qualify as unaccompanied alien children and family units and are protected from deportation by Obama administration policies that instead instruct border agents to release the new illegal immigrants into the country pending immigration hearings.
The immigration tally from Oct. 1 to the end of November include: 4,450 family units from El Salvador, 3,934 from Guatemala and 3,203 from Honduras.
The hardest hit areas of this year’s rapidly building surge, according to Customs and Border Protection officials, include crossings in Big Bend National Park at Boquillas; El Paso, Texas; and Yuma, Arizona.
Border Patrol also reported that it apprehended 23,238 “Other than Mexican” illegal immigrants along the Rio Grande Valley and 35,234 along the southwest border in October and November. Alarmingly, the term “Other than Mexican” can be used to refer to illegal immigrants entering the U.S. from anywhere in the world, including hotbeds of Islamic extremism.
And according to a Senate report released in September, a growing number of immigrants to Mexico and those “Other than Mexican” immigrants entering the U.S. via its southern neighbor indeed hail from the Middle East and North Africa.
From that report:
About 1 in 40 of all migrants living in the U.S. today are from the Middle East or North Africa; however, that population has been rapidly growing. More than 1 in 10 of the annual permanent migrants resettled in the U.S. is a Muslim migrant. By contrast, only about 1 in 300 of all migrants living in Mexico today are from the Middle East or North Africa. (About 1 in 7 migrants in Mexico hail from other Latin American countries, and about 7 in 10 migrants in Mexico are from Canada or the United States) …
To provide further perspective: in 2010 there were 3,166 migrants from the Middle East living in Mexico; between 2001 and today, the United States has issued green cards to approximately 900,000 migrants from the Middle East and 1.5 million to migrants from Muslim countries. Because it’s only a ten-year figure for the U.S., that means the U.S. has permanently resettled well more than 300 times as many Middle Eastern migrants as Mexico …
And while it is promising to ramp up immigration raids, the Obama White House is also poised to continue its efforts to make it increasingly easy for people who don’t qualify as “Dreamers” to enter and stay in the nation illegally by simply claiming “credible fear” for their lives because of conditions in their native countries.
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