Biden may have to lift asylum crackdown on border after DHS report says crossings have plummeted



The Department of Homeland Security says that border crossings have plummeted so much that the Biden administration may have to lift a crackdown order.

President Joe Biden ordered that asylum applications would be shut off unless the applicant arrived through an official port of entry, but that order would end if immigrant apprehensions dropped below 1,500 on a daily basis.

Monthly illegal crossings soared to a historical high of nearly a quarter of a million in December 2023.

"The Departments have determined that the 1,500-encounter threshold is a reasonable proxy for when the border security and immigration system is no longer over capacity and the measures adopted in this rule are not necessary to deal with such circumstances," the regulation reads.

According to a CBS News review of internal DHS figures, the seven-day average of immigrant apprehensions between ports of entry has dropped to 1,650 and is likely to meet the cut-off point soon.

If Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas finds that the threshold has been reached, the crackdown order will end 14 days later.

However, one senior official from U.S. Customs and Border Protection told CBS that the agency didn't expect to reach the threshold.

"We're not in a place yet where we're a day ... or days away from being below 1,500," the official reportedly said.

Monthly illegal crossings soared to a historical high of nearly a quarter of a million in December 2023, but the latest figures from DHS say immigrant apprehensions are headed to registering about 60,000 this month.

Republicans have been beating up the Biden administration with story after story of illegal aliens committing heinous crimes in the country in order to criticize their lax border policies. Polls show that most Americans blame Democrats for the immigration crisis.

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Biden is DEPORTING a law-abiding, Christian family despite leaving the borders WIDE OPEN for illegal aliens



A Christian family from Germany who fought for asylum to homeschool their kids in the United States is now facing deportation, even though they have been living in Tennessee for 15 years.

The Romeikes pulled their kids from Germany’s public school system over concerns that it was indoctrinating their children and attacking family values. Germany has strict education laws, which effectively ban homeschooling.

In 2014, the Obama administration’s Department of Homeland Security granted “deferred action” status to seven members of the family, but the government is now going after them.

Without any explanation, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer told the family they had four weeks to apply for German passports ahead of their deportation.

Glenn Beck is disturbed that the Biden administration is going after a law-abiding, Christian family while keeping the border wide open to illegal immigrants.

“With the hundreds of thousands that are coming across our border every month illegally, and the left says it’s all about asylum and persecution: This case IS,” he says, before being joined by the persecuted father, Uwe Romeike, and his attorney, Kevin Boden.

Romeike tells Glenn that if they are forced back to Germany, they would face losing custody of their children, fines, and possible jail time.

He goes on to explain that what his children were being taught in school “was diametrically against what we as Christians believed, so there were so many reasons we didn’t want them to go there again.”

Even the two eldest Romeike children, who are both adults who married Americans, are facing deportation.

“They applied for citizenship, but the paperwork hasn’t gone through yet,” Romeike tells Glenn, “so they are now all included in the deportation order.”

“I am so disgusted by this. This is truly a family that needs asylum. They don’t have the First Amendment in Germany. We have it here to protect people. This is what it means to bring in those who are persecuted, not the hundreds of thousands of young men without families coming across our border in the middle of night,” Glenn says.

“This is one I will go and camp outside of their house and surround their house with like-minded, loving Christian people who will just not break arms on our knees. We just go and kneel around their house in droves and we lock arms and we just pray for this family.”


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Judge sides with Biden admin and orders Gov. Abbott to remove floating border barrier



Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was dealt a blow in court on Wednesday when a judge sided with the Biden administration and ordered a floating border barrier to be temporarily removed.

Abbott had ordered the 1,000-foot line of buoys as a deterrent against illegal aliens seeking entry into the U.S. by wading or swimming across the Rio Grande.

“Governor Abbott announced that he was not ‘asking for permission’ for Operation Lone Star, the anti-immigration program under which Texas constructed the floating barrier," wrote federal District Judge David A. Ezra in his ruling.

"Unfortunately for Texas, permission is exactly what federal law requires before installing obstructions in the nation’s navigable waters,” he added.

Illegal alien activists have called Abbott's efforts to end illegal immigration inhumane and unjust.

“The buoys are a symbol of the hate-filled and inhumane policies Gov. Abbott has embraced as he continues to wage war on immigrants seeking to make better lives for themselves, as millions of other immigrants have done for hundreds of years in this country,” said activist Carolina Canizales.

Abbott's office immediately said that it would appeal the ruling.

“Today’s court decision merely prolongs President Biden’s willful refusal to acknowledge that Texas is rightfully stepping up to do the job that he should have been doing all along,” read a statement from Abbott.

“We will continue to utilize every strategy to secure the border, including deploying Texas National Guard soldiers and Department of Public Safety troopers and installing strategic barriers," the statement added.

The U.S. Department of Justice had filed the lawsuit against Texas in July and argued that the governor had not obtained the necessary authorization for the barrier. The lawsuit also claims that the barrier threatens foreign relations with Mexico.

Ezra went on in his ruling to opine that the lawsuit would likely succeed on the basis that Texas needs a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in order to construct barriers in navigable water. He has ordered Abbott to remove the barriers by Sept. 15.

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Even Beto O'Rourke is slamming President Biden's latest effort at the southern border: 'It does not make sense'



President Biden's continued mishandling of the immigration crisis at the southern border has turned several members of his own party into critics. Now that list even includes notable progressive Beto O'Rourke.

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate knocked the president this week for ending Title 42 — a Trump-era rule that allows border agents to turn away illegal immigrants over COVID-19 health concerns — without a plan to stem the massive tide of migrants seeking entry into the country.

“It does not make sense to end this until there is a real plan and the capacity in place to handle those and address those that come over,” O’Rourke told the Texas Tribune on Tuesday. “I have yet to hear a plan from the Biden administration to address the dynamic we will have on the border once Title 42 ends.”

The rebuke is somewhat surprising given that O'Rourke was a frequent critic of the federal government's use of Title 42 during the Trump administration. However, political winds appear to have shifted on the issue, as illegal immigration continues to rock border communities.

The Biden administration announced it would end the emergency health order in May to a flurry of criticism. A Morning Consult survey found the move marked the administration's most unpopular policy to date, topping a lengthy list.

Many — including current Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) — fear it's all but inevitable that with Title 42 no longer at agents' disposal, the number of migrants showing up at U.S.-Mexico border crossings will surge to even higher levels.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), too, called the move a "frightening decision" that will surely lead to the worsening of an already unprecedented crisis. He was soon joined in disapproval by Arizona Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema.

Sensing the changing sentiment, O'Rourke settled on a new perspective on the order, offering some critique while maintaining his opposition to the border enforcement measure.

“What [Title 42] has done is produced a situation where the same person is crossing multiple times a week, and under [the order] that Border Patrol agent simply turns that person back around and then that person tries to cross the next day,” he argued. “They’re not arrested, not detained, there are no consequences for someone who is not following our laws when they try to come into this country, and it means that this country is not following its laws when it comes to those who are trying to make a legitimate claim for asylum.”

But, he added, “Everyone is legitimately concerned about the lack of a plan. We should hold the federal government accountable for doing its job, and they’re not doing that.”