Biden admin to send migrants from the border deeper into US cities, and DHS officials jokingly call it the 'Abbott plan'



The Biden administration is planning to send migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border deeper into U.S. cities, and some officials jokingly refer to the operation as "the Abbott plan."

The report from NBC News said the administration is exploring the possibility in order to deal with the massive surge of migrant crossings at the border.

The joke from Department of Homeland Security officials refers to actions taken by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to send migrants to Washington, D.C., as a way of rebuking President Joe Biden's lax immigration policies.

The administration is reportedly going to send the migrants to cities including Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Houston, and Dallas.

Migrants who are applying for refugee status are allowed to stay in the United States while their applications are being processed. Officials expect a massive surge of migrants after Biden cancelled the "stay in Mexico" policy put in place under the Trump administration in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

A DHS spokesperson said to NBC News only that a final decision on the policy had not yet been made.

“Should a decision be made,” said the spokesperson, “DHS will continue to closely coordinate with and support cities and NGOs to facilitate the movement of any individual encountered at the Southwest border who is placed into removal proceedings pending the next steps in their immigration proceedings.”

Biden had publicly announced his goal of providing a "pathway to citizenship" for the millions of illegal aliens already in the U.S., estimated to be between 11 million and 22 million. His plan has been thwarted by the stalemate in the U.S. Senate and the cratering popularity of Democrats and their policies.

Illegal alien advocates have excoriated Biden and other Democrats for not doing enough in their estimation to secure amnesty for illegal immigrants.

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Portland rioters violently demand end to deportations one day after Biden temporarily halted deportations



Rioters in Portland, Oregon, once again targeted a federal immigration enforcement facility Saturday night, demanding an end to deportations of individuals illegally residing in the United States. They apparently took no pleasure in the fact that only a day before, President Joe Biden had announced a 100-day pause on the practice.

What happened?

The group of rioters descended on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the riot-ravaged Pacific Northwest city late Saturday night, forcefully calling for the wholesale abolishment of borders and any legal action against illegal aliens, Fox News reported.

"No borders! No nations! Abolish deportations!" the protesters chanted at one point, according to video of the scene posted on social media.

“No borders. No nations. Abolish deportation!“The crowd is marching on ICE in Portland again tonight. https://t.co/qeKlll4KFS
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The crowd was classified as an "unlawful assembly" and ordered to leave the premises by law enforcement officers from the Federal Protective Service, a subset of the Department of Homeland Security.

"If you trespass on federal property with a weapon ... you will be arrested," officers reportedly announced in a pre-recorded message over a loudspeaker.

Federal agents eventually discharged a fogger and other crowd control methods in order to disperse the crowd.

But Biden halted deportations

The protests over the weekend were just the latest in a string of recent uprisings starting last Wednesday, the day of Biden's inauguration.

During his first full day in office, the newly elected Democratic president issued a number of executive orders, one of which enacted sweeping changes to immigration enforcement policy, including "a 100-day pause on deportations for some undocumented immigrants."

The move was met with swift denunciation from conservatives and the threat of a lawsuit by the state of Texas.

But the deportation pause is not the only immigration reform Biden plans to enact. He has also promised to provide a speedy pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants currently residing in the country illegally.

It's not enough

But the changes are evidently neither broad nor forceful enough for some of the country's more radical leftists.

Rioters in Portland told CNN over the weekend that their anger is fueled by an assumption that Biden will ultimately refuse their most urgent demands such as to abolish ICE and defund the police.

One rioter told the outlet "there is a lot of anger and rage" over social inequity among Americans, and that vandalism is how some choose to express their anger.

Another said: "It doesn't matter who's president: Black lives don't matter ... they don't care about us. They just don't."

Last week, Antifa rioters in Portland attacked police and vandalized the city's Democratic Party headquarters, spray painting "F*** BIDEN" on the building.

Some of the protesters carried a sign that read: 'We don't want Biden, we want revenge!'

Thousands marching in migrant caravan to US demand Biden administration 'honor its commitments'



Thousands of migrants from Central America are on their way to the United States, and a migrant activist group representing the caravan is calling for the Biden administration to honor its "commitment."

As many as 8,000 migrants from Honduras have entered Guatemala since Friday, Guatemala's immigration authority informed Reuters. Guatemalan authorities said they already had detained hundreds of Honduran migrants from the caravan.

Videos show the massive caravan bust through a wall of law enforcement officers at the Guatemala border.

Caravan from Honduras busting through Guatemala Border in route to the USAhttps://t.co/ZSdFqGLzxb
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A group from the Central American migrant caravan forcefully push past border patrol in Guatemala. https://t.co/5ALDRclVPI
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3,000 of Hondurans left on Jan 15 to make their way to the United States amid deepening crisis within the country.… https://t.co/5JQLm1kkh5
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The migrants are fleeing political corruption, violence, and extreme poverty in Honduras, which was exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and two devastating Category 4 hurricanes that battered the country within a two-week span in November.

"We have nothing to feed to our children, and thousands of us were left sleeping on the streets," mother-of-four Maria Jesus Paz, who lost her home in the hurricanes, said. "This is why we make this decision, even though we know that the journey could cost us our lives."

The mass migration by Hondurans is happening a week before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. The migrants are expecting that Biden will have a much more welcoming immigration policy compared to President Donald Trump.

Migrant rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras issued a statement on behalf of the people participating in the first caravan of 2021, Fox News reported.

"We recognize the importance of the incoming Government of the United States having shown a strong commitment to migrants and asylum seekers, which presents an opportunity for the governments of Mexico and Central America to develop policies and a migration management that respect and promote the human rights of the population in mobility," the statement read. "We will advocate that the Biden government honors its commitments."

During his presidential campaign run, Biden pledged to end Migrant Protection Protocols on day one of his presidency. The program that was enacted by the Trump administration in January 2019, makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico during the duration of their immigration court cases.

Biden's "groundbreaking" immigration reform plan is expected to provide a pathway to citizenship to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants residing in the United States.

Biden has also promised a moratorium on deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

However, Biden's domestic policy advisor Susan Rice cautioned that changes in immigration wouldn't happen immediately.

"Processing capacity at the border is not like a light that you can just switch on and off," Rice told Spanish wire service EFE in December. "Migrants and asylum seekers absolutely should not believe those in the region peddling the idea that the border will suddenly be fully open to process everyone on Day 1. It will not."

"Our priority is to reopen asylum processing at the border consistent with the capacity to do so safely and to protect public health, especially in the context of COVID-19," Rice said. "This effort will begin immediately but it will take months to develop the capacity that we will need to reopen fully."

The caravan reaching the U.S. border will depend on how much the Guatemalan and Mexican governments crackdown on the illegal immigrants traveling north toward the U.S.

Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan blamed the incoming administration for the caravan during an appearance on "Fox & Friends."

"We're looking at two groups that are well over five thousand. And one of those groups have already gotten through the Guatemala border. And they're on their way to El Rancho, which is about the located centrally in Guatemala," Morgan said on Saturday. "It's coming. It's already started, just as we promised and anticipated it would with this rhetoric from the new administration on the border."

Trump issued a warning about the massive amount of illegal immigrants that would swarm the country if his policies are reversed.

"No matter our party, we should all agree on the need to protect our workers, our families, and our citizens of all backgrounds, no matter who they are," Trump said on Tuesday. "In particular, if our border security measures are reversed, it will trigger a tidal wave of illegal immigration — a wave like you've never seen before. And I can tell you that, already, waves are starting to come up from 2,000 and 1,000 and 500 miles away. We see what's coming."