Mexico Is Holding Back A Massive Wave Of Illegal Immigrants That Will Break After The Election
Here's what I learned walking among and interviewing a caravan of 1,000 migrants about Mexico's plans after Nov. 5.Here's what I learned walking among and interviewing a caravan of 1,000 migrants about Mexico's plans after Nov. 5.Imminent border rush: Thousands race toward US, hoping to cross before Trump's potential return
Several caravans, thousands-strong, are making their way through Mexico, hoping to cross the United States' border before a potential administration change with the presidential election just weeks away.
On October 5, a caravan of 600 to 800 individuals left Tapachula, Mexico, according to the Border Report. Last week, another group of 1,000 reportedly departed from the city. On Sunday, a caravan with 2,000 individuals left Mexico's southern border.
'They could both close the CBP One appointment and all the services that are helping migrants.'
Luis Garcia Villagran, director of the Tapachula-based Center for Human Dignity, told a local news outlet that he estimates that at least 4,000 people, divided into multiple caravans, are already moving through Mexico and on their way to the U.S.
"As we speak, 40,000 to 45,000 migrants, 30 percent from the Middle East and Africa, are stuck and trying to leave for the United States before the end of the year," Garcia Villagran said in a statement translated by Border Report.
Joel Zambrano, a Venezuelan national traveling with the caravan that set off over the weekend, told the New York Post that a new administration "makes us fearful."
Zambrano stated that he is concerned that after January 20, 2025, Customs and Border Protection's CBP One application will be shut down. Currently, the mobile app allows foreign nationals to schedule an appointment at a port of entry to make an asylum claim. Approximately 1.3 million people over the past two years have been allowed into the U.S. through the Biden-Harris administration's app and its other so-called "lawful pathways."
"They say this could change because they could both close the CBP One appointment and all the services that are helping migrants," Zambrano told the Post.
Trump has vowed that his top priority, should he secure the upcoming presidential election, is to "seal the border and stop the migrant invasion," according to his campaign's website. He also pledged to "carry out the largest deportation operation in American history."
With immigration a top-of-mind concern for most voters, Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has also attempted to appear tough on the border crisis that the Biden-Harris administration manufactured.
During her first visit to the border, she stated, "I will do more to secure our border, to reduce illegal border crossings."
"I will take further action to keep the border closed between ports of entry," she added.
While the details of her border strategy are unclear, the Biden-Harris administration has advocated for the implementation of more so-called "lawful pathways" that have expedited entries, thereby deterring foreign nationals from illegally crossing the border between ports of entry. While these additional pathways have reportedly reduced southern border encounters, they have not reduced the number of foreign nationals entering the country with little to no vetting.
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Migrant caravan of 2,000 heads toward El Paso
A massive migrant caravan of at least 2,000 individuals led by Mexican activists is heading toward El Paso, Texas, and will arrive at the southern border within days, the New York Post reported.
The first group from the “Way of the Cross” caravan recently reached Chihuahua City, Mexico, according to KTRH. The news outlet noted that the migrants are being assisted by churches in Mexico.
A video posted on social media showed the wave of migrants chanting, “A la frontera,” which means, “To the border.” The group declared, “We are not criminals, we are international workers.”
\ud83d\udea8BREAKING NEWS: New criminal alien caravan organized by Catholic Church \u201cViacrucis Migrante\u201d makes its way to the United States. Each one of them will break into our country and Joe Biden will give them free work permits, free housing, education, healthcare and legal services.— (@)
The caravan was reportedly formed to ensure the security of migrants seeking to travel to the border and enter the United States. The activists argued that, without the safety of the caravan, the migrants are being exploited by criminal organizations.
“Right now, there is a clear persecution of pro-migrant activists,” activist Luis Villagran stated in a video captured by Real America’s Voice and posted on social media. “They haven’t been able to control this massive migrant flow.”
“The only one that benefits out of human misery, it is the organized crime,” he continued, according to RAV’s translation.
The activist claimed that the migrants “do not have another options.”
“Their only option is to walk in a caravan or go in the back of a tractor trailer to possibly die. Where we have seen, in the past year 2023, more than 400 migrants have disappeared in their journeys to try to get to the United States of America,” the activist added.
\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: @Oscarelblue captures footage of a CARAVAN OF 3000 Migrants leaving the south of Mexico with direction to the USA!— (@)
It is unclear whether they all plan to enter the U.S. at the El Paso border or if they will separate into smaller groups and cross at several ports of entry.
Border Report stated that churches near the southern border are preparing for the surge of new arrivals.
Rev. Francisco Bueno Guillen, director of Casa del Migrante shelter in Juarez, said, “We are in contact with people and personnel in migrant shelters in south Mexico. They say many people have come into the country recently and are being joined by others already there. And yes, they are coming to Juarez.”
Guillen has been in communication with other church officials to coordinate shelter space for those in the caravan.
“We are a single church. We are not isolated, we work together. They (El Paso) also have places to shelter migrants, they assist us,” he stated.
El Paso Catholic Diocese Bishop Mark J. Seitz told Border Report, “We continue to marshal all available resources and be aware of the trends.”
“El Paso has shown itself to be very able to gear up when the surge comes and provide a safe and orderly way for those who have been permitted to come in to find a secure situation and continue on their path.,” Seitz added.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz from Texas responded to the news about the en-route migrant caravan.
“Our border has been overrun for over three years. This is just the latest example of what Joe Biden has normalized,” he wrote in a post on X.
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Blinken to meet with Mexican president while caravan of over 8,000 migrants marches on US border
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed south to discuss illegal immigration with the Mexican regime while a migrant caravan estimated to be about at least 8,000 people deep and growing — the largest of its kind since June 2022 — marches north on the U.S. border.
The prospective invaders began their advance northward Sunday, walking from Tapachula, a city near Mexico's southern border with Guatemala, to Alvaro Obregón, reported the New York Post.If successful, this group will add to the strain already experienced at the border, which sees roughly 10,000 illegal aliens storm over daily.
Despite claims that the caravan comprises asylum seekers, leaders of the group made clear with a banner that read, "Exodus from poverty," that they were largely economic migrants.
While most of the economic migrants appear to be from Cuba, Venezuela, El Salvador, Haiti, and Honduras, the BBC indicated some also hail from Bangladesh, India, and other oriental locales.
Anti-borders activist Luis García Villagrán, accompanying the prospective invaders, indicated that the caravan assembled and began marching toward the American border because Tapachula is overwhelmed.
The local paper Diario del Sur indicated that an estimated 100,000 illegal aliens are parked in Tapachula, many of whom are keen on going to the United States.
"The problem is that the southern border [with Guatemala] is open and 800 to 1,000 people are crossing it daily. If we don't get out of Tapachula, the town will collapse," said Villagrán. "We tell the Mexican state that it has left us no other option but to take the coastal highway and walk as far as we can get."
While the caravan is presently at least 8,000 strong, Villagrán indicated it could grow to at least 15,000 people.
"We won't stop — we'll keep walking," he threatened.
— (@)
Biden and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are set to discuss the border crisis over the phone Wednesday.
When they met earlier this year in Mexico City for the North American Leaders' Summit, Obrador remarked, "President Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built not even one meter of wall, and ... we thank you for that, sir."
The Mexican leader also noted that "some may not like" Biden's refusal to secure the border, particularly "the conservatives."
Following Wednesday's presidential chat over the phone, Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and White House homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall will meet with Obrador to further discuss the surge in illegal immigration.
According the State Department, Blinken will "reaffirm the United States’ commitment to the Los Angeles Declaration for Migration and Protection, and underscore the urgent need for lawful pathways and additional enforcement actions by partners throughout the region."
CNN reported that ahead of the meeting, Homeland Security officials identified a number of ways the Mexican regime — which has been highly critical of Texas' efforts to combat illegal immigration — could help to prevent continuing to make its migrant problem America's problem. Mexico could, for instance, move illegal aliens south; control its railways, which are used to move migrants north; and provide illegal aliens with incentives not to trek to the border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows that over 6.85 million illegal aliens stole into the U.S. from Mexico between the time President Joe Biden took office and last month. Many more are suspected to have entered in undetected.
Border officials told Fox News' Bill Melugin there have been over 730,000 migrant encounters at the southern border since Oct. 1 and that December was set to break all-time records for border crossings.
The vast majority (61.17%) of the illegal aliens encountered at the border have been single adults, many of whom appear to be military-age males.
"We are facing a serious challenge along the southwest border and C.B.P. and our federal partners need more resources from Congress — as outlined in the supplemental budget request — to enhance border security and America's national security," Troy Miller, acting leader of CBP, said in a statement Friday.
Extra to new security threats and a cheapening of American sovereignty, the record influx of illegal aliens will also cost the American taxpayer dearly.
Blaze News recently detailed the findings of a new study that found, on the basis of U.S. Census Bureau data from the 2022 Survey of Income and Program Participation, that 59% of illegal alien households rely on taxpayer-funded welfare.
The House Committee on Homeland Security noted in its Nov. 13 interim report on the "Historic Dollar Costs of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' Open-Border Policies" that "for every one million parolees released into the United States on Mayorkas' watch, the cost in federal welfare benefits that will be incurred could total $3 billion annually, with those costs starting to kick in January 2026."
The congressional report highlighted a CIS estimate that put the yearly cost of housing known gotaways and illegal aliens who have been released into the U.S. under Biden's watch at $451 billion.
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Biden admits the border will be 'chaotic for a while' with Title 42 just hours away from expiring
President Joe Biden admitted Tuesday that the southern border will be "chaotic for a while," starting when Title 42 expires on May 11.
Over 5 million illegal aliens have stolen across the border in the years Biden has been in office. Various American communities along the border are presently in crisis. Illegal immigration is already costing taxpayers $151 billion per year. Thousands of criminal noncitizens are committing grievous crimes in the homeland every year. It is, therefore, unclear by what measure the president qualifies chaos.
Biden suggested that his administration, which has incentivized illegal immigration, is presently working to make the break with Title 42 orderly, "but it remains to be seen," reported the Associated Press.
The president's suggestion this week that chaos is imminent conflicts with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' claim last week that the Biden administration has "been preparing for quite some time and we are ready."
Title 42, first implemented under Republican then-President Donald Trump in March 2020, has been used to great effect in recent years, ejecting roughly 2.8 million illegal immigrants to date.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the Biden administration has a "robust process to deal with what is going to occur after Title 42 lifts," but shifted blame for the border crisis to the Republican-held Congress, claiming lawmakers "refuses to do their job as it relates to the border."
The White House announced Monday that President Biden would veto the latest effort by Republicans in Congress to bolster American sovereignty and address the border crisis, reported Fox News Digital.
"While we welcome Congress’ engagement on meaningful steps to address immigration and the challenges at the border, this bill would make things worse, not better," said the White House. "Because this bill does very little to actually increase border security while doing a great deal to trample on the Nation’s core values and international obligations, it should be rejected."
The bill in question, sponsored by Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) and Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), would prompt the resumption of border wall construction, add more Border Patrol agents, end catch-and-release policies, and better enable federal agencies to manage illegal immigration at the southern border.
Rather than pursuing this and other meaningful options, Biden has dispatched 1,500 active-duty troops to the border — troops who are prohibited from curbing the influx of migrants.
Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder noted that the troops sent to reinforce border security will be primarily used as observers and are "not there in any way to be interacting with migrants."
The 2,500 National Guard members, while highly capable, appear to have been similarly preventing from repelling the coming mass migration, tasked instead with monitoring, detection, and air transportation, according to the Associated Press.
While the Biden administration opposes solutions from Congress and handicaps America's armed response, masses of foreign nationals march towards the border.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) told Fox News that the Guatemalan president, Alejandro Giammattei, has warned of over 80,000 migrants, primarily from Venezuela, heading toward the southern border.
The Associated Press reported that thousands of Panamanians, Colombians, Haitians, Chinese, and Ecuadorians are similarly contributing to the northbound flow of migrants keen on exploiting Title 42's expiration.
El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser estimated that at least 10,000 migrants are waiting in Juárez for Title 42 to fall before rushing the border, reported PBS.
July Rodriguez, the director of Support for Venezuelan Migrants, told the Miami Herald, "There are media reports in Mexico that there might be around 600,000 migrants heading to the border."
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) picked up on a similar report, suggesting in late April that Mexican cartels were preparing to flood the border with between 700,000 and 1 million illegal aliens in an effort to overwhelm Border Patrol, reported American Military News.
\u201cBREAKING NEWS: Cartels Plan to Overwhelm the Southern Border with 700,000 to a Million Illegal Immigrants Once Title42 Ends \n\n@RepAndyBiggsAZ \nhttps://t.co/NzF2hIG5Fm\u201d— Grace Chong \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Grace Chong \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1682644504
"This is a big crisis. No one knows what is going to happen the day after the end of Title 42," said Rodriguez. "This is getting out of hand."
Rodriguez noted, "There are a lot of rumors that people are being able to get into the United States and they believe that people are lying when they say that the border is closed."
Despite Biden's admission that the border will soon be roiled, extra to the precedent set under his watch, a senior official in his administration told reporters Tuesday, "We do expect to see an increase [in illegal aliens arriving at the border]. ... But we do believe over time that these programs that expand legal pathways, that increase consequences for irregular migration, will have a sustainable and long-standing impact on our flows."
The administration has planned but has yet to open processing centers in Guatemala and Colombia to pre-screen migrants for eligibility and has also announced that its CBP One program will be expanded to handle more appointments with illegal aliens.
Apparently, thousands of migrants missed the memo and are already massing at the border.
Drone footage shows just some of the thousands of illegal aliens who have already poured in this week, in this case in Brownsville, Texas:
\u201cNEW: Our Fox drone over another enormous group of migrants who crossed illegally into Brownsville yesterday evening. As of yesterday, CBP sources tell us Border Patrol\u2019s Rio Grande Valley sector was already running at 140% capacity in its facilities, and T42 hasn\u2019t dropped yet.\u201d— Bill Melugin (@Bill Melugin) 1683724037
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Mexico breaks up massive migrant caravan but gives migrants free pass to travel to US
A migrant caravan headed for the U.S. southern border that at one time numbered nearly 10,000 people has dissolved, Mexican authorities said Saturday. However, caravan organizers say the migrants will still attempt to travel across Mexico to the United States seeking asylum.
Mexican immigration authorities said Saturday the migrants were given temporary visas, called migratory multiple forms, which will permit them to freely remain in Mexico. An agreement was reached after the Mexican National Institute of Migration spoke with caravan organizers from Central America, Venezuela, Haiti, and other countries, CNN reported.
"With the agreements reached thanks to our talks, migrants are prevented from being victims of criminals who are dedicated to human trafficking or traffickers who expose the migrants to unsafe conditions," the agency said.
The caravan departed from Tapachula, Mexico, last week and traveled towards Mexico City. According to organizer Luis Villagran, who spoke to Fox News, approximately 80% of the migrants in the caravan, about 9,000 people, were granted temporary legal status by Mexican authorities and permitted to continue the journey north.
Villagran said that although the caravan has broken up, the migrants will proceed to the United States and attempt to enter the country at the border.
It is illegal for migrants to travel past the Mexican southern state of Chiapas without documentation under Mexican law. Though Mexican authorities have broken up migrant caravans before, including one in October last year, many migrants have continued their journey to the U.S.
U.S. immigration authorities have been overwhelmed by tens of thousands of migrants, including children and families, who have appeared at the border since President Joe Biden took office in 2021. Illegal immigration has surged as much as 10% under Biden's watch, according to one estimate from the Center for Immigration Studies.
The Biden administration reported an enormous 234,088 migrant encounters at the southern border in April, a 22-year high and the fourth time the administration has reported monthly encounters exceeding 200,000.
There have been more than 20,000 illegal border crossings in the Rio Grande Valley sector in the past two weeks alone, according to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin.
\u201cLive from Hidalgo, TX in the RGV this morning, where we discuss:\n- Thousands of Haitian migrants gathering in Reynosa, MX. \n- Busloads of migrants from recent caravan arriving in Acuna across from Del Rio, TX. \n- 20,000+ illegal crossings in RGV sector in last 2 weeks. @FoxNews\u201d— Bill Melugin (@Bill Melugin) 1655131064
Migrants that do not present themselves at a legal point of entry seeking asylum are detained by border agents and deported under the administration's Title 42 public health order. This pandemic-era policy is responsible for the majority of deportations since March 2020, sparking protests from immigration activists and demands for the Biden administration to rescind the order.
President Biden's attempt to end Title 42 was blocked in court.
Nearly 10,000 migrants are headed towards U.S. in largest caravan ever
A migrant caravan numbered at nearly 10,000 people, possibly the largest ever, departed from the Mexico-Guatemala border Monday and is headed to the United States.
The caravan left Tapachula on Monday and currently has about 9,500 migrants mostly from Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua. It is predicted to add several thousand more people before it reaches the southern border by a coastal route, according to Fox News.
One of the caravan members, a Haitian migrant, told Fox News they expect President Joe Biden to keep his campaign promises and permit them to seek asylum in the U.S.
"He promised the Haitian community he will help them," the migrant said. "He will recall Title 42. He will help us have real asylum."
Luis Villagran, the caranvan's organizer, gave more details to Fox News on the size and progress of the caravan.
"We consider we are around 9,500, it measures 51/2 km from the start to the end, people keep on joining, in the first police check there were approx 100-150 national guard, INM, state police and let us through freely," Villagran said.
A federal judge in May prevented the Biden administration from rescinding the public health order known as Title 42, a pandemic policy that requires migrants seeking asylum to the U.S. to wait outside the country for processing. Title 42 also grants immigration enforcement extra authority to deport migrants that enter the country illegally.
Immigration activists and left-wing groups have accused the Trump-era Title 42 order of being xenophobic and anti-immigrant. They have put pressure on the Biden administration to lift the order, but 24 Republican-led states filed a lawsuit to prevent the president from doing so. These states say lifting Title 42 would lead to a massive surge in illegal immigration, which would overwhelm state resources and worsen the humanitarian crisis at the border.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has repeatedly stated his department will continue to enforce Title 42 and has warned migrants not to make the dangerous journey to the United States.
"The restrictions at our southwest border have not changed. Single adults and families encountered will continue to be expelled, where appropriate, under Title 42. And those who are unable to establish a legal basis to remain will be removed," Mayorkas said last month.
Though Mayorkas insists immigration laws are still being enforced, President Joe Biden has sought to undo many of his predecessor Donald Trump's strict immigration policies. Upon assuming office, Biden canceled construction of a wall on the southern border, prioritized immigration enforcement against known criminals and terrorists instead of all illegal immigrants, reinstated catch-and-release policies, and worked to end Title 42.
Republicans have accused Biden's policies of encouraging illegal immigration, while the administration insists crime, corruption, and natural disasters in south and central America are causing people to come to the U.S. in increased numbers seeking a better life.
Migrant caravan that bulldozed Mexican National Guard was organized by QR code, sends message to Biden
A 3,000-person migrant caravan that made headlines over the weekend for blasting through a roadblock set up by the Mexican National Guard was organized via QR code, according to Fox News.
The caravan, which is made up of people from Central America, South America, and Haiti, is being tracked by Fox News National Correspondent Griff Jenkins, who has followed the migrants along their trek northward since they left the southern Mexican city of Tapachula three days ago.
"Tell Biden we are coming," an El Salvadorian migrant named William told Fox News.
DAY 3 The Migrant Caravan has left Huehuetán heading North w one migrant named William from El Salvador saying “Tel… https://t.co/mBPQCjfAel
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) 1635165404.0
Jenkins reports that this caravan is the largest and most organized caravan that has traveled north from southern Mexico this year. Thousands of people signed up to travel to the United States via QR code starting Oct. 15.
Video footage captured by Fox News shows men and women of all ages, including some small children being pushed in strollers, walking north about 20 miles from Tapachula. One person can be seen carrying a large wooden cross at the front of the caravan and others are carrying American flags and signs with President Joe Biden's name.
DAY 3… 20 miles North of Tapachula. This is the largest most organized Caravan we have seen come out S Mexico this… https://t.co/xbLEFwzDNb
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) 1635173965.0
This is the QR code that migrants in the Caravan used to sign up… @FoxNews #BorderCrisis https://t.co/sJpwIa0vVK
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) 1635174127.0
"President Biden, we need your help," another migrant said.
These migrants have another 2,500 miles to walk before they reach the Texas border. Fox News reports that the caravan will need to travel by foot because the Mexican government has banned truckers from letting migrants hitch a ride northward.
The caravan is making its journey to the U.S. just as the Biden administration is following a court order to reinstate former President Donald Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy, which will require asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while they are being processed for entry into the U.S.
Border Patrol officials told Fox News last week that as many as 60,000 migrants are gathering on the Mexican side of the border to attempt to cross into the U.S. before the Biden administration reimplements the Trump-era policy.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is searching for a legal way to repeal the "Remain in Mexico" policy even as it is following a court order to put the policy back into effect.
On Friday, Customs and Border Protection reported there have been more than 1.7 million encounters with illegal immigrants in FY 2021, a record high number. Republican critics have blamed Biden's attempts to repeal Trump's strict immigration policies for incentivizing illegal immigration and contributing to a humanitarian crisis on the southern border.
The Biden administration said root causes like poverty, corruption, and violence in South and Central America are pushing migrants north to seek refuge and jobs in America.
In a statement Sunday, Trump said the U.S. is being "poisoned" by the overwhelming flood of illegal immigration and the Biden administration's refusal to secure the border.
"Our Country is being poisoned with the millions of people that are illegally flowing through our Borders, in most cases not even questioned or stopped. Many are criminals from the emptied prisons of other countries, most of these are very dangerous people," Trump said in a statement emailed to reporters.
"Our country is dying from within and nobody is doing anything to stop it. The first thing that should be done, and it can be done quickly, is FINISH THE WALL. A deal must be made with Mexico, where Mexico serves as a 2,000-mile barrier, not a launching pad for the illegals that are coming in," the 45th president said.
VIDEO: Migrant caravan bulldoze Mexican National Guard; organizer says Biden admin's policies pulling illegal immigrants to US 'like cattle'
Several thousand migrants from Haiti, South America, and Central America are making their way north to the southern border of the United States. Mexican law enforcement attempted to utilize a roadblock to stop the massive migrant caravan in southern Mexico, but the migrants easily steamrolled their way past the large group of officers.
Approximately 3,000 migrants marched in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula – about 10 miles from the Guatemala border. There are reports that members of the caravan were carrying signs with President Joe Biden's name on them, including one that read: "Joe Biden Is For All."
#BREAKING Thousands of migrants marching from Tapachula and are using a rope to stay together so “no one falls behi… https://t.co/bts36zdQAJ
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) 1634995646.0
BREAKING: A large Migrant Caravan has departed Tapachula, Mexico carrying signs w @POTUS name on it @FoxNews… https://t.co/cxW51HPUbA
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) 1634993170.0
NOW - Large migrant caravan has left Tapachula, Mexico for the US.https://t.co/EprRkn62iv
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) 1635001054.0
The Mexican National Guard established a roadblock – fortified by some 400 law enforcement officers. Video shows the migrant caravan overwhelming the Mexican force and bulldozing the officers who were equipped with shields and anti-riot gear.
BREAKING: Migrant Caravan in Mexico encounters Mexico’s @INAMI_mx forces… #BorderCrisis https://t.co/8RnFir1j7x
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) 1635003178.0
En localidad de #VivaMéxico cerca de #Tapachula #Chiapas rompe el cerco de elementos de @INAMI_mx y @GN_MEXICO_ la… https://t.co/iFKP2kqQ99
— Gabriela Coutiño (@GabyCoutino) 1635007381.0
Caravan organizer Irineo Mujica said the Biden administration's immigration policies are pulling migrants to the U.S. "like cattle."
Mujica said the migrants should be given an opportunity to work in Mexico "because a lot of them don't want to be brought to the U.S. but the Biden administration, with this administration, it's like pulling them like cattle, first they come to this jail and then they go to the northern border."
BREAKING: The Leader of the Migrant Caravan Irineo Mujica marching and calling out @POTUS @VP @SecMayorkas… https://t.co/rkYFZMkZJQ
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) 1635000573.0
Mujica then said President Biden "doesn't seem to have a clue what to do with immigration."
"They're just in denial of their own fault. They haven't been able to handle immigration," Mujica said of the Biden administration. "If I tell you the truth, I believe at least with Donald Trump we knew what we had. With Biden, we don't know. He doesn't seem to have a clue what to do with immigration because he says one thing and does another."
Mujica proclaimed that Biden hasn't kept his promises to take care of illegal immigrants.
Immigration activist, Irineo Mujica says the current administration is in denial when it comes to the crisis at the… https://t.co/MuWs7rbws3
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) 1634963063.0
The migrant caravan could be racing to the U.S. southern border before the Biden administration is forced to restart Trump's "remain in Mexico" policy – which is expected to resume next month. The "remain in Mexico" policy – also known as the Migrant Protection Protocols – will be reinstated because a federal judge blocked the Biden administration from terminating the immigration policy. The Biden administration appealed its case to the U.S. Supreme Court, but they ruled that the current administration must make a "good faith effort" to restart the program.
Under the Migrant Protection Protocols, migrant asylum seekers must wait in Mexico for their U.S. court hearings.
Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection made a record number of illegal immigrant arrests along the U.S.-Mexico border. A report found that more than 1.7 million border arrests were made in the 2021 fiscal year, beating the previous record set in 1986.
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