01/26/2022
The Biden Administration finally released the Border Crossing figures on Monday: they have been very slow to release them. On December 2, I wrote
These are not November’s numbers, which the Biden Administration will no doubt release on the third Friday in December (the fourth Friday this month is Christmas Eve) but October’s:
And in fact, they did manage to release them by December 19, when I said
This is the latest chart of the Southwest Land Border Encounters from the Border Patrol, released on Friday, of course, the third Friday of a month in which the fourth Friday is Christmas Eve:
Once again we have a four-Friday month, and they couldn’t quite make it by the third Friday, January 22, but released them on Monday:
178, 840 illegals — not counting "got-aways," the illegals who are never seen by the Border Patrol — is a lot, and it’s all part of the Biden Administration’s decision not to enforce the law.
However, as Julie Axelrod notes at CIS.org:
Last week, the Biden administration finally found a use for the executive branch’s power to exclude foreign citizens from entering the United States that it can get behind — unvaccinated truckers. Starting on January 22, the Department of Homeland Security began to require all non-U.S. individuals seeking to enter the United States via ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders to be “fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and provide related proof of vaccination”. These restrictions apply to those traveling for essential reasons, like trucking. Unlike the vaccine mandates on employers, federal contractors, and federal employees struck down by courts recently for exceeding executive authority, this action is based on the executive branch’s extremely broad power to exclude aliens from entering the country and thus is not likely vulnerable to challenge in court. But from a policy standpoint, it is hard to imagine how the benefits of excluding temporarily present unvaccinated foreign nationals — who spend most of their time in the United States in a truck — could possibly outweigh the drawbacks of further exacerbating the supply chain crisis.
Moreover, it is impossible to square DHS’s concern over a few thousand truckers entering the country unvaccinated with its determination over the past year, even at times when Covid case rates exploded, to open the southern border to all comers. In the Biden administration’s first year in office, the Border Patrol apprehended over two million illegal crossers at the southern border — with no way to check their health or vaccination status. Satisfying the open-borders lobby is clearly more important to this administration than making sure Americans don’t face empty shelves in their stores.
The Border Is Open — Except to Unvaccinated Truckers https://t.co/ZFnjHPuOoU via @CIS_org
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) January 26, 2022
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