The answer to preventing the United States-Mexico border from continuing as “the deadliest land crossing in the world” is to firmly close the border to illegal immigrants
UN Says That Mexico-U.S. Border is the World’s Deadliest Land Crossing
By Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist ——Bio and Archives--July 12, 2022
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), which is part of the United Nations, concluded in a report it issued on July 1st that the United States-Mexico border crossing is "the deadliest land crossing in the world.” At least 728 lives were lost in 2021. IOM said that this total was 53 per cent higher than in 2020, the last full year of the Trump administration, and was the highest since at least 2014 during the Obama-Biden administration. According to Edwin Viales, author of the new IOM report on migrants in the Americas in 2021, “this number remains an undercount due to the diverse challenges for data collection.”
People smugglers continue to prey on migrants and other vulnerable people
The situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is getting even worse this year as the discovery of fifty-three bodies in an abandoned tractor trailer in San Antonio, Texas on June 27th attests. This tragedy has pushed the total number of migrants who died during the first six months of 2022 trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States to 290.
The IOM globalists blamed the increased number of deaths on “the lack of options for safe and regular mobility, which increases the likelihood of migrants opting for irregular migration pathways that put their lives at risk.”
Michele Klein Solomon, IOM Regional Director for Central, North America and the Caribbean, said about the discovery of the fifty-three bodies: “This is not the first nor will it be the last such tragedy as people smugglers continue to prey on migrants and other vulnerable people who are only seeking a better life for themselves and their families.”
Matthew Reynolds, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) representative to the United States and the Caribbean, spoke from the same script: “Without sufficient pathways to safety, vulnerable and desperate people will continue to be preyed upon by smugglers or forced to resort to desperate measures to cross borders. What is needed are safer alternatives to these dangerous irregular movements, ensuring expedient access to asylum procedures for those seeking international protection.”
There are no “safer alternatives” that would enable migrants to elude the Mexican cartels
The UN’s IOM and the UNHCR are being disingenuous to say the least.
There are no “safer alternatives” that would enable migrants to elude the Mexican cartels, who are raking in billions of dollars from their criminal human smuggling operations. The cartels are not going to simply stand aside and allow their lucrative revenues obtained from preying on desperate migrants to fizzle out. No matter what “pathways” the migrants take, the well-organized cartels will make their presence known. The migrants will not be able to hide from them for very long, nor evade the risks of abduction, extortion, rape, beatings, and murder.
The sharp rise in lives lost at “the deadliest land crossing in the world” since President Joe Biden took office is the direct result of President Biden’s own open border immigration policies. These policies have lured record numbers of migrants to make the long trek from their countries of origin to the United States, creating a humanitarian catastrophe.
The Biden administration has released more than a million immigrants who were apprehended after managing to enter the United States illegally and has allowed them to stay in the country. This is not counting the so-called “got-aways” who managed to escape apprehension as well as unaccompanied minors. Thus, it should be no surprise that many more illegal immigrants have been willing to risk their lives on the bet that they too will be welcomed if they reach the promised land.
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The Biden administration has released a record number of illegal immigrants
Most illegal immigrants seeking asylum in the United States have had their claims dismissed in the past after the claims were found to be meritless. But the Biden administration has opened wide a huge loophole by expanding its catch-and-release policy. Asylum claims are too often being used as a pretext for getting a free entry and get out-of-detention card.
The Biden administration has released a record number of illegal immigrants to await their immigration hearings. Many of these illegal immigrants, if past is prologue, will never attend their hearings. Instead, they are settling in communities across the United States with little risk of detection, not to mention deportation.
Traditionally, asylum has been granted to people who can demonstrate that they are unable or unwilling to return to their country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. But some globalists have created another category of refugees - so-called “climate refugees” - with no legal basis in the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees that was designed to protect the rights of legitimate refugees.
The UN Refugee Agency does not officially endorse the phrase “climate refugees” and prefers to use the phrase “persons displaced in the context of disasters and climate change.” Whatever semantics it uses, the agency nevertheless believes that under the UN refugee convention and other sources of international law such displaced persons “may have valid claims for refugee status.”
The Biden administration has absurdly attributed the swelling tide of illegal immigrants to climate change
The Biden administration has absurdly attributed much of the swelling tide of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to climate change. The Biden administration may well use the UN Refugee Agency’s expansive interpretation of refugee status to justify granting asylum to immigrants who claim that they left their home countries to escape the ravages of climate change.
UN officials also say that migrants should be given the opportunity to seek a better life in the countries they have chosen as their ultimate destinations. However, there is a right way and a wrong way for migrants to pursue such opportunities. UN officials too often do not distinguish between migrants following the correct legal course and those who want to cut in line illegally.
The answer to preventing the United States-Mexico border from continuing as “the deadliest land crossing in the world” is to firmly close the border to illegal immigrants rather than to extend them a hearty welcome through misguided open border policies.
