Related story: "It's business as usual at the border while Biden deals with the Middle East: Daily Mail catches hundreds of migrants squeezing through the wall"--Daily Mail. At just one location near Lukeville, AZ, the Daily Mail reporter saw at least 550 people cross the border--through a section of border wall--in just over a one hour period.
... On Thursday they included people from Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Nepal, India, and Pakistan.
The routes are well-worn by now. From Senegal to Morocco to Spain to Ecuador to Colombia to Mexico City and north by bus, for example.
And the stories are just as well worn. The night's big contingent from India all told a similar story, rehearsed on the 15 or so days traveling.
'It's the political thing,' said 22-year-old Dhruv Patel, as he described how people from politically connected families like his face the constant threat of kidnap.
'Threatening calls,' said another young man in his group.
'Criminality,' said a third.
And:
... Data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed there were 269,735 encounters at the southern border in September, beating last December's record, and bringing the total for 2023 so far to 2.47 million.
The Biden administration has tried to respond. It announced recently that it would grant temporary legal status for nearly 500,000 Venezuelans already in the United States on July 31, while at the same time promising to deport those who arrived illegally after that date and failed to get asylum.
And the deportation flights to Venezuela have begun as part of a diplomatic thaw with the government of Nicolás Maduro.
That might bring temporary respite, said Chris Clem, former chief patrol officer in nearby Yuma sector, but does not change the overall trend.
'It's a couple of hundred people a day, that's a drop in the bucket,' he said.
'Until there's a significant policy shift, until there is a significant focus on reestablishing our border security as a priority, I think we're gonna suffer and morale will suffer.'
We need to push them into Mexico so that Mexico learns to never again facilitate an invasion of the U.S.
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