A group of about 850 migrants currently living in a shelter in the northern Mexican city of Reynosa, just south of McAllen, Texas, are reportedly “feeling down.” They are disconsolate because of their dwindling chance of cadging a Biden-bestowed “humanitarian parole” before the new President-elect, Donald Trump, returns.
According to a New York Post article by Fox News’s Michael Dorgan, if the shelter’s migrants are unsuccessful in getting an appointment (which would virtually guarantee admission under Biden), “They say they will be forced to attempt to cross the border illegally, risking deportation or being preyed on by the cartels.”
Actually, they wouldn’t be “forced.” They could always turn around and go home. Before the election, the migrants residing at the Senda de Vida shelter had been holding out hope; now, not so much. The shelter’s manager, Pastor Hector Silva, said: “If Harris had won, people would be jumping for joy and as you can see right now, they look sad, they are feeling down.”
The migrants have no doubt learned not only our election results but also the impending appointment to the position of “border czar” of former ICE director Tom Homan. Homan, as we noted on Monday, is also a former New York policeman and Border Patrol agent. The other day he said this:
If you’re in the country illegally, you shouldn’t feel comfortable, absolutely not. I wouldn’t feel comfortable if I were in another country illegally; you shouldn’t be comfortable either. When you enter this country illegally, you have committed a crime. You’re a criminal, and you’re not off the table.
Those words are unlikely to cheer them up. When you think about it, maybe home wasn’t so bad after all.
For more, see NY Post.