You probably know that there is a very large caravan of migrants–numbering perhaps 5,000–currently moving up through Mexico, headed to the U.S. border. You may also know that most have turned down an offer by the Mexican government of humanitarian visas: their goal is the United States, pure and simple.
Seeing thousands of migrants weaving their way inexorably toward a lightly defended border is a forbidding sight, certainly.
Yet, Randy Clark, a staff writer for Breitbart News and a 32-year veteran of the Border Patrol, reminds us that that many illegals are delivered into the United States by cartels every day. Writes Clark:
The Border Patrol apprehended more than 90,000 migrants attempting to illegally cross the border in the first 18 days of October to mark the beginning of Fiscal Year 2022. Media appear to have a more difficult time covering 5,000 migrants entering each day in fractured groups across four states. Regardless, the number of migrants apprehended daily is on par with the current caravan’s headcount. [emphasis added]
And what happens to those migrants after apprehension? Many are simply released into the United States.
Approximately one third of the migrant apprehensions made daily by the Border Patrol are being released into the United States due to relaxed and cancelled immigration policies under the current administration. The migrants, many untested for COVID-19, are free to travel to any destination once released. The relatively few migrants who are tested for COVID-19, mostly at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, are released regardless of the outcome.
Clark concludes that while the caravan is newsworthy, “it is still a distraction compared to the real crisis.”
The real crisis is relentless and ongoing, caravan or no.
For more, see Breitbart News.