The flood of migrants that DHS Secretary Mayorkas denies is a flood is becoming a tsunami, a tidal wave of biblical proportions threatening to first overwhelm what border security we have left and then engulf the American cities, towns, and rural areas in its path.
The Panamanian foreign minister, Erika Mouynes, speaking to Axios, said yesterday, that as many as 60,000 migrants—mostly Haitian—are getting ready to make their way to the U.S.
As many as 25,000 Haitians have already made that trek, and given that most have been allowed to enter our country, those left behind are being encouraged to come ahead. Mouynes expressed frustration with the Biden administration’s seeming unwillingness to deal with the crisis.
And sixty thousand is likely on the low side. The foreign minister adds that another 30,000 migrants are currently being held back only temporarily in Colombia.
There’s more. Yesterday, Marco Rubio (R-FL) tweeted that “the worst is yet to come,” warning that the number of migrants now headed to the U.S. may be as many as 120,000.
How much worse can it get? The potential numbers within the next few years are staggering. A Gallop poll earlier this year found that no fewer than 42 million Latin Americans wanted to come to the United States. And earlier this month, the World Bank estimated that up to 216 million persons in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe will be migrating in the period 2030-2050. And a 2018 Gallop survey found that 750 million would migrate from their home countries if they could.
In these projections, the United States is always the number one desired destination for the would-be migrant.
So, with a president famous for saying “This country can tolerate a heck of a lot more people,” what’s to stop them?