On March 28, Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy for the Center for Immigration Studies, told a Breitbart News Sunday radio audience, “We are hollowing out these towns and cities and villages in Central America and encouraging people to leave for a life that might not be that much better when they get here. . . This is not good for these countries and really is a moral hazard. . . .”
Vaughan charged that the Biden administration had created the crisis by systematically undoing the measures taken by President Trump to defend the border from illegal immigration. Those measures included “Remain in Mexico,” “first safe third” agreements with Central America, quick asylum processing, etc.
Asked about the possible motivation for the new government’s reversals, Vaughan suggested it is partly the conviction on the part of the Biden team that life for most people in Central America had grown too onerous and that the United States was morally bound to alleviate the problem by freely admitting would-be asylees and refugees. In addition, she said, there is within the Democrat leadership the desire for more and more eventual voters. Couple the two and you have the Biden immigration policy.
“I can’t imagine a more immoral or more inhumane policy where we entice people to turn their life savings over to a criminal smuggling organization and take this dangerous journey with children,” she declared.
And she adds that, on the American side, the influx of illegal migrants (more than 23,000 have been caught and released since February) is seriously impacting–and in the time of a pandemic threatening the health of–the American cities and towns being forced to try to accommodate the migrants.
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