Joe Biden and those leaders of Western Hemispheric countries who bothered to attend his Summit of the Americas are today announcing something Joe calls “The Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection.” Biden bragged last night that his new idea was a “ground-breaking, integrated new approach to managing migration and sharing responsibility across the hemisphere.”
According to a Fact Sheet released today by the White House, the plan rests on the following three “pillars”:
- Pillar I: Stability and Assistance for Communities
- Pillar II: Legal Pathways and Protection
- Pillar III: Humane Border Management
In describing Pillar I, the Fact Sheet singles out some things that Belize, Ecuador, Colombia, and Costa Rica have said they’ll do, such as making some commitments and promising this and that. These things are, of course, “contingent on obtaining necessary financial resources.” That’s where the U.S. comes in, to the tune of $339 million.
Pillar II has Canada agreeing to increase its resettlement of refugees and by 2028 to take in a whopping 4,000. In addition, Canada will bring in 50,000 agricultural workers from Mexico, Guatemala, and the Caribbean this year and will throw in $26.9 million to address “root causes.” Guatemala, for its part, will pass a law. And Mexico will allow in 15,000-20,000 Guatemalans to work temporarily. The United States, meanwhile, will provide 11,500 H-2B visas for Central Americans and Haitians, resettle 20,000 “refugees” (hoping that other countries will do the same), increase the number of Haitians welcomed including family members of those already here, and kick in $65 million for H-2A agricultural workers. (Lots of goodies for Haitians in Biden’s plan. Election coming up, you know.)
And finally, Pillar III requires the U.S. to offer a kinder and gentler system of processing illegal migrants, which means spiriting them away from the border and into the U.S. heartland as quickly as possible. (Amusingly, while this administration has thus far functioned as nothing less than a full and valued partner of the smuggling cartels, this Pillar promises a “multilateral ‘Sting Operation’ to disrupt” those same cartels.)
Note to Joe: Usually we don’t pre-announce sting operations, but now that you have, we’re sure the muchachos will be quaking in their huaraches.
In summary, White House officials are describing the plan as creating new “pipelines.” These pipelines are not the old-fashioned kind that bring in nasty old oil that no self-respecting woke American cares about anymore. (Walking is good for you!) These are migration pipelines, which bring in what Joe thinks we really need, namely (in the words of Breitbart’s Neil Munro), “new workers [to] help Wall Street by pushing Americans’ wages down, driving up their rents, and spiking consumer demand for used cars, gasoline, baby food, and other items.” Yeah, that’s what we need all right, Joe.
For more, see Breitbart. You can find the WH Fact Sheet here.