As we’ve been saying all this month, when the CDC lifts the Title 42 expulsion measure in May as it says it will do, the government plans to deal with the anticipated surge of would-be asylees in one way only: more buses.
That was made plain this week when DHS head Alejandro Mayorkas released his “DHS Plan for Southwest Border Security and Preparedness.” While making some meaningless noises about “securing the border,” this document focuses, as we knew it would, on expediting the transport of newly admitted “noncitizens” to points deep inside the United States, where they can be more or less hidden and will not disturb government optics on the border.
Mayorkas is all-too-specific in describing the plan as one of processing, not prevention. He has no intention of preventing illegal entry. The focus exclusively is to move the new residents into the interior as quickly as possible. As outlined in the plan, here is the basic process of dealing with individuals encountered illegally crossing the border from Mexico:
The illegal migrant is transported to a nearby CBP station. There, for an hour or two, he is interviewed, and officials examine any identification papers he might have brought along. If the migrant is an “Unaccompanied Child,” he cannot legally be detained but is turned over to Health and Human Services for placement either with a relative or a foster family somewhere in the U.S. Adults may be detained but most often will be enrolled in an ICE Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program (which often involves being given a smart phone for “tracking” purposes). They are turned over to some NGO or other to assist with “planning for travel away from the border and the provision of other basic services.”
The plan will thus be a boon to NGOs such as Jewish Family Services and Catholic Charities, which for years have grown fat on government contracts to support the refugee racket. Under the new plan, those organizations will receive massive infusions of taxpayer cash to “provide . . . rapid contracting support for air and ground transportation” of illegals to American communities away from the border. The NGOs will also provide, in Breitbart’s words, “legal assistance to border crossers and illegal aliens so they can fight deportation orders and gain asylum in the U.S.”
Aside from obviously wanting to avoid inconvenient mass clusters of thousands of illegals such as what we saw last summer at the bridge in Del Rio, Mayorkas’s plan is forthright in its intentions: to efficiently admit and spirit away from the border thousands, eventually millions, of illegal migrants from all over the world.
And anyone who opposes that is simply Not Who We Are.
For more, see Breitbart.