Throughout Joe Biden’s tenure as president, his administration has pursued a policy of willful neglect of our immigration laws, resulting in the admission of perhaps two million or more illegal aliens into the United States. Has this policy issued from nothing more than negligence, prompted by a general open-borders mindset? Or, as is now being suggested, has the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies within the Biden government purposely engaged in illegal behavior in concert with Mexican smuggling cartels, corrupt Mexican officials, and others? Has this behavior risen to the level of prosecutable crime?
A new posting by CIS.org suggests it might. In an article dated yesterday, George Fishman, a senior legal fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote:
The acts at the heart of these shocking allegations (if proven) would seemingly constitute criminal violations of the federal anti-alien-smuggling law, violations that carry with them potential punishment from a fine or one year’s imprisonment to life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
Fishman quotes Todd Bensman, a CIS reporter, to the effect that during a period of several days earlier this year in Matamoros, Mexico, perhaps 3,000 immigrants every day swam across the Rio Grande to Brownsville, Texas, without opposition from either side. Bensman noted that, at intervals, he witnessed a Mexican immigration officer signal groups of 100-150 to suddenly rush down the riverbank and swim across to Texas. Asked by Bensman about the recurrent pattern, the Mexican officers explained that the repeated crossings had been coordinated with CBP officials on the other side, who would alert the Mexicans when they had finished processing the most recent batch and were ready for another.
By referencing the legal proceedings relating to the Iran/Contra affair, Fishman goes on to explain why this sort of behavior is contrary to the anti-alien-smuggling provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and could, given a motivated Department of Justice–impossible under the current regime–bring those responsible to trial. We can only hope.
For more, see CIS.org.