President Obama’s policies on illegal aliens is encouraging thousands of migrants to head for the U.S. border and illegally jump the border.
“I’m sure some information has filtered down to those countries that maybe they have some opportunities with respect to our inability to detain families and kids,” Raul Ortiz, the Border Patrol’s acting chief in the Rio Grande Valley sector, told the New York Times’ Julia Preston. “Family members that are already here are saying, now is potentially a pretty good time to come to the U.S.,” he said.
One Democratic legislator also suggested to the New York Times that the new migration was increasing because of Obama’s decision to close detention centers and to release all new migrants into the United States. “’If people start seeing they can come to the United States this way,’ said Representative Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), a Democrat whose district includes a stretch of the Texas border, ‘the word will get back that you don’t have to wait two years in a refugee camp,’” the newspaper reported.
Obama’s opening of the border and invitation to come to the U.S. and enjoy life on the American taxpayer dime is creating the same migrant magnet that is currently overwhelming Europe.
The migration pattern matches the escalating Muslim migration in Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel announced in August that the country would accept all migrants from Syria. Since then, more than one million unskilled migrants, mostly young men, have flooded into Europe in search of welfare and permission to bring in their wives, children, and extended families. The growing inflow now includes many Afghans, Pakistanis, and Africans, few of whom have the education or skills to reach economic and social parity with ethnic Germans.
Not only is the welcome mat rolled out but penalties for violation of American immigration law are virtually non-existent.
Only a small percentage of the migrants are sent home. “For example, in FY 2014, although 13,204 minors were ordered removed, only 1,863 were actually deported…. To a large degree, this discrepancy is likely due to the fact that most UAC removal orders are issued in absentia, after an individual fails to appear for his or her immigration court hearing. Specifically, 69 percent of all UAC removal orders since 2005 have been issued in absentia, including 81 percent of those issued between October 2013 and August 2015,’Breitbart reported in October.
The economic impact of this unfettered immigration are felt most through higher taxes and lower wages for American workers.
Nearly all the migrants are uneducated and unskilled, and rely heavily on welfare funded by middle-class Americans. They also compete for jobs and drive down wages for blue-collar Americans.
