Mexico

The Biden Border Rush continues, an ongoing invasion aided, abetted and encouraged by our own government.

Now Mexico has suspended deportations, so we can expect even more illegal migrants to make it to our southern border.

The country of Mexico serves as a sort of massive highway through which illegal invaders from around the world can arrive to Joe Biden’s Big Rock Candy Mountain.

Could it get worse? Oh certainly. It could always get worse.

Mexico’s immigration bureaucracy, the Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) (“National Institute of Migration” for all you gringo readers), has announced they are just not going to deport anybody for a while. Deportations, or “assisted returns” as they call them, are suspended.

Why? It’s the end of the year and their government funding has dried up.

What? You mean Mexico deports people? Then how are so many getting through?

Basically, Mexican immigration policy is an incoherent mishmash.

Some illegals are detained and deported while many others are allowed to pass through Mexico to reach the U.S. border.

A December 1 memo from INM chief Francisco Garduno ordered the agency to suspend deportations and transfers.

There’s just no money for it, as the Mexican finance department suspended funding to the INM in November, due to “adjustments” at the end of the year.

The “transfers” mentioned in that memo refer to moving migrants from near the U.S. border back to southern Mexico.

As for the deportations – excuse me, the “assisted returns” – consider that every illegal alien Mexico deports back to his home country is one less illegal who is (at least for now) arriving to our border.

From January to October of this calendar year, the Mexican government deported 51,000 illegal aliens.

During the entire 2022 calendar year, Mexico deported nearly 122,000 people. That was lower than more than 130,000 in calendar year 2021.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday disclosed that the migration surge at the US-Mexico border is likely the worst the situation has been in 20 years.

Mayorkas, who has refused to call the situation a “crisis,” said in a statement that “[w]e are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years.”

The statement referred to the surge as a “difficult situation,” but said his department is working to handle it “successfully.”

Mayorkas disclosed new information, including that most unaccompanied minors housed in cramped detention camps have family already in the US.

“In more than 80 percent of cases, the child has a family member in the United States. In more than 40 percent of cases, that family member is a parent or legal guardian. These are children being reunited with their families who will care for them,” Mayorkas said.

In February, about 30 percent of the people illegally crossing the border were under 18. There were 29,792 unaccompanied children detained without their parents — about five times more than in January — of whom 2,942 were under age 12, according to US Customs and Border Protection.

Two illegal aliens living in Texas have been charged with abusing a six-year-old boy after he was found tied up and living in an outdoor shed by Dallas police officers.

Mexican illegal aliens Esmeralda Lira, 53-years-old, and Jose Balderas, 66-years-old, were arrested by Dallas police officers and charged with felony abandonment and endangering a child this week when Lira’s six-year-old grandson was discovered tied up and living in an outdoor shed filled with rats and insects.

Arrest affidavits obtained by CBS DFW reveal that Lira had allegedly forced the boy to live in the shed for at least two weeks during the coronavirus crisis. The boy told police Lira’s abuse began after he “got out of school for the corona thing” and Balderas allegedly said he was fully aware of the abuse.

The boy told police that when Lira left the residence, she would tie him up, tell him he had been bad, and put him in the outdoor shed. The boy also said he was never allowed indoors, being locked up at night and released in the morning.

Lira, the boy said, would give him a plastic bag to relieve himself in and allegedly only bathed him by spraying him with a hose. The boy told police Lira would kick him and grab him by the ears.

(Update 1-16-2020): A large portion of the caravan, comprised of an estimated 1,500 migrants, has already crossed into Guatemala and is expected to arrive in Chiapas, Mexico, later this afternoon. The number may increase if, as in the past, other migrants join as they proceed.

A Mexican newspaper reported this morning that hundreds are waiting to join the caravan with hopes of being able to enter the United States.

However, the National Institute of Migration and the Mexican National Guard have been deployed on the border with Guatemala. Eloína Sonia Hernandez Aguilar, mayor of Suchiapa, Chiapas, confirmed that "Everything is quiet so far, we are watching."

Original Article (12-30-2020): 

Mexico's Interior Secretary, Olga Sanchez Cordero, confirmed the formation of a United States-bound migrant caravan commencing in Honduras. The caravan is slated to leave the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula by mid-January.

Rumors of the caravan forming began appearing on social media last month.

Taking a drag from her cigarette, a Mexican immigration agent looked out toward a caravan of migrants that grew larger with each step they took on the two-lane highway.

When the agent, who'd covered her uniform with an orange and white shawl, learned that the Central American migrants heading her way numbered more than 1,000, she took off for the restaurant across the street.

“I'm going to have a relaxing Coke,” she told BuzzFeed News.

For five days now hundreds of Central Americans — children, women, and men, most of them from Honduras — have boldly crossed immigration checkpoints, military bases, and police in a desperate, sometimes chaotic march toward the United States. Despite their being in Mexico without authorization, no one has made any effort to stop them.

Organized by a group of volunteers called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders, the caravan is intended to help migrants safely reach the United States, bypassing not only authorities who would seek to deport them, but gangs and cartels who are known to assault vulnerable migrants.

Organizers like Rodrigo Abeja hope that the sheer size of the crowd will give immigration authorities and criminals pause before trying to stop them.

“If we all protect each other we'll get through this together,” Abeja yelled through a loudspeaker on the morning they left Tapachula, on Mexico's border with Guatemala, for the nearly monthlong trek.

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According to a report released by Fronteras at the beginning of March, the number of Mexicans seeking political asylum in the U.S. has nearly doubled in the last year. Fronteras, a multimedia collaboration of radio stations, compared the U.S. Department of Justice Immigration Courts Asylum Statistics from 2010 and 2011, finding an increase of 2,900 applicants as a result of the country's drug war violence.