Intel Experts Warn of Mass Illegal Migration

All signs point to another record breaking spring of illegal border crossings at our southern border. As CAPS recently documented, the number of illegal border crossings in January of 2022 was double what it was in January of 2021.

Now, as covid restrictions are lifted, intel experts are warning of an influx of migrants trying to cross our border illegally.

As reported in Axios:

U.S. intelligence officials are privately bracing for a massive influx of more than 170,000 migrants at the Mexico border if COVID-era policies that allow instant expulsions during the public health emergency are ended, sources with direct knowledge of the discussions tell Axios.

• • The response under way includes a newly created — and previously unreported — Southwest Border Coordination Center (SBCC), essentially a war room to coordinate an interagency response.
    

Why it matters: Border officials have used Title 42 more than 1 million times to rapidly expel migrants at the southern border without hearing asylum claims. But the Trump-era order wasn’t set up to be permanent, and senior Biden officials are preparing for its end as the virus is brought under control.

While the extent of the mass illegal migration won’t be fully understood for some weeks, one thing is clear: Biden’s immigration policies have utterly failed at stopping the influx of migrants trying to cross our southern border illegally.