Strongly disagree with this entire piece as a factual matter. The border has been “surging” with single adults (who made up 72% of all apprehensions last month) since Title 42 in spring 2020, and family apprehensions remain <50% of 2019. The evidence for the thesis is missing!
Last month, 100,000 people were encountered at the border and 72,000 of them were single adults, almost all of whom were expelled. Single adult apprehensions have been spiking since spring 2020 and that FACT is literally *not mentioned once* in this piece. That actively misleads.
- The ACAs were suspended in March 2020. Biden terminating did not change a thing.
- Remain in Mexico enriched the cartels by creating a jobs program for kidnappers and torturers. Easily 1 in 10 people subject to it—or more—were victimized.
I'd like @DanCrenshawTX to take 7 minutes and watch this video from 2019 where a woman subject to Remain in Mexico describes being kidnapped and hearing her husband being tortured, and likely killed.
What he praises was a conveyor belt for inhumanity.
Having read the article, it's clear that J.D. Vance knows literally nothing about immigration, just the fevered talked points that ping around the Fox News ecosystem. This entire thing is ridiculous posturing designed to align him more towards the Trumpist anti-immigrant wing.
None of @JDVance1's claims are true. No one is being "invited" in. The Biden administration is shouting to the rooftops that people shouldn't come now.
But guess what? Desperation is a powerful motivator for people wanting a better life, just like it was for Vance's ancestors.
This entire thing is just mindless shallow talking point after mindless shallow talking point.
He seriously argues that we shouldn't pass a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants—something two thirds of Americans support—until we, what, defeat the cartels? So... never?
There appears to be a major sound problem with the hearing, and we can't hear a thing from Chairman Thompson as he gives his opening statement. No sound on either the Youtube livestream or the C-Span livestream. Not an auspicious start to things!
Anyway, even though we can't hear Chairman @BennieGThompson give his opening statement, here's a link to the prepared remarks. Still unclear if this is a tech issue or if he just forgot to unmute himself? homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/…
The first lawsuit filed against the enforcement priorities memo comes from the Florida AG's office, which makes it all the way to paragraph 6 before telling an outright lie.
Florida's attempt to throw out Biden's new enforcement priorities has been assigned to District Judge Charlene Honeywell, an Obama appointee, and to Magistrate Judge Sean Flynn, a Trump appointee.
I particularly like the part where they scream in all caps that TPS is supposed to last "maybe a few months"—when by law initial TPS designations must be 6-18 months long and Congress fully authorized extending designations.
This tweet is also hilariously incoherent. The law requires that a person seeking TPS benefits have been "continuously physically present in the United States since the effective date of the most recent designation of that state."
So FAIR thinks Biden should have broken the law?
Also totally incoherent is this tweet, which claims that asylum is a "temporary protection" (it's not, it's a path to citizenship) for people "to work for positive change back home," which, huh?
Do they think people granted asylum are required to be human rights advocates?
This is an important step towards creating a headquarters-level review of ICE decisions.
Getting national policies to stick at the local level is always hard, so this escalation process is vital to ensuring that the new priorities don't just get shrugged off.
The site for the new ICE Case Review process says that "cases involving individuals detained in ICE custody or pending imminent removal will be prioritized."
So if local ICE isn't budging on a case that's no longer a priority, give this new HQ escalation process a try!