Open Borders Joe is off to a roaring start
Over the weekend, Karen wrote about the migrant caravan leaving Honduras by way of Guatemala. The eventually 9,000 strong force intended to press their way into Mexico and then onward to the United States so incoming President Joe Biden could “honor his commitments” and let them all in. John updated us yesterday on the lack of progress most of the would-be illegal aliens experienced. While Honduran forces appeared to “escort” them, Guatemalan security rounded up most of them and put them on buses back to their homeland. Some managed to break through, but their welcome in Mexico was destined to be a cold one, so the crisis appears to be largely averted, at least for the moment. What went less reported in most of the major media outlets was the response to this news from the incoming Biden administration. They had a message for the migrant caravan and it probably wasn’t what the travelers were expecting to hear. Biden’s team told them that “now is not the time” for such a caravan, though “help is on the way.” What sort of a message is that? (Fox News) A migrant caravan moving from Honduras toward the U.S. border called on the incoming Biden administration to honor their “commitments” to the migrants moving north, citing the incoming administration’s vow to ease Trump’s restrictions on asylum. But on Sunday, an unnamed Biden transition official said that migrants hoping to claim asylum in the U.S. during the first few weeks of the new administration “need to understand they’re not going to be able to come into the United States immediately,” NBC News reports… The Biden transition official, however, warned migrants against coming to the U.S. during the early days of the new administration, telling NBC that while “there’s help on the way,” now “is not the time to make the journey.
