Another Caravan: 2,000 Migrants Heading for Southern Border

On Thursday, 2,000 immigrants departed southern Mexico in a caravan bound for the United States’ southern border. On the same day, Joe Biden met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and failed to address the caravans or the crisis at the southern border.

New York Post: This year, the US has seen historic numbers of border crossings and arrests along the southern border as an increasing number of caravans continued to travel northbound since Biden took office. In the 2021 fiscal year, US Border Patrol agents recorded arresting over 1.7 million illegal immigrants — the second-highest annual figure ever recorded.

Despite the record numbers, migration across the US-Mexico border was not a key focus during Thursday’s meeting. . . Prior to the meeting, the White House revealed the border crisis would sit on the back burner in the conversation. “There’s not a real focus, this time around, on our borders,” an administration official told reporters on a preview call ahead of the talks.

Earlier in November, an even larger group of nearly 4,000 migrants began the journey through Mexico to the United States. Republicans demanded the Biden-Harris administration take action to secure the southern border.

Fox News: Republicans Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., sent a letter to the Biden administration urging officials to enforce federal immigration law to combat a migrant caravan that is approaching the southern border. . .

In the letter, the Republicans urged the Biden administration to “enforce our immigration laws as we do any other laws and ensure migrants in this caravan with nonexistent asylum claims will not be released into the United States.”

The Biden-Harris administration is incentivizing illegal immigration with $450,000 settlement payments to some families that illegally entered the United States over the past few years.

Bottom Line: Biden-Harris administration officials say the crisis at the southern border is “not a real focus” despite the ongoing national security and humanitarian disaster.