These Huge Exceptions Show Biden’s Border Security Order Is A Faked Political Stunt
The executive order took effect overnight on Wednesday, when it supposedly “suspended and limited” noncitizens from entering the United States. In reality, the order is littered with loopholes and exceptions that will allow migrants to continue illegally entering the country by the millions.
Loophole No. 1: “Border securing measures” will be tossed out when illegal migrant numbers show signs of decline.
In section two of the order, President Biden instructs the Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to abandon the executive order’s limitations on illegal immigration when the number of “encounters” averages less than 1,500 per day. It’s nearly halfway through the order before it explains when the purported “border securing measures” are going to cease.
“Encounters” refers to two types of interactions at the southern border. The first is apprehensions by U.S. Border Patrol, which are the arrest of an illegal migrant. The second is inadmissibles, which includes illegal migrants who are encountered at the border who fail to meet criteria for legal entry or humanitarian protection. Since January, encounters at the southern border have reached more than 1.5 million illegal migrants.
This loophole ensures Biden’s order will no longer be enforced as soon as it reduces illegal migration, completely undermining border security.
The executive order provides broad allowances for illegal migrants with “various urgent considerations” and vague “humanitarian and public health interests.” Immigration officers can also allow migrants into the country based on ambiguous “operational considerations.”
Limitations on entry also won’t apply to unaccompanied children. Although Democrats attempt to paint these types of exceptions for unaccompanied minors as compassionate and values based, they put children in danger.
In 2023, The New York Times reported the Department of Health and Human Services was unaware of the whereabouts of tens of thousands of migrant children who had been placed into their custody. Others still are exploited by illegal migrants who view children as their ticket into the country. Many of these children are likely enslaved, sexually and otherwise.
Not only do these vague exceptions further ensure the executive orders’ limitations won’t actually apply to thousands of lawbreaking foreign citizens, they also endanger migrants.
Loophole No. 3: Internal Memo Carves Out Dozens of Ways Migrants Can Avoid Deportation
An internal memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement indicates the Biden administration carved out further exceptions behind the scenes. Even if illegal migrants do not meet the vague exceptions listed above, they can avoid immediate deportation by claiming “fear of return.” Agents are instructed to listen for statements as vague as, “I am afraid to go to [country]” and even non-verbal “changes in tone of voice, incoherent speech patterns, panic attacks, or an unusual level of silence” to determine whether an illegal migrant should avoid deportation and be referred for a “credible fear interview.”
The Executive Order Is Fake Border Protection
This slew of exceptions reveals what many suspected: the order is chock-full of loopholes undermining Biden’s claimed intent to limit illegal immigration.