With nonessential travel set to resume at the U.S.-Mexico border in November, a Catholic priest in Tijuana, the Mexico border city to San Diego, fears an influx of misinformed migrants arriving to the border is imminent.
Father Pat Murphy, the director of Casa del Migrante Tijuana – non-profit group that assists migrants – said migrants have already called stating their intentions to come.
“I don’t think people realize the confusion has already started as we have had a lot more calls about ‘is it true that asylum will open up in November?’ and people traveling sending us Facebook messages,” Murphy said. “I imagine a lot of people will come to the border thinking everything’s open because people only hear open borders and don’t pay attention to the rest.”
The Biden administration announced the nation’s borders with Mexico and Canada would reopen in November for nonessential travel last week. The move only applies to travelers that are fully vaccinated. The current pandemic restrictions have been in place since March 2020.
Confusion over Biden administration’s border policies led to an unprecedented crisis in Del Rio, Texas, at the end of September that saw 30,000 mostly Haitian migrants pass through the border city over a two-week span, and 15,000 underneath the city’s international bridge at one time. The situation overwhelmed local, state and government authorities.
The main factor in the migrants’ decision to flock to border was a misguided belief that they would be granted Temporary Protected Status after the Biden administration had recently extended such protections for more than 100,000 Haitians already living in the United States.
Murphy said he believes the reopening of the borders could have a similar effect.
“It will make the coyotes happy because they’ll have more people to steal from,” Murphy said. “People are desperate. They’re going to pay exorbitant fees, anything to give them a little sense of reality to their hope.”
The priest added that when there’s an influx the border communities “become a haven of economic opportunity for the traffickers and organized crime,” that “will be delighted to have all of these new clients.”
Full story at Angelus News.
When it reopens in November? It’s been open ever since Biden took office, over 1 1/2 million people from all over the world have flooded into our country, infected with Covid, malaria, measles, you name it and they keep coming and coming,The United States as we know it is over 1950s Leave it to Beaver America is gone, this is what you get when you elect Communist Democrats they have destroyed this country and there’s no turning back it’s over ladies and gentlemen. This was planned by the Democrats in order to never elect a Republican again it’s called demographic change bought and paid for by Soros and company and it succeeded
Direct them to the homes of illegal immigration fans Bob One and YFC, who will be demanding vaccine passports.
Well, whoever you are, I have no idea why you would use my “name” as you did. I don’t support open borders, never have! I do support the idea that people who are seeking asylum should be vetted and if qualified allowed to enter. The problem is that there are so many that are seeking to get away from the life of terror that exists in Central American countries, ruled by thugs and drug cartels. While we are on the subject, let’s round up all the Irish here beyond their visa times, nearly 100,000 of them. Another 300,000 from other countries who outstayed their visas. Nobody seems to worry about them because they are white. Over 1,000,000 illegal immigrants have been detained and sent back to Mexico since last October. 200,000 people per month trying to cross illegally is not uncommon. No matter how many Border Patrol officers we send down there, thousands are going to sneak in. But let’s keep trying to protect the border.
Bob One you did not support Trump’s wall or keeping applicants in Mexico while their cases were reviewed. That’s protecting the border, so it’s natural for you to be called out to be held accountable. It’s weak immigration policy that brings violent drug cartels here, if they were peace loving like the illegal Irish, they too would be mostly disregarded.
“…Irish here beyond their visa times, nearly 100,000 of them…”
Sigh.
If it were 1million illegal ANNUAL from ANYWHERE would be serious matter.
(Gosh is it even million a year now? 2 mill? Do we even know or trust what the gov’t tells us in this regard when they have chartered fligths out of Texas with COVID infected illegals to NY and NJ).
I’ve mentioned this before but bears repeating AGAIN.
My ancestors ARE Irish. Came in the last great wave of REGULATED LEGAL immigrants. My grandfather told the story of how his father would not allow Gaelic to be spoken in the house. Irish imigrants joined the military, fire departments AND parish to show what good americans they were. Asssimilation AND contribution.
This is an invasion. It’s population and cultural replacement. They are here for the goodies which you’ve work for your whole life. I’ve spent many many trips to TJ for my job. It’s a s hole.
Call me a bigot if you chose to. I dont want my culture replaced. I dont wany my grandkids to live in third world heck hole — which is pretty much what Cali is now due to pop replacements.
Who do you think builds your houses, cleans them, fixes them, then cooks the food for you they picked for you when you go out for dinner?
When your Irish ancestors came here, there may not have been restrictions on immigration. The first law restricting immigration was the racist Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and even that was after 1/3 of Irish immigrants came here. Many were economic refugees from the potato famine.
BTW I agree it is highly inappropriate to use bullying comments against another commentator especially when they haven’t even commented.
Impossible to bully someone who is anonymously hiding behind a moniker.
> highly inappropriate
Failure to agree with you isn’t bullying
Really inappropriate comment by Resettlement Plan.
Nah, Resettlement Plan is holding Bob One’s feet to the fire in a way that most are hesitant to do. Plan is good.
This is not a forum; it is a comment section. Even if it was a forum, you should not be calling out a commenter who has not even commented on this article.
We often get off subject here, but to bait someone because you don’t like something they said on another article is inappropriate.
You really should not be making comments about a person anyway. It is appropriate to respond to their comment.
If you have a comment about someone’s comment on another article, go back to that article and comment there.
Does everyone know how to find the past articles? It seems like once an article drops off the home page, there are few comments on it.
“While we are on the subject, let’s round up all the Irish here beyond their visa times, nearly 100,000 of them. Another 300,000 from other countries who outstayed their visas. Nobody seems to worry about them because they are white.” This displays the limited thinking of the liberal mind, everything is racist to them. No Bob One, the 100K Irish who are here illegally are not funnel fentanyl into the country via Drug Cartels nor are they involved in human trafficking.
But, they are here illegally.
What do you are Bob One, you voted for man who busted the Southern Border wide open in the name of Diversity… its time for an American Divorce
bohemond, not again, please. You don’t know for whom I voted. Second, I am a proponent of keeping the border closed except for those seeking asylum and those who have been properly vetted.
Use precise parlance.
They are invaders. It is felonious trespass. This negates any future claims on citizenship
A country without borders ISN’T.