“Asylum seekers” arriving in New York City just set a new record: nearly 4,000 in a single week.
And the routine inflow is double what it was a year ago.
It’s getting worse, not better, and Homeland Security’s belated move to build a few miles of wall won’t change a thing.
Team Biden hasn’t done a thing to slow the tide at the border, only fiddled with its accounting of the influx and opened various new paths for illegal migrants to enter “legally” — with each fresh “pathway” adding to the “come on in!” signal.
Indeed, if New York’s experience roughly tracks the number entering, then the border has only grown more porous this last year.
The city counts more than 126,700 arrivals since spring 2022, and now the FDNY is warning that several migrant centers could become fiery deathtraps.
A new congressional report says the Biden White House has allowed 99% of migrants to stay.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement releases show ICE is officially overseeing 5.7 million “paroled” migrants inside the country — 2.4 million more than pre-Biden.
Not that ICE actually knows where they all are, not to mention the million or two “gotaways” who’ve entered without ever being stopped because the Border Patrol is so overwhelmed.
Even stalwart progressives are starting to get it: NYC’s crush “is going to continue to happen until something happens at the border or people are diverted elsewhere,” says City Councilwoman Diana Ayala (D-Harlem).
Biden still hasn’t visited the border to see what’s going on. Will his handlers at least let him go to East Harlem to get an earful?