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Even before Biden took office, Thomas said they started to notice an increase in foot traffic in the late fall of 2020 because the Mexican cartels knew the more "hands-off" approach Biden would take when dealing with the southwest border. The effect is what he's calling "Obama 2.0" since they saw similar behavior under President Barack Obama's administration.
"When [Trump] took office, we saw that this area out here went completely dead. Nobody was moving, nobody was smuggling because [the cartels] knew that Trump was going to put all hands on deck out down here and that they would be intercepted so it came to a screeching halt," Matthews said. "It was a very slow trickle to get back to some kind of normal but it never got back to where it was."
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office saw a dramatic decline in human trafficking for a few years in the early 2010s because the cartels wanted to focus on getting drugs into the United States. Once marijuana started to become legal in the U.S., it devalued their cash crop so the cartels switched to hard drugs, such as fentanyl, which is easier to transport and is not limited to growing seasons like marijuana. Now, law enforcement in the county is seeing human smuggling making a comeback in addition to the regular drug runs.
originally posted by: ketsuko
Only now it's "overflow".
The infamous "cage" facility is being re-opened to house immigrant minors and children.
Yesterday, Redstate’s Nick Arama wrote on Joe Biden re-opening a facility to house the children of illegal immigrants and other unaccompanied minors that make it across the border. This was in stark contrast to previous pronouncements that he was going to shutter them and release everyone.
I mean I guess it was good enough for Obama, wasn't it?
The other funny thing is that Biden supporters are making the exact same defense arguments that Trump supporters did when AOC was taking her tear-filled photos of empty parking lots and claiming we had concentration camps in the US.
Do you notice anything? I do. It’s the exact same reality based argument Trump officials and Trump supporters made during the previous four years. Indeed, you actually can’t let unaccompanied children just roam the streets. Yes, ICE attempts to find them sponsors, something that also happened under Trump. There aren’t actually “cages,” but temporary holding areas made up of fencing before they are transferred to dorms. And while none of those facts mattered under Trump, under Biden, the narrative has shifted on a dime.
Look what difference one little letter makes ... (R) to (D). Same day, same policy, different party.
Now for the reality: If you don't like the idea of kids in cages at these facilities, then you want an administration that actively discourages illegal crossings. The reality is that the Biden Admin isn't going to do that. So you will have more unaccompanied illegal minors and minors being used by child traffickers to sell as asylum accessories. That means more of these facilities, not less of them.
edit on Wed Feb 3 2021 by DontTreadOnMe because: title edit /Reaffirming Our Desire For Productive Political Debate (REVISED)
Joe Biden’s newest immigration orders include task force to help hundreds of migrant children find their parents