Border Patrol Blockade Effects
And, Capitalism Finds A Way
Good Morning friends,
We didn’t plan on taking the entire week of Thanksgiving off, but a lack of events and anything compelling to report did the trick.
It wasn’t just our imagination either. Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe told us shortly before Thanksgiving Day that Border Patrol checkpoints recently set up on some of the Ranch Roads in the County were hoovering up all of the likely busts in the county.
Smugglers were apparently unaware of the newly created Border Patrol checkpoints on RR 334 and RR 674, which grabbed somewhere north of a dozen different smuggling loads, and left Kinney County Sheriff’s Deputies with a whole lot less work for the week.
“It was a serious dent in our numbers— at least 12 cases that we would have had,” said Sheriff Coe, who also says he’s not complaining— as it is, the month of November has stayed on track to be the 2nd busiest month this year. As of Wednesday last week, for example, Deputies confiscated 15 guns — a record number of gun seizures. Odds are very high they’ve seized a few more over the weekend, just judging by the lights and sirens we’ve personally witnessed heading north on Ann Street, now that Border Patrol has taken the checkpoints down.
This might beg the question— why doesn’t Border Patrol keep such checkpoints going full time, for the duration of this crisis? Well it’s almost certainly a manpower issue. Whatever allowed them to position these checkpoints is almost certainly going to be blown out of the water with the expiration of Title 42. One assumes Border Patrol will need all available hands in Eagle Pass and Del Rio, just to handle the Venezuelans and others who’ve been massing along the border waiting for Title 42 to expire.
Meanwhile— there are indications that the White House is creating a secretive defacto administrative amnesty program for some illegals.
It is alarming. And it should bother anyone with a shred of conscience considering how two-faced it seems. And that’s just the surface of the program.
We're told Charlotte Cuthbertson and Todd Bensman caught the scoop independently of each other just a few days ago— odds are you might have missed it while getting ready for the holiday.
MEXICALI, Mexico – This northern Mexican city across from California is one of the latest to go live with an unreported, legally questionable new immigration strategy that President Joe Biden’s administration has discreetly unfurled for months all along the U.S. southern border.
Twice a day, seven days a week since September, Mexicali city officials working closely with Biden’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection, on a secure shared “CBP-ONE” online platform, select hundreds of people a month for their escorted government-to-government handoffs through the land port of entry to Calexico, Calif. Once the Americans check their paperwork, they legally admit intending illegal border crossers like Nicaraguan Maria Esperanza Diaz Ruiz, 42, into the U.S. interior under a questionable authority known as “humanitarian or significant public benefit parole.”
—Todd Bensman, Reporter and Immigration Analyst
What the heck is humanitarian or significant public benefit parole?
Well, it’s a bit of a lottery ticket. It lets you enter, work, and apply for asylum. Literally a start on a new life.
Maria came to Mexicali as soon as she could. A local migrant shelter took her in, and while she was fed and housed in relative security, American volunteers, lawyers, and activists helped her collect the documents America required: just the right documented story of woe, a psychologist attesting to suffered traumas and fear of returning home, proof of citizenship and identity, a clear criminal background, need for urgent free American medical treatment, and a sponsor in the U.S. willing to financially support the applicant. The story Maria proffered is that she worked for a government official in Nicaragua whose homosexuality drew death threats from her ex-husband, also a government worker, against her and her boss.
“I had to leave because I would be killed,” she claimed.
On that claimed basis, Maria was now waiting for a Mexican immigration service bus to drive her and 30 others in her group into America, still unable to believe her unlikely good fortune.
“I am so happy, so, so happy,” Maria said.
Teams of Mexicali city administrators work feverishly to enter each chosen immigrant into the CBP-ONE data portal so the Americans can pre-approve them for handoff at the Calexico border crossing.
After a couple of hours, a Mexican immigration van finally pulled up to the front. A white-uniformed federal officer swung open the van door as the 25 men, women, and children piled in with a few belongings. The bus transported them into a gated section of the port of entry, where they were to be handed over to Americans for processing.
—Bensman, again
There’s a whole lot more to the story— including details about how word of this new avenue of entering the United States is spreading quickly by word of mouth and cellphone— with thousands already clogging the CBP-ONE systems that try to administer it.
Good for anyone with a legitimate reason to come and seek asylum of course. But what are the odds that every tale of woe that these people are being coached to relay to American authorities is legitimate? Do the immigration officials administering these programs even care if there’s more than a thin veneer of an excuse for entering the United States?
Given how they still attempt to claim the border is secure, one finds it doubtful.
For now the program is in Mexicali only, but Bensman suggests there are signs it may soon expand border-wide.
And finally this morning, we mentioned something in our sub-title above about capitalism finding a way.
One of the biggest headaches for people getting arrested for smuggling illegal aliens has been the impounding of their cars. Many of the female suspects wind up getting dropped off at the local Stripes— released for lack of jail space to house them. They have to wait there, or somewhere else, for friends and family to come give them a ride.
Given how many come here from as far away as Oklahoma and other locations, this is a very impractical situation. Well, it seems a local man has begun operating as an ad-hoc taxi-service— leaving his phone number with the folks at Stripes, who in turn relay it to those suspects who can’t get family to come and get them.
For gas money and a small fee, this individual is taking them to Del Rio and dropping them off at the Greyhound bus stop there.
Genius.
We doubt that he’s making a killing, but he’s definitely doing a huge service for those that need him, and keeping people from piling up at the Stripes, given how regularly busts have been happening.
And that’ll do it for now.
Thanks for reading. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and are lined up for an even better Christmas.
As always this newsletter is produced independently of our day job at the Kinney County Sheriff’s Office and shouldn’t be mistaken for any kind of an official communication from county officials. Indeed, any errors, misdeeds, or other issues are entirely our own.
We’ll see you again, sometime further on down the road.
Thanks for the update. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.