USA 2024 Elections Thread

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/80-000-immigrants-released-el-paso-border-surge
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2022/12/18/el-paso-state-of-emergency-migrant-crisis-title-42-immigration/69737710007/

Texas Border Towns Prepare For Migrant Wave With Shipping Containers
And Razor Wire

Even with the Supreme Court temporarily extending a Trump-era policy
that bars asylum applicants from entering the U.S. to protect the
American population from Covid-19, the Federal Government has offered
no viable solutions and little to no help to southern border states to
stop a growing wave of illegal immigrants.  White House officials
continue to deny that there is a legitimate problem while also
claiming they have been "doing the work since day one" to secure the
border.  States and border towns are now left to deal with the threat
on their own.

Title 42 is a law established in 2020 by Donald Trump which coincided
with the governments covid pandemic response.  It requires Border
Patrol and law enforcement to immediately transfer apprehended illegal
immigrants back across the border instead of allowing them to stay
within the US while awaiting courts to rule on their citizenship
status.  Using the guise of "asylum seeker," millions of migrants are
crossing the border in an attempt to remain in the country with access
to welfare benefits and amenities.

As we have seen in places like El Paso, there is also the ongoing
problem of Democrat controlled "sanctuary cities" that have refused to
cooperate with an overall state run response.  This past week the
Mayor of El Paso, Oscar Leeser, finally admitted that the region is
facing an emergency, which means he will be begging for relief funds
but still will not do anything to stop migrants from flooding in.
According to public data, more than 80,000 migrants have invaded El
Paso in the last four months.

Leeser warned that after Title 42 ends on December 21st the number of
migrants released onto city streets will be "incredible" - Up to 6000
per day or more.  El Paso has requested additional personnel for
feeding and housing operations, additional busing operations and state
law enforcement.

Border towns with no prevention operations and those that act as
sanctuaries will undoubtedly be overrun in a matter of days once Title
42 expires.  In some cases (like El Paso) they are already being
overrun.  Some towns in Texas are starting to realize the gravity of
the situation and they are taking action along with state officials,
with local news reporting efforts to quickly build make-shift border
walls with shipping containers and razor wire:

    NEW: The state of Texas is continuing to prepare for the drop of
Title 42 next week by placing more shipping containers as a makeshift
wall at a popular illegal crossing area in Eagle Pass. Razor wire is
in front of them. Also setting up floodlights pointed towards the
river. pic.twitter.com/8Sgfi3o6pJ
    — Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 17, 2022

While this is better than nothing, the effects of the end of Title 42
are not being properly conveyed to the general public by the
government or the media and it is likely that the border crisis will
erupt to new levels over the course of the next few months going into
Spring 2023.  The conditions for a humanitarian disaster are stacked
like dominoes; a perfect storm that the American public will be
hearing about on the news daily next year, but only after the damage
has already been done.