Biden’s final border lie: That hundreds of thousands of migrants can’t be deported

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When Joe Biden, successful 1 of his last acts arsenic president, approved a sweeping hold of “Temporary Protected Status” to 600,000 Venezuelans, astir Americans could not cognize that his authoritative justification was based astir wholly connected a lie.

TPS prevents deportations for 18 months, ever renewable, connected grounds that location countries are simply excessively unsafe to nonstop the migrants back.

“It was determined that an 18-month TPS hold is warranted based connected the terrible humanitarian exigency the state continues to look owed to governmental and economical crises nether the inhumane [Venezuelan President Nicolás] Maduro regime,” a January 10, 2025 Department of Homeland Security property merchandise announced, going connected to mention precocious levels of transgression and unit and deficiency of entree to food, medicine, healthcare, water, electricity, and fuel.

Venezuela surely is terrible, but near unsaid is that astir of the deportation-protected Venezuelans hadn’t been surviving successful Venezuela.

Almost each 1 of the thousands of Venezuelans crossing Biden’s unfastened borderline already lived successful perfectly safe, prosperous different countries that had granted them asylum, residency, and enactment authorizations, oregon different tolerated their beingness off-book — specified arsenic Colombia, Ecuador and Chile.

The lone crushed hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans surviving extracurricular Venezuela near was due to the fact that they realized Biden would fto them into the US unchecked.

They came for higher wages — not owed to immoderate information they faced.

I’ve personally interviewed hundreds of Venezuelans these past 4 years. Not 1 of them told maine they were coming from Venezuela.

“I looooved Ecuador! It’s beautiful. The radical are precise kind. They person a batch of values. And the fruit, successful particular, is precise good! Anything with onions is precise good!” said 1 well-appointed Venezuelan pistillate I met successful Juarez who had conscionable received U.S. support to participate connected a humanitarian extortion permit. “It’s a precise generous place, a precise beauteous place.”

Haitian migrants threw retired Brazilian passports similar these, which writer Todd Bensman collected, due to the fact that it showed they already had a harmless state to unrecorded in. They preferred to transverse Biden’s unfastened borderline and falsely state “asylum.” Todd Bensman

She positively beamed astatine the bully memories of having lived successful Ecuador the past 7 years making a bully surviving arsenic manager of a Kentucky Fried Chicken edifice successful Quito, loving each infinitesimal of beingness there.

She and her fellow lone decided to wantonness Ecaudor upon learning that those brainsick Americans were abruptly letting everyone successful to notch up to an adjacent richer lifestyle.

I heard the aforesaid stories from Haitians, who besides received their extended deportation stays from Biden.

Every 1 of them crossing the US borderline had been surviving safely successful Chile and Brazil, which took Haitians successful by their hundreds of thousands starting a decennary agone and ever since.

How to get astir this inconvenient information erstwhile crossing the US borderline and claiming you can’t beryllium returned to Haiti due to the fact that it’s conscionable excessively terrible?

Easy: Lie.

Chilean ID cards abandoned by migrants attempting to question asylum successful the United States. Todd Bensman

And propulsion distant immoderate grounds of it erstwhile you transverse the Rio Grande. I’ve recovered hundreds of their burned, torn, and twisted up Chilean ID cards and Brazilian passports that would beryllium their lies if American authorities recovered them.

Many of their children were calved successful those countries and held citizenship.

One communicative emblematic of galore I heard from Haitians came from a 24-year-old Haitian antheral I met astatine a hostel afloat of his countrymen successful the acold northwestern Costa Rica municipality of La Cruz successful 2021.

He and his member sheltered successful spot successful Santiago, Chile, 4 years earlier, successful precocious 2016, arsenic Donald Trump was connected the run way vowing to deport amerciable immigrants.

Mexican ID cards belonging to migrants. Todd Bensman

While waiting retired the Trump years, the young antheral told maine helium recovered enactment arsenic a baker and an Uber Eats driver. He and his member made bully wealth and built their savings fund. The member was already successful the US and flagged him to travel too.

I wondered aloud if thing atrocious successful Chile pushed him to flight north.

“Did the authorities of Chile ever endanger you?” I asked.

“No, that ne'er happened there.”

“So, you were ne'er afraid?

“No, never.”

This chap had loved Chile. He showed maine iPhone videos of beauteous Chilean beaches he’d enjoyed and others depicting municipality Santiago nightlife. His enactment afforded him his favourite fashionable covering brands connected the internet.

“It’s a bully country,” helium said of Chile.

The brothers lone decided to wantonness that bully beingness due to the fact that the Biden triumph “makes it easier to get into the States.”

“It’s the reason,” helium added.

Asked however helium would comparison his Santiago beingness to the 1 helium near successful Haiti, helium promptly answered: “A 1000 times better.”

Then wherefore travel to the United States borderline now, erstwhile his beingness successful Chile was truthful peaceful and non-threatening? I asked.

“Because,” helium said, chuckling, “life successful the United States volition beryllium a cardinal times better.”

The Trump medication will, of course, request to diplomatically musculus these countries to instrumentality backmost their erstwhile residents.

But the medication and its supporters indispensable cognize that doomsday advocator claims that removing “protective status” from these astir galore of nationalities who crossed are flagrant lies.

These deportations volition not spot these immigrants successful harm’s mode but, rather, enactment them backmost to safe, blessed places they liked for years and which, by astir accounts, liked them back.

It’s important that the American radical cognize that suggesting thing other is simply a lie.

Todd Bensman, a elder nationalist information chap astatine the Center for Immigration Studies, is the writer of “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis successful U.S. History.”

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