Are We Witnessing The Collapse Of The U.S. Border?

Hoping For Asylum, Migrants Strain U.S. Border -- New York Times

HIDALGO, Tex. — Border Patrol agents in olive uniforms stood in broad daylight on the banks of the Rio Grande, while on the Mexican side smugglers pulled up in vans and unloaded illegal migrants.

The agents were clearly visible on that recent afternoon, but the migrants were undeterred. Mainly women and children, 45 in all, they crossed the narrow river on the smugglers’ rafts, scrambled up the bluff and turned themselves in, signaling a growing challenge for the immigration authorities.

After six years of steep declines across the Southwest, illegal crossings have soared in South Texas while remaining low elsewhere. The Border Patrol made more than 90,700 apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley in the past six months, a 69 percent increase over last year.

The migrants are no longer primarily Mexican laborers. Instead they are Central Americans, including many families with small children and youngsters without their parents, who risk a danger-filled journey across Mexico. Driven out by deepening poverty but also by rampant gang violence, increasing numbers of migrants caught here seek asylum, setting off lengthy legal procedures to determine whether they qualify.

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My Comment: The churches want members in their pews. Employers want cheap labor. Politicians want future voters. And the voters vote for the politicians who make this all possible. Being one who has traveled through Central and South America and who seen the wretched poverty there .... here is an easy prediction. The flood of refugees now pouring into the U.S. is not a flood .... it is really just a trickle. When word gets out that enforcement and penalties are no longer really being enforced in the U.S. .... expect the tsunami.