By Kelli Ballard
It has been more than a week since President Joe Biden took executive action on the border, reportedly to help stem the flow of migrants into the United States. Part of the plan is to turn back migrants and asylum seekers once 2,500 people have crossed per day. But is it working?
When the president announced his new plan, the media went crazy, publishing articles that praised its hard-line policies and alluding to a swift end to the immigration crisis. Is that the truth? The numbers show otherwise.
Liberty Nation News detailed the new border policy once it was enacted and explained that migrants were supposed to be barred once their numbers reached 2,500 per day but would be in effect only when the border was overwhelmed. On Thursday, June 6, two days after enforcement began, there were around 10,000 migrants in Border Patrol custody, about four times what the policy was supposed to allow. Video taken by the New York Post also showed “hundreds of migrants from mainly China and Turkey still crossing the border unhindered into California, then rounded up by Border Patrol,” the outlet........