The takeaway from the second presidential debate as far as immigration goes is this: Democrat candidate Joe Biden and his unhinged supporters know nothing about the subject.
Biden actually believes the federal government’s failed catch-and-release policy, which freed border jumpers on the condition they return for a hearing, is successful, and suggested that all those illegals caught and released return for an immigration hearing. Not true, data show.
Worse still, when President Trump rightly said coyotes are smuggling illegal-alien kids into the country, Biden’s army of Twitter robots repeatedly collapsed in hysterics. They ridiculed Trump for believing actual coyotes — meaning the wild canine — smuggle the kids.
Happily, Trump cornered Biden into admitting he will give amnesty to the estimated 11 million illegal aliens roaming American streets, but that aside, Biden blew a big chance to prove he had mastered a major issue.
The Exchange
Biden’s false claims on catch-and-release came after Trump said his administration ended it.
“The catch and release, you know what he’s talking about there? If in fact you had a family came across and they were arrested, they in fact were given a date to show up for their hearing,” he said. “They were released. And guess what? They showed up for a hearing.”
That claim is false, as Trump quickly explained, although his number, one percent, wasn’t quite correct, either.
The Center for Immigration Studies reported the figures for 1996 through 2017, a survey that does not use numbers from the recent deluge of fiscal 2019-2020.
“American immigration courts consistently have the highest failure to appear (FTA) rates of any state or federal courts in the country,” CIS reported:
From 1996 through 2017, 37 percent of all aliens free pending trial disappeared. From the 2,680,598 foreign nationals that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released on their own recognizance, 1,320,000, received deportation orders, 75 percent of them (993,593) for failure to appear. Only 25 percent of this group — some 324,402 people altogether — actually tried their cases….
Immigration trial courts issued three times more deportation orders for failure to appear in court than deportation orders for cases that were actually tried (993,593 ÷ 324,402) over the last 22 fiscal years. On average, more than 45,000 people each year disappeared from court since 1996, making failures to appear the single greatest source of deportation orders in the immigration court system.
CIS also reported these numbers:
• 43 percent of all aliens free pending trial failed to appear for court in 2017.
• Aliens abscond from court more often today than they did before 9/11.
• Deportation orders for failing to appear in court exceed deportation orders from cases that were tried by 306 percent.
• 46 percent of all unaccompanied children disappeared from U.S. immigration courts from 2013 through 2017.
• 49 percent of unaccompanied children failed to appear in U.S. immigration courts in 2017.
Catch-and-release aside, Biden unwisely divulged his Make New Democrat Voters program. “We made a mistake” in deporting illegals during the Obama administration, Biden said, but then again, this time around, “I’ll be President of the United States, not Vice President of the United States.”
After the sneak attack on his former boss, the one he called “clean” and “articulate,” Biden explained his immigration policy. Amnesty for anyone who can jump the border or swim the Rio Grande:
I’ve made it very clear. Within a 100 days, I’m going to send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people. And all of those so-called dreamers, those DACA kids, they’re going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship…. You’re five years old. Your parents are taking across the Rio Grande River and it’s illegal. And you say, “Oh, no, Mom. Leave me here. I’m not going to go with you.” They been here. Many of them are model citizens. Over 20,000 of them are first responders out there taking care of people during this crisis. We owe them. We owe them.
Coyotes
But what happened after the debate was at once amusing and terrifying.
More than a few of Biden’s feverish left-wing supporters on Twitter did not know that coyote, in immigration parlance, means someone who smuggles illegal aliens across the border.
“Imagine calling the immigrant parents that bring their children to the United States for a better life ‘Coyotes,’” wrote leftist Harvard boy David Hogg. Hogg rocketed to fame after the anti-gun media made him a pundit after the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. “The level of xenophobia is sickening.”
“I know what a coyote is,” young David tried to claim a day later, but the cover-up tweets were too little, too late. His tweet says what it says.
Dar’shun Kendrick, a state representative in Georgia you’ve never heard of, thought likewise:
Did @realDonaldTrump just say 545 kids they can’t find their parents for came over through “cartels and coyotes”?! How the hell does a coyote bring a whole human across the border?! Lord—–stop talking.
No, he didn’t say that.
They weren’t the only two, as a number of tweets that curated similar message showed:
Apropos of Trump’s remark, it’s worth observing that illegal aliens rent children to cross the border as a “family,” then recycle them back across the border so another illegal alien can rent them.
