The more than 150,000 illegal aliens apprehended at the U.S. border with Mexico probably liked news this week from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Cuban-born visa fraudster.
Immigration authorities under Mayorkas’ sinistral command, he announced, will not deport the “majority” of illegals here now. Instead, authorities will go through a long list of criteria to decide who must be kicked back where they belong.
As practical matter, if an illegal is not a rapist, terrorist, or murderer, he has a free pass to stay. Then again, some criminals will stay, as the Biden Regime announced in May. That’s good for the relentless marching caravan of “migrants” who trekked through Mexico to enter the United States.
October Numbers
The first month of fiscal 2022 was a good one for illegals and the Biden Regime, although perhaps a tad disappointing for the latter, which is trying to overwhelm the country with new Democrat voters.
Border agents apprehended a mere 164,303 illegals either at ports of entry or trying to jump the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported. That’s a 14.4 percent decline from the 192,001 illegals caught in September, the last month of fiscal 2021.
Border agents apprehended 1.73 million illegals last year — enough to populate Phoenix, Arizona. Agents handled some 4,777 every day last year; 199 per hour.
[wpmfpdf id=”149065″ embed=”1″ target=””]October’s breakdown shows that 158,575 illegals tried to jump the border, while 5,278 showed up at ports of entry.
Almost 110,000 were single adults. The rest were in “families” or unaccompanied “minors.”
Mixed in with this cohort were 688 criminals.
Of those apprehended, CBP reported, 27 percent were previously deported and 91,894 were expelled under Title 42, the law that permits immigration authorities to deport someone who is diseased.
But that means more than 72,000 weren’t expelled.
[wpmfpdf id=”149066″ embed=”1″ target=””]Majority Will Stay
Going forward, Mayorkas announced two days ago, a majority of illegals in the country won’t be sent home.
“Today is an important step forward in ensuring that our workforce is empowered to exercise its prosecutorial discretion and focus its enforcement efforts on those who pose a threat to our national security, public safety, and border security,” Mayorkas said:
DHS will carry out our mission to safeguard our country justly and humanely. In making our enforcement decisions, we will focus our efforts on the greatest threats while also recognizing that the majority of undocumented noncitizens, who have been here for many years and who have contributed positively to our country’s well-being, are not priorities for removal. [Emphasis added].
With the new guidelines, officers will, to the fullest extent possible, obtain and review the entire criminal record, administrative record, and any other investigative information available, to include both aggravating and mitigating factors, in making their enforcement decisions. This will ensure a thorough and case-by-case assessment of whether enforcement action is warranted and appropriate, thus allowing DHS to focus its limited resources on cases of greatest importance to the national interest.
The early Christmas gift to American taxpayers from Mayorkas, who was caught finagling visas for rich foreigners during his time with the Obama Regime, follows through on the no-deportation policy announced in September, which elaborated, in turn, on another from February.
As The New American reported two months ago, Mayorkas essentially halted the deportation of anyone not convicted of rape or mass murder.
Mayorkas offered a list of “mitigating factors” that might permit ICE to let an illegal-alien rapist or murderer stay in the country:
• advanced or tender age;
• lengthy presence in the United States;
• a mental condition that may have contributed to the criminal conduct, or a physical or mental condition requiring care or treatment;
• status as a victim of crime or victim, witness, or party in legal proceedings;
• the impact of removal on family in the United States, such as loss of provider or caregiver;
• whether the noncitizen may be eligible for humanitarian protection or other immigration relief;
• military or other public service of the noncitizen or their immediate family;
• time since an offense and evidence of rehabilitation;
• conviction was vacated or expunged.
That list, Mayorkas said, was “not exhaustive.”
Mayorkas and his boss, Joe Biden, have been dumping illegals — some diseased, some dangerous criminals — all across the United States.
H/T: Breitbart
