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On top of all the other loopholes in President Biden’s new rules supposedly limiting how many illegal migrants he’ll wave into the interior, The Post discovered one that runs 5,500 miles long: the entire Canadian border.
Per Post sources, “asylum seekers” there don’t count against the 1,500-a-day limit that Biden claims would trigger a larger shutdown.
And news site The Center Square reports that “18,644 foreign nationals were apprehended illegally entering the US at the northern border” in May.
Canadian-border-jumpers totaled 99,000 in the first eight months of Fiscal Year 2024; at that rate, the full-year total will exceed FY 2023’s 147,666, after FY 2022’s 92,737 and the 24,895 in fiscal 2021 (when Biden was just getting started).
All still a shadow of the flood over the Mexican border, but with plenty of room to grow, especially as word gets out.
Meanwhile, where the 1,500-a-day rule would seem to allow for just 45,000 southern-border wave-ins for June, it was actually more than 100,000, with no hint of the promised broader crackdown.
Maybe that’s explained by Biden’s other loopholes, such as simply using the CPB app, or coming from one of the several entire nations he’s exempted from immigration enforcement (without the slightest congressional action, of course.)
Not to mention the tens of thousands of “gotaways” who the Border Patrol sees but can’t stop each month, nor the unknown numbers the hopelessly-overburdened agents never even spot.
Nor the deadly fentanyl smuggled across at an ever-increasing rate.
Back to the Great White North: “Cartels are expanding their operations, flying people into Canada, which doesn’t require a visa, presenting an opportunity for terrorist watch-listed individuals to exploit. It’s much easier to get to Canada to come across,” warns former Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan.
Mexican nationals can fly visa-free to Canada from Mexico before illegally crossing into America.
And Canada’s Justin Trudeau lets “asylum seekers” use Canada as a transit point to the United States without the threat of arrest. Those who go to an official Canadian crossing are “returned” to the States to apply here.
The only thing our president has really achieved to slow the tide is to convince Mexico to get a bit tougher on illegal migrants crossing that country on the way to the US border — and that likely will only last until Americans vote in November.
Biden’s pretense of getting tough is as phony as his insistence that he’s still fit for office.