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Video Report: Immigration Disconnect: U.S. Woos Middle Easterners and “Extra-Continental” Migrants While Mexico Blocks Them

January 30, 2020 by Todd Bensman

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America's Other Southern Border: Guatemala-Mexico

  • The Trump-Defeat-Gamble: U.S.-Bound Migrants in Mexico Calculating a Trump Electoral Defeat
  • Dispatches from America’s Other Southern Border: Guatemala-Mexico
  • Video: Why the 2020 Caravans Threaten the Fragile Success of Trump’s Border Policies
  • Video Report: Immigration Disconnect: U.S. Woos Middle Easterners and “Extra-Continental” Migrants While Mexico Blocks Them
  • Why 40,000 Migrants a Month Still Reach the U.S. Border: ‘Polleros’ Bypassing Mexican National Guard
  • U.S. Lays Out Welcome Mat for Middle Eastern and “Extra-Continental” Migrants While Mexico Blocks Them: An Immigration Policy Disconnect
  • House Envy: The Unacknowledged Real Motivation Behind Guatemala’s Mass Migration to the American Border
  • On The Green Line, U.S. Border Patrol union’s radio podcast

By Todd Bensman as published January 29, 2020 by the Center for Immigration Studies

Officials high and low say that extra-continental migrants from the Middle East and everywhere else are exempt from the stew of new policies President Donald Trump has implemented mainly to deter Central Americans.

Senior and lower-ranking DHS officials confirm that President Trump’s much-credited “Wait in Mexico” and “Safe Third Country” policies, requiring push-backs from the American border to Mexico and other countries, are not applied to extra-continental migrants.

One early 2019, phasing-out and legally contested policy called “metering,” by which a few extra-continentals at a time last year were let over from Mexican camps, did delay some entries, to keep things orderly during the migration crisis. But are extra-continentals being pushed back to Mexico or other countries to claim asylum as a deterrent, as are Central Americans?

“Nope,” one U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services officer in a border asylum office answered when I asked. “We wave ‘em all through, every last one of them.”

A senior DHS policy official not authorized to speak on record confirmed the broad Trump policy exemption for extra-continentals.

Failing to apply push-back policies to extra-continentals presents a profound missed opportunity for the United States to use new immigration-control tools to reduce risks that some of these migrants might be deployed terrorists, unreformed war criminals, or violent militia fighters with blood on their hands and predisposed to victimizing American citizens. 

View the full video report below:

Series Navigation<< Video: Why the 2020 Caravans Threaten the Fragile Success of Trump’s Border PoliciesWhy 40,000 Migrants a Month Still Reach the U.S. Border: ‘Polleros’ Bypassing Mexican National Guard >>

Filed Under: Foreign Correspondence, Securing America's Borders

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