As one would expect, we are all being told that the people we are making a mad dash to cross the US/Mexico border are all from countries like Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela and that they all have been displaced by natural disasters and political strife. The truth is that many of the people who are pouring in actually took a plane to travel the majority of their journey. Mark Krikorian of the National Review came on the Los Angeles based John and Ken Show to talk about his recent article called They Heard It through the Grapevine: Illegals Are Coming from All Over. In the piece Krikorian reveals that 30% of the immigrants crossing the border come from 130 countries all over the globe.
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Here is an except from the piece on National Review:
The border crisis continues, with the total number of illegal immigrants encountered at the border in April at a 21-year high for that month, though up just 3 percent from March. But families (adults traveling with minors) from countries other than the usual Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador made up 30 percent of all illegal-alien families apprehended in April, up a whopping 34 percent from the previous month.
The New York Times reports that they’re coming not only from farther afield in Latin America — Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil — but also from India and the Middle East. The reporter quotes the director of a shelter in Tucson that helps illegal immigrants after they’ve been released into the U.S. by the Border Patrol as saying, “We never worked with such large numbers with this diversity,” including speakers of Arabic, Haitian Creole, Hindi, and Portuguese.
This being the New York Times, the story is framed as being about “pandemic refugees,” which is not a thing, because fleeing “unimaginable levels of illness and death and decimated economies and livelihoods” doesn’t make you eligible for the line-cutting exemption from immigration limits that is asylum.
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