Daniel Bermudez’s family had fled Venezuela and was headed to the U.S. to seek asylum when the freight train they were riding through Mexico was stopped by immigration officials.
His wife tried to explain that her family had permission to go to the U.S. Instead, they flew her to Mexico’s southern border as part of a surge of enforcement actions that U.S. officials say have contributed to a sharp drop in illegal border crossings.
In addition to forcing migrants from trains, Mexico also resumed flying and busing them to the southern part of the country and started flying some home to Venezuela.
Even if temporary, the decrease in illegal crossings is welcome news for the White House. President Joe Biden’s administration is locked in talks with Senate negotiators over restricting asylum and $110 billion in aid for Ukraine and Israel hangs in the balance.
So we’re seeing a drop in illegal border crossings, but the reason a few clowns are giving for dropping Biden from the ballots are illegal border crossings.
Is that accurate?
Reporting from Christmas Eve 2023.
Edit to add September news characterizing monthly and year comparison.
Adding: based on what I’m seeing, I think this downtick is new. Either way, I doubt the politicians are going to let that slow their roll on removing Biden. I expect their attempts to fail, but that whole ISL idea has adherents still.
I’d rather not live in interesting times, but here we are.