The Texas governor's performative border politics are great for the cartels, good for his re-election efforts, and terrible for America, writes anoorani
Then, in March of 2020, as the country staggered through the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration utilized the CDC’s Title 42 public-health restrictions to effectively close the border to nearly anyone asking for protection. People seeking to apply for asylum were not processed and given a chance to make their case but apprehended and then expelled from the country. .
That was great for the cartels’ profits. Because once they realized there were no legal repercussions for people expelled under Title 42, they modified their business model and sold desperate migrants the opportunity to make multiple attempts to enter the U.S. The result was levels of recidivism that accounted for as much as 38% of apprehensions in some months. The average over the past two years has been 27%.
That makes apprehension numbers artificially high, because the numbers include repeat attempts. In fact, after Title 42 went into effect in March 2020, migrant encounters rose for 15 consecutive months. In the end, cartels are making money, migrants are put in dangerous situations, and enforcement resources are distracted from stopping the trafficking of drugs. Title 42 has failed to deter migrants from seeking asylum protections.
Sensing an opportunity for political gain, Abbott has spent the last 18 months offering a series of expensive, ineffective, gestures.
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