Introduction – March 30, 2021

President Biden, or at least those who tell the senile figurehead what to sign, effectively triggered this crisis when half-a-dozen executive orders were signed in January.

Despite warnings of the consequences, Biden’s signature effectively swept away immigration barriers that had been in place since the Trump administration.

This was seen as the green light that many would-be migrants south of the border had been waiting for. The Biden administration is no longer sending families back across the border using the COVID-19 emergency measure called Title 42. Instead, they are being held in crowded migrant holding facilities and thousands more are joining them everyday. Ed.

Lindsey Graham accuses the White House of ‘a giant cover-up’ of crisis at the border while veteran Border Agent calls the situation ‘completely out of control’

• Lindsey Graham appeared on Fox on Monday night to talk about his border visit  on Friday with other senators  Graham accused the Biden team of a ‘giant cover-up’ of ‘massive system failure’ and said there were too many ‘incentives’ for illegally crossing the border 
• Graham spoke after retired Border Patrol agent Jeffrey Self said it was ‘out of control’

 Harriet Alexander – Daily Mail March 30, 2021

The Biden administration is staging ‘a giant cover-up’ on the U.S.-Mexico border to hide ‘massive system failure’, Senator Lindsey Graham has claimed, as a veteran Border Patrol commander said the situation was ‘completely out of control’.

Graham, a senator for South Carolina, told Sean Hannity on Monday night about his trip to the border on Friday, accompanied by Texas senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, among others.

Graham told Hannity he witnessed ‘a giant cover-up’ of the crisis at the border, adding that he expected to see 150,000 people a month crossing illegally before long.

Senators were told they were not allowed to film the children, leading Cruz to tweet: ‘How far is Joe Biden going to stop the American people from seeing inside the Donna CBP facility?’

Cruz added: ‘Biden sent a political operative from DC to block our cameras and even threatened another senator to obstruct legitimate congressional oversight.’

In a clip filmed by Cruz, a woman who works at the facility tells him: ‘This is not a zoo, sir, please don’t treat the people as such.’

Graham, on Monday night, told Hannity he could ‘understand why the Biden administration don’t want the American people to know what’s going on.’

He added: ‘I saw massive system failure.’

Graham said that Border Patrol agents told him, before Biden was inaugurated, that the Democrat was ‘going back to the old policy’ and getting rid of Remain in Mexico.

Border Patrol officials say they are having to deal with an extraordinarily high 30-day average of 5,000 daily encounters with migrants.

In February 2021, US authorities reported more than 100,000 encounters on the southern border, while March is on track to report a 50 per cent increase over February, according to the Associated Press

Children traveling alone are allowed to remain in the U.S. to pursue asylum while nearly all single adults are expelled to Mexico under pandemic-era rules that deny them a chance to seek humanitarian protection.

In excess of 5000 migrants have crossed the US southern border every day over the last few weeks.. Click to enlarge

More than 16,000 unaccompanied children were in government custody as of last week.

Families with children younger than seven are being allowed to remain in the U.S. to pursue asylum, according to a Border Patrol official speaking to reporters Friday.

Others in families are expelled.

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