{"id":230803,"date":"2021-03-31T07:40:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=230803"},"modified":"2021-04-01T06:09:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T06:09:15","slug":"escalating-crisis-on-u-s-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=230803","title":{"rendered":"Escalating Crisis on U.S. Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Introduction \u2013 March 30, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h4>President Biden, or at least those who tell the senile figurehead what to sign, effectively triggered this crisis when <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-biden-immigration-idUSKBN29P12L\">half-a-dozen executive orders were signed in January<\/a><\/span>.<\/h4>\n<h4>Despite warnings of the consequences, Biden&#8217;s signature effectively swept away immigration barriers that had been in place since the Trump administration.<\/h4>\n<h4>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.<\/h4>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lindsey Graham accuses the White House of &#8216;a giant cover-up&#8217; of crisis at the border while veteran Border Agent calls the situation &#8216;completely out of control&#8217;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lindsey Graham appeared on Fox on Monday night to talk about his border visit\u00a0 on Friday with other senators\u00a0 Graham accused the Biden team of a &#8216;giant cover-up&#8217; of &#8216;massive system failure&#8217; and said there were too many &#8216;incentives&#8217; for illegally crossing the border\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Graham spoke after retired Border Patrol agent Jeffrey\u00a0Self said it was &#8216;out of control&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Harriet Alexander \u2013 Daily Mail March 30, 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration is staging &#8216;a giant cover-up&#8217; on the U.S.-Mexico border to hide &#8216;massive system failure&#8217;, Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/lindsey-graham\/index.html\"><strong>Lindsey Graham<\/strong><\/a> has claimed, as a veteran Border Patrol commander said the situation was &#8216;completely out of control&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Graham, a senator for South Carolina, told Sean Hannity on Monday night about his trip to the border on Friday, accompanied by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/texas\/index.html\"><strong>Texas<\/strong><\/a> senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/ted_cruz\/index.html\"><strong>Ted Cruz<\/strong><\/a> and John Cornyn, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Graham told Hannity he witnessed &#8216;a giant cover-up&#8217; of the crisis at the border, adding that he expected to see 150,000 people a month crossing illegally before long.<\/p>\n<p>Senators were told they were not allowed to film the children, leading Cruz to tweet: &#8216;How far is Joe Biden going to stop the American people from seeing inside the Donna CBP facility?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz added: &#8216;Biden sent a political operative from DC to block our cameras and even threatened another senator to obstruct legitimate congressional oversight.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In a clip filmed by Cruz, a woman who works at the facility tells him: &#8216;This is not a zoo, sir, please don&#8217;t treat the people as such.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Graham, on Monday night, told Hannity he could &#8216;understand why the Biden administration don&#8217;t want the American people to know what&#8217;s going on.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;I saw massive system failure.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Graham said that Border Patrol agents told him, before Biden was inaugurated, that the Democrat was &#8216;going back to the old policy&#8217; and getting rid of Remain in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol officials say they are having to deal with an extraordinarily high 30-day average of 5,000 daily encounters with migrants.<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_230807\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/In-excess-of-5000-migrants-have-crossed-the-US-southern-border-every-day-over-the-last-few-weeks..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230807\" class=\"wp-image-230807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/In-excess-of-5000-migrants-have-crossed-the-US-southern-border-every-day-over-the-last-few-weeks..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/In-excess-of-5000-migrants-have-crossed-the-US-southern-border-every-day-over-the-last-few-weeks..jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/In-excess-of-5000-migrants-have-crossed-the-US-southern-border-every-day-over-the-last-few-weeks.-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-230807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In excess of 5000 migrants have crossed the US southern border every day over the last few weeks.. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 16,000 unaccompanied children were in government custody as of last week.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Others in families are expelled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9416669\/Lindsey-Graham-accuses-White-House-giant-coverup-crisis-border.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2021, US authorities reported more than 100,000 crossed the southern border, while March is on track for a 50 per cent increase. As Biden is accused of a \u2018giant cover-up\u2019 of the growing crisis that he helped instigate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":230806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230803"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230852,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230803\/revisions\/230852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}