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The Department of Homeland Security announced last week that its agents made a record amount of arrests at the southern border, which represented a 10 percent jump from April.
The department said agents arrested 22,656 individuals and about 25 percent were repeat offenders. The Wall Street Journal said these agents have been dealing with record numbers of illegal border crossings since COVID-19 travel restrictions have been eased.
The agency said border crossers were from countries like India, Russia, Turkey, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia, and Nicaragua. NBC News reported that countries like India and Russia are not so willing to take these migrants back, so most are allowed into the U.S. to “pursue their immigration claims.”
The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the dire economic realities in many of these countries that has led to the jump in border crossings. (See “AS FORECAST: ARRESTS AT U.S. BORDER HIT RECORD HIGH. IT WILL GET WORSE” “U.S. BORDER PATROL: CHILD BORDER CROSSINGS SPIKING” and “IMMIGRANT CHILDREN CRISIS AT U.S. BORDER.”)
Since the beginning of the 2022 fiscal year, border officials have recorded at least 1.5 million arrests. Rodney Scott, the former Border Patrol chief, said the Biden administration has not addressed what he sees as a growing national security crisis.
“There’s no effort to actually secure the border and to figure out who and what’s coming in when you create a chaotic situation like this, and they have created this through their policies,” Scott said, according to Fox News.
Chris Magnus, the CBP commissioner, said in a statement last week that “current restrictions at the U.S. border have not changed: single adults and families encountered at the Southwest Border will continue to be expelled, where appropriate, under Title 42.”
Title 42 was put in place by the Centers for Disease Control during the COVID-19 outbreak and empowers federal health authorities to prohibit migrants from entering the country if these agencies determined that these migrants could be infected with a contagious disease. The Biden administration has worked to overturn the policy.
Last month, a federal judge in Louisiana, District Judge Robert R. Summerhays, a Trump appointee, blocked the Biden administration from lifting a public health order. President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice appealed the decision.
Encounters of unaccompanied children along the southwest land border surged by 21 percent in May, totaling 14,699 encounters in the month compared with 12,180 in April.
In May, the average number of unaccompanied children in CBP custody was 692 per day, compared with an average of 479 per day in April.”
Central America is dealing with lost revenue due to COVID-19 restrictions, hikes in the energy and commodity markets, and surging inflation.
Vice President Kamala Harris last week announced an additional $1.9 billion investment in private firms in Central America to help the economy and to help slow the immigration out of these countries. About 40 percent of border crossers are from Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
Tony Payan, the director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University in Texas, told TheConveration.com that plans that were laid out at the recent “Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity” summit in Los Angeles will likely be ineffective.
“For now, no matter how well-intentioned the declarations may be, their words will fade away with little to no accomplishments,” he said.
TREND FORECAST: As economic conditions continue to deteriorate, the border crisis in the United States and across the globe will escalate. We maintain our forecast for the growth of anti-immigration, anti-tax, anti-vax, anti-establishment political parties.
These border crossings will continue to worsen as these countries face more economic hardships due to soaring inflation.
Food prices will remain high even after the Ukraine war is settled.
Ukraine’s productive capacity has been damaged for years to come; sanctions against Russia are likely to remain in place for some time after the shooting stops. Neither country will be able to restore exports to the larger world market for an indefinite period.
At the same time, extreme weather in the Americas is becoming the norm, making commodity crops such as wheat and soybeans unreliable.
It will take years for the world’s food market to reshape itself to meet the demands of emerging nations for enough food at affordable prices.
Meanwhile, more countries will default on, or demand to restructure, their debts at a time when developed nations have less money to bankroll bailouts by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
The result will be not only hunger in much of the troubled regions, but increasing political and social foment and instability.
As Gerald Celente has often said, “When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it.”
Our 2020 Top Trend “The New World Disorder 2.0” predicted millions to take to the streets in numbers never seen before in their fight against government control, corruption, income inequality, poverty, violence, and crime.