Joe’s hands all over tragedy

Inhumane perils of trek

THE Biden administration claims its border policies are creating “a safe, orderly and humane immigration system.”

In fact, they’ve created a humanitarian disaster.

Vice President Kamala Harris can say “Do not come” until she’s out of breath, but people will keep making the dangerous trek to the US border so long as there are good odds of being released into the country by the Border Patrol.

And the odds are really good — since President Biden’s inauguration, his administration has taken into custody and then released some 3 million illegal aliens.

And that’s not counting the million and a half (or more) who weren’t caught but who know they’re home free because the White House has stopped most immigration enforcement inside the country, too.

But isn’t stopping all that nasty law enforcement “humane?” No, because Biden’s catch-andrelease policies are enticing millions to undertake risky journeys that frequently result in injury or death.

One of the most perilous stretches of the long road to the US border is the Darien Gap in Panama. It’s a “gap” because it’s about 60 miles of roadless jungle that illegal immigrants from the Caribbean, South America, Africa and beyond have to walk through on their way north.

The nonprofit group Doctors Without Borders

recently reported that “Sexual violence in the Darien Gap is increasing,” with stories of “rape tents” and victims as young at 11 years old.

The mayor of a town in the area said people routinely die trying to cross the jungle, succumbing to disease or being washed away by rushing rivers. Many others are robbed, sometimes by bandits from his own tribe, even as the ceaseless flow of migrants (half a million just this year) trashes the tribe’s home territory.

Mexico violence

And the inhumanity doesn’t end when the survivors emerge from the jungle. There are 2,000 more miles of kidnappers, robbers and rapists to pass through.

Doctors Without Borders reported in early 2017 on the consequences of Obama’s lax policies in encouraging illegal immigration.

It reported that twothirds of foreigners crossing through Mexico reported being victims of violence, including one-third of women who said they’d been sexually abused. And then when migrants get to Mexico’s northern border towns they have to contend with both the local smuggling gangs and the larger drug cartels that divide the border region into separate zones of control. Reuters has reported that rapes of migrants this year in the Mexican cities across the Rio Grande from South Texas are the highest ever recorded.

The UN’s International Organization for Migration reports that the US-Mexico border is the “world’s deadliest migration land route,” with nearly 700 documented deaths last year.

Before the Biden administration, the Border Patrol rescued 4,000 to 5,000 illegal aliens a year on the border, from heat stroke, drowning and other perils. That already seems like a lot. But once Biden’s “humane” border policies kicked in, the number leapt to nearly 13,000 in FY 2021, then 22,000 in 2022 and more than 37,000 in FY 2023, which ended in September.

Did the sun get hotter, or the Rio Grande deeper? No. What happened is that as evermore people abroad have been lured to take their chances at the border, ever-more of them have fallen victim to the perils of the journey.

The president, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and others setting immigration policy share the blame for every rape in the Darien Gap, every kidnapping by a cartel in Mexico, every family washed away in the Rio Grande.

“Safe, orderly and humane”? Hardly.