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The World Continues To Flock To Our ‘Porous’ Southern Border

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  • Lax border policies across the globe and in the U.S. continue to contribute to large influxes of migrants from countries other than Central America,
  • Border Patrol Union officials in Texas and Arizona say they’re seeing migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, countries in Africa, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkey, among other nations.
  • Title 42, a public health order, will end May 23 and border officials are expecting unprecedented surges in migration across the southern border.

Border authorities are seeing a continued flow of migrants crossing into the U.S. that are from countries beyond Central America ahead of an expected surge when Title 42 ends.

Title 42, the Trump era order, which has resulted in the expulsion of over 1.7 million migrants, will end May 23, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Friday.

Over 32,000 Cubans were arrested in March, doubling the number taken in custody in February, according to unreleased Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data reported by The Washington Post.

Cubans are coming mainly through Nicaragua, which lifted visa requirements for Cubans in November, BBC Mundo reported. After crossing into the U.S. they’re released under humanitarian parole, according to Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin.

“The visa-free air route to Managua and then the overland journey through Central America and Mexico to the southern border replaces the dangerous sea routes Cubans typically took to South America,” Center for Immigration Studies fellow and former head of counterterrorism intelligence for the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Todd Bensman wrote.

In Texas’ Del Rio border sector, Border Patrol saw around 41,000 migrants cross in March, of which around 20,000 were Venezuelan, Cuban, or Nicaraguan, the sector’s National Border Patrol Council (NPBC) President Jon Anfinsen told Republican lawmakers Monday.

“We’re seeing people here in Del Rio from across the globe, West, North Africa, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, South Asia, everywhere, and they’re all coming to the Texas border in droves, along with Yuma, Arizona.”

Border Patrol catches mostly Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans in the Rio Grande Valley sector, the sector’s NPBC President Chris Cabrera told the Republican lawmakers. (RELATED: Texas Gov Abbott Pledges To Give Biden A Taste Of His Own Medicine On Illegal Immigration)

“In the Rio Grande Valley, I believe we’re 72% other than Mexican, so it’s not just regular folks crossing … it’s people coming from all over the globe. Recently, we started to see an uptick in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkey. So, we don’t know how many is getting away and once this thing opens up, we’re already under water,” Cabrera said.

Border agents are concerned by the influx and its possible implications for U.S. national security as they continue to see migrants from areas of the world with terrorism ties, NPBC President Brandon Judd told the lawmakers.

“I would go as far as saying we’re not apprehending terrorists because the organizations are going to be very careful to ensure that an actual terrorist is not apprehended,” Judd said. “And as easy as it is to get across our borders, as porous as our borders are, they’re going to be very effective at ensuring that if people that are actual terrorists are not apprehended, So, it’s that old saying: if a tree falls in the forest and nobody’s around, does it make a sound? Same thing with this situation.”

“Yes, we have apprehended about 34 people, from my understanding, whose names match names on the terrorist watchlist, we just don’t know if they were the actual terrorist,” Judd added.

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