Joe Biden’s administration declared that then-Vice President Kamala Harris was the “border czar.”
Officials explained what that really meant was that her work to secure the nation’s border and crack down on illegal aliens entering essentially would be non-existent, but she would attack the “root causes” of the migration patterns coming out of Central and South America.
That pricey plan, which some characterized as sending enough money to Central America to make it just like America, succeeded only in doubling the number of illegal aliens arriving, a new report now concedes.
It is Judicial Watch that explained, “The costly failures of the Biden administration’s senseless plan to curb ‘irregular migration’ from Central America by sending the region enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars have been well documented but recently published figures show the problem was much worse than reported with a bigger increase in illegal aliens from those countries than previously imagined.”
The report confirmed, “As the American cash flowed south in an ill-fated effort to deter migration by making life better at home the number of illegal aliens from the targeted region doubled from 2.05 million in 2019 to 4.3 million by the time Biden left the White House.”
The report cited government figure obtained by the Migration Policy Institute.
“Thanks to Biden’s open border policies the illegal immigration population in the United States reached a new peak of 15.8 million as of mid-2024 after holding steady at around 11 million throughout the 2010s,” the report said.
“This increase was driven largely by record border arrivals and expanded Biden-era humanitarian parole programs,” MPI confirmed. “As the size of the unauthorized immigrant population has increased since 2019, the share of immigrants who are from Central and South America has surged while the Mexican share has shrunk significantly.”
Biden policies also drove big increases in illegal immigration, the report noted.
It’s because Biden “allowed most migrants who reached American soil to remain inside the country pending the outcome of removal proceedings in the nation’s severely backlogged immigration courts.”
MPI found, “Growth was further driven by the creation of new humanitarian parole programs that allowed legal entry and temporary stay for migrants from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, as well as those from all around the world who reached northern Mexico and made appointments via the CBP One app to be screened for entry.”
Further, many others “overstayed their temporary visa,” the report said, just like many of the 9/11 terrorists.
“It was an immigration free for all that shattered records and infested communities throughout the U.S. with criminal aliens that the Trump administration is rounding up in federal operations across the country,” the report warned.
“Many came from Central America even as the Biden administration kept sending the region money to curb the flow under a special program run by Vice President Kamala Harris. It was known as ‘Root Causes Strategy’ and the administration committed a whopping $4 billion to fund it.”
Its ideology involved spending enough cash in places like El Salvador Guatemala and Hondurs to make them more attractive than the U.S. in which to live.
Federal statistics confirm Harris’ work “did not deter migrants from the three countries.”
For example, during that time period, the illegal Honduran population expanded from 506,000 to 1,349,000.
