Biden’s DHS working with Mexico to manage illegal immigration.

Report Reveals Collusion Between Federal Border Agents and Mexican Authorities

Despite Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ repeated claims that the U.S.-Mexico border is closed, a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals that federal officials are managing, but not stopping, the chaos caused by illegal immigration. According to Todd Bensman’s latest dispatch from Matamoros, Mexico, there is a “striking level of collusion” taking place between federal border agents and Mexican authorities via an encrypted online chat room. This collusion is used to tell Mexico when to let migrants swim across the Rio Grande and unlawfully enter the United States.

The Coordinated Timing Setup

Large crowds of immigrants have formed on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, fully prepared to swim over well-worn crossing spots to Brownsville. However, they are seemingly held back by unarmed Mexican immigration officials. At some sort of signal from the Mexican immigration officers, a group of about 100-150 from the crowd would suddenly stand in unison and rush down the riverbank, past the immigration officers, and swim over to America. The Center for Immigration Studies asked several of the Mexican immigration officers what was going on and learned that President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has been coordinating these mass swims with Mexico’s immigration service, INM, at high levels on an encrypted Whatsapp channel.

The Americans on the other side would ask the Mexicans to hold back the migrants, not because such crossings are illegal and should be blocked and obstructed, but only until the Americans had finished processing the last batch into the country through Brownsville. Once the Americans felt they could take in more, they would message the Mexicans that “they are ready to receive them.” Then, senior officials would radio the on-ground immigration officers, all of whom are equipped with radios. Next, the officers signal to the waiting crowd to go forward and, once they figure enough are in the water, they cut off the rest and push and cajole them back into line until the Americans signal they’re ready again.

The Mexican officers said the Americans initiated this system in late April but could only guess at why – perhaps to better manage the processing of very high recent numbers of crossings. But the collaboration explains why Mexican immigration officers are stationed at the river at all, and raises many questions.

The Biden Administration’s Role

As Bensman noted, this apparently coordinated timing setup is similar to the “controlled-flow” systems used by countries such as Columbia, Panama, and Costa Rica “to facilitate mass illegal migration to the U.S. border rather than incur the expense and trouble of blocking it in those countries.” That is, the Biden administration is turning the United States’ southern border into just another pass-through point where the international boundary is not enforced and illegal immigrants can continue their unobstructed, though perilous, journey into the country.

Still, this system of “collusion” likely won’t help prevent the mayhem that’s predicted to begin on Thursday night when Title 42 officially expires at 11:59pm ET. Even Mayorkas couldn’t shine that reality when he spoke on Wednesday about Biden’s “plan” to deal with the end of the pandemic-era removal policy. Claiming to be “clear-eyed” about the “very difficult” challenges as Title 42 ends, Mayorkas warned of “large numbers of encounters at our southern border in the days and weeks after May 11” and pleaded for Americans to take “into account” the fact that “it will take time” for the results of Biden’s supposed plan to handle even more illegal immigrants “to be fully realized.”

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