The southern border is “in chaos,” Christian evangelist Franklin Graham said on Thursday ahead of the official expiration of Title 42, which opens the door for a flood of illegal border crossers.
“And this administration is doing nothing except encouraging it,” he added. “Pray that our country will survive”:
Everyone agrees that our southern border is in chaos, and it’s not just people from Mexico and Central America pouring across, but from all around the world. And this administration is doing nothing except encouraging it. Pray that our country will survive.
— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) May 12, 2023
Graham’s remark came hours ahead of Title 42 — the Trump-era policy allowing the speedy removal of illegal aliens for the sake of public health — expiring on May 11.
As Breitbart News reported:
As the Trump administration expected, Title 42 has become an immensely effective border control to stem waves of illegal immigration that otherwise could have seen millions of illegal aliens released into the U.S. interior.
Since Trump imposed Title 42, the authority has ensured that close to three million illegal aliens have been quickly removed from the U.S. following their crossing the border.
A number of citizen journalists have captured images of the growing number of individuals crossing the border, which some have described as “nonstop” illegal crossings:
Up to 400,000 migrants could arrive at the U.S. border every month in the aftermath of Title 42’s expiration, according to estimates from President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Immigrants wait near the U.S.-Mexico border fence after crossing over from Mexico on May 09, 2023, in El Paso, Texas. A surge of immigrants is expected with the end of the U.S. government’s Covid-era Title 42 policy, which for the past three years has allowed for the quick expulsion of irregular migrants entering the country (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images).
“DHS Office of Immigration Statistics projects that encounters could average 11,000 to 13,000 per day after the lifting of the Title 42 public health order, absent additional policy changes,” a proposed federal rule finds.
A Fox News poll in May found 63 percent of voters indicating that they want Biden to keep Title 42 in place.
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