Weaponized immigration has come to America and is bringing low-skilled illegal aliens to the labor market. Since July 2018, the economy has created zero jobs for American-born workers.
Kelly Greenhill, a senior research scholar at the MIT Center for International Studies and author of Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy, recently wrote an analysis concluding that the United States has been a frequent weaponized immigration target dating back as long ago as President Dwight Eisenhower’s administration and through President George W. Bush’s eight years in the early 21st century.
Greenhill blamed Western governments — Europe is also a migrant warfare target — that don’t understand how engineering the movement of foreign nationals across international borders exploits political divisions within the targeted countries.
Unless policymakers confront the forces that enable weaponized migration, “it is unlikely to go away anytime soon,” she concluded.
Since 1951, Greenhill has identified 81 worldwide cases, all of which achieved their weaponized immigration objectives.
The targeted countries were disproportionately liberal democracies whose lax attitudes toward the threat determined the degree of success the subversive mission achieved.
President Joe Biden’s administration is a perfect fit for nations that want to implement weaponized migration to undermine the sovereign United States.
Not only has Biden demonstrated enthusiasm for the open border policy that he created and encouraged, but his administration has also promoted — at every turn — globalism at the expense of nationalism.
Nicaragua is a major weaponized immigration enabler.
Motivated by his deep hatred of the United States, President Daniel Ortega loosened visa requirements for Cubans in 2021, and then expanded his list to include Haiti, other Latin American countries and eventually several Asian and African nations that include Indians, Uzbekistanis, and nationals from Mauritania and Senegal.
Travelers going through Nicaragua avoided the dangerous trek through the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama, and Ortega could not only subvert America, but he could also make big money at the same time.
Nicaragua hired a private company to organize contracts with charter flight companies across Asia, Europe and Africa. The flights pay landing fees, and travelers are assessed airport taxes that range from $100 to $200 per person.
Transporting migrants from their home countries to Nicaragua is a multimillion-dollar business.
With weaponized migrants arriving at the U.S. border faster than officials could detain them, the Homeland Security Department decided to process them into the United States rather than deport them.
The strategy culminated in the May 2023 rule, “The Circumvention of Lawful Pathways Final Rule.”
The title summarizes the objective: for illegal immigrants, the Homeland Security Department created, without congressional approval, an entirely new set of administratively sanctioned methods of being processed into the United States.
The department moved “to expand safe and orderly pathways for migrants to lawfully enter the United States.” Included are “establishing country-specific and other available processes to seek parole for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit; expanding opportunities to enter for seasonal employment; putting in place a mechanism for migrants to schedule a time and place to arrive in a safe, orderly, and lawful manner at ports of entry via use of the CBP One mobile app; and expanding refugee processing in the Western Hemisphere.”
An earlier department document, the “Los Angeles Declaration of Migration and Protection,” which 21 countries endorsed in 2022, resulted in the United States committing to resettle 20,000 so-called refugees from Central America during the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years.
In fiscal year 2022, the federal government issued more than 19,000 H-2B visas to Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans, a 94% increase from the previous fiscal year.
Not surprisingly the 21 endorsing countries were overwhelmingly potential migrant-sending countries: Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti, Honduras and other economically failing nations.
As part of making their case to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the House Homeland Security Committee’s Republicans identified more than a dozen parole programs that, they argue, Mayorkas illegally created to circumvent congressionally established immigration laws.
Texas, Florida and other states have sued over many of the Homeland Security Department programs that have allowed illegal border crossers to remain in the United States, concurring with the committee’s chairman, Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., who led the impeachment charge.
Always a long shot in the Senate, the House has not yet sent impeachment articles to the upper chamber.
Even though the Senate outcome is predetermined in the Democratic-controlled chamber, enforcement-minded, patriotic Americans will be denied the cold comfort of a Mayorkas impeachment trial.
Worse, the consequences of his brazen disregard for enforcement and protecting the homeland will continue to play out until January, or until Mayorkas’ department releases about 2 million more illegal aliens into the interior, bringing the total to well over 10 million during his term as secretary.