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up at the border and claims they need asylum to avoid persecution. All they have to do is


not flee the Border Patrol and fill out the proper pa- perwork before entering. And while the pre-


sumed political refugees would have to show up in


Democrat mayors in blue-


state strongholds blame the crisis on the high-profile re- location of migrants by bus and charter aircraft under the auspices of Republican Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida. Last September, the De-


Santis administration sent about 50 illegal migrants from Venezuela to the tony island of Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. A DeSantis spokesman


called it “an opportunity to seek greener pastures in a sanctuary jurisdiction.” Then in June, Florida sent 36 migrants to Sacramento,


California’s state capital and its sixth-largest city. Some an- alysts say DeSantis and Ab- bott are effectively compet- ing over which one will own the open border issue. But all politics aside, the


high-profile relocations from Texas and Florida are just an infinitesimal fraction of total migrant relocation to cities nationwide. “It has nothing to do with


[Texas Gov.] Greg Abbott put- ting a few people on buses,” Bensman says. “The immi- grants were pouring into those cities for two years before Ab- bott ever sent one bus.”


BIDEN GIVES GREEN LIGHT The Biden adminis- tration’s primary tool to keep the TV cam- eras from spotlighting the flow of humanity streaming across the border: a new policy that grants admission to anyone who shows


court and provide evidence that their claims of endanger- ment are true, the courts are so backed up that they’re re- ceiving trial dates in 2030 and even 2035. Immigration experts now


concede that there is virtu- ally no chance the more than 2 million migrants who have been released into the na- tion’s interior will ever face removal. So, while the administra-


tion is proudly touting that the border crisis has eased since the expiration of the Title 42 rapid-expulsion mea- sure on May 12, the reality is quite different. It’s just that instead of


climbing a fence or wading across the Rio Grande, illegal migrants are using the new CBP One mobile app to sched- ule an appointment, after which they’re given a manila envelope to hold their paper- work and ushered into the na- tion’s interior on a prolonged, if not permanent, basis. As GOP Sen. James Lank-


Immigration experts now concede that there is virtually no chance the more than 2 million migrants who have been released into the nation’s interior will ever face removal.


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