Immigrants Flood The Border After Biden Signs Executive Orders

Sheriff Mark Dannels in Arizona is worried that President Biden’s recent executive orders on immigration are “hasty” and is asking the president to “stop this madness.”

The Cochise County Sheriff said that the “political theater that’s being played out is scary to all of us on the southwest border, sheriffs, police departments and our federal partners and every American should be standing up on this.”

Dannels pointed to statistics from 2019, noting that more than 1,000 gang members representing more than a dozen countries breached the southwest border that year. He added that thousands of children were being exploited by the cartels as a fraud and there were hundreds of assaults on federal agents.

“It goes back to show you how vulnerable our southwest border is to include every American in this country if we don’t have a secure border,” Dannels said.

In his first week in office, President Biden signed a number of executive orders, including the administration’s 100-day moratorium on deportations. Ahead of Biden’s inauguration a large migrant caravan had been making its way to America’s southern border.

The week before Biden was sworn-in as president, two groups of more than 3,000 Honduran migrants each pushed their way into Guatemala without registering as part of a larger caravan headed to the United States, the Associated Press reported. A third group entered Guatemala on Saturday. The migrants were hoping to reach Mexico, which is north of Guatemala, and eventually make their way to the United States border.

A second migrant caravan was poised to depart Honduras on Monday, days after security forces in Guatemala stopped the first caravan of the year during a series of violent clashes where asylum seekers were met with tear gas and batons, The Daily Mail reported last week.

“We’ve worked so well over the years and why we need a secure border is just common sense,” Dannels said.

Dannels pointed out that the 800 cameras distributed in the area have shown “double” the number of illegal immigrants entering the country since Biden became the Democratic nominee last year.

He noted that when Trump was president “We had a very positive, proactive relationship with President Trump at the table to work out community issues.”