{"id":54899,"date":"2023-05-14T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54899"},"modified":"2023-05-14T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T01:00:13","slug":"wheres-the-migrant-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54899","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the migrant surge?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hey &#8230; what happened to that surge of migrants everyone thought would pour into the country when a Trump-era restriction lifted?<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t occur! That&#8217;s according to the Biden administration and local police and government officials who expected far greater numbers of immigrants than arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I won&#8217;t seek to examine why that occurred. I merely will welcome the initial response and hope it stays relatively quiet on our southern border.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/05\/12\/texas-border-immigration-title-42-migrants\/\">Federal official: no \u201cmajor influx\u201d of migrants at border as Title 42 ended | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Title 42 lifted this week. It was imposed during the Trump administration while the nation was fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The government sought to keep infected migrants from entering the country and, of course, infecting others once they crossed the border.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has been declared effectively over. The Biden administration is seeking to comport with today&#8217;s reality.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that it is not a good situation along the border. We still have too many people seeking illegal entry. I shall stipulate once more, however, that the border is &#8220;not open.&#8221; We&#8217;re still rounding up illegal entrants daily and seeking to process them as humanely as possible.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; that surge? It didn&#8217;t occur. I&#8217;ll take that as a victory of sorts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey &#8230; what happened to that surge of migrants everyone thought would pour into the country when a Trump-era restriction lifted? It didn&#8217;t occur! That&#8217;s according to the Biden administration and local police and government officials who expected far greater numbers of immigrants than arrived. Well, I won&#8217;t seek to examine why that occurred. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where&#8217;s the migrant surge?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2240,2245,10185],"class_list":["post-54899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-title-42"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54900,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54899\/revisions\/54900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}