Perspectives: The Ongoing Migrant Surge at the Southern Border
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From the Center
As migrants surge over the border, America must respond with compassionAs the United States sees a sharp increase in immigration under President Joe Biden’s administration, the nation must respond from a place of principle — and Utah offers solid foundations from which to start.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assist as 4,200 children were being kept in poor, crowded conditions in Customs and Border Protection facilities, in cells meant for adults. Biden, who criticized former President Donald Trump for keeping “kids in cages,” is passing the buck to his predecessor...
From the Left
Migrants are heading north because Central America never recovered from last year’s hurricanesRepublicans are eager to decry a “Biden border crisis.” But the current wave of migration at the southern border is the result of a humanitarian crisis in Central America that has been years in the making.
Citizens of the “Northern Triangle” region — Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador — have long suffered from gang-related violence, frequent extortion, government corruption, and high levels of poverty. Over the past few months, though, another factor has added an additional push to make the dangerous journey north: continuing devastation from back-to-back hurricanes.
From the Right
Team Biden’s disgraceful border media blackoutThere’s only one thing not open on the southern border: media access to the operations of Customs and Border Protection. In a totalitarian effort at hiding the truth, the Biden administration has blocked the press.
Veteran photojournalist John Moore raised the alarm on Twitter over the weekend: “I respectfully ask US Customs and Border Protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations,” he wrote. “I have photographed CBP under Bush, Obama and Trump but now — zero access is granted to media. These long-lens images taken from the...
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