Under President Biden, the determination of who stays and who goes has become a lottery. The reason, according to the sector chief of the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol, is that some enter on days when Mexico cannot take them back.
," or human smugglers, onto U.S. soil, some willingly turning themselves into the Border Patrol and others hoping to make it through undetected.
"It's very difficult in my country," said Sara Judith, a Honduran woman who had been apprehended with her 10-year-old daughter."There's nothing." Border Patrol Agent Brandon Copp, whose beat includes hundreds of thousands of acres of private ranchlands across Kenedy and Brooks counties, worries that the rise in temperatures, combined with the 20-year high in overall border crossings, will mean more deaths in this area.
"As a Border Patrol agent, I never thought I would be going to mortuaries and doing identifications," Copp said. Just last week, he said, he had to remove the skin off the finger of a deceased migrant to run his fingerprint so the man's family could be notified about his death. "The Biden administration's retention of Title 42 and refusal to open the legal ports of entry is having the perverse effect of forcing desperate asylum-seekers fleeing danger to cross between the ports, which is to nobody's benefit," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the Immigrants' Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, who is a lead plaintiffs' lawyer in a lawsuit challenging the use of Title 42.
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