According to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), senior officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been communicating with Mexico’s immigration service on an encrypted WhatsApp channel, informing them of when it’s okay to send migrants across the Rio Grande River in Brownsville, Texas, a hotspot for illegal migration. Over the past few days, an estimated 3,000 migrants per day swam over to Brownsville from Mexico with no opposition on either side, according to the report. Observers noticed a pattern forming where “a group of about 100-150 from the crowd would suddenly stand in unison and rush down the riverbank, past the immigration officers, and swim over to America,” the report states. CIS asked several Mexican immigration officers what was happening, and was told that President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security was coordinating the “mass swims” with Mexico’s immigration service (INM). “We’re letting them know that there’s a group of people ready to cross,” an INM officer told CIS. American officials would ask Mexican officials to hold back migrants “not because such crossings are illegal and should be blocked and obstructed, but only until the Americans had finished processing the last batch into the country through Brownsville,” the report states. Once the U.S. side feels they can handle more migrants to process, they send a message to INM stating that “they are ready to receive them,” after which senior officials radio on-the-ground immigration officers. The report continues:The Biden administration has been secretly colluding with Mexican authorities to facilitate illegal migration using a “controlled-flow” system to bring migrants into America in violation of U.S. law.
Next, the officers signal to the waiting crowd to go forward and, once they figure enough are in the water, they cut off the rest and push and cajole them back into line until the Americans signal they’re ready again. The Mexican officers said the Americans initiated this system in late April but could only guess at why – perhaps to better manage the processing of very high recent numbers of crossings. But the collaboration explains why Mexican immigration officers are stationed at the river at all, and raises many questions. “Controlled-flow by the Biden administration’s DHS with Mexico also constitutes a highly unusual U.S. policy that demonstrates formal acquiescence to illegal immigration and an official willingness to accommodate mass illegal immigration rather than stopping, blocking, or deterring it, as required by law,” according to the report.
