DHS orders border agents to give Haitians, Africans, Russians, Armenians asylum via Mexico

October 21, 2016

West Chester, Iowa

To the Editor:

Throngs of Haitians, Africans, Russians, Armenians and Guatemalans are being admitted into the United States via the Mexican border with virtually no vetting for security or health risks. Overwhelmed and understaffed border agents are bombarded daily with an onslaught of immigrants from these countries and have been ordered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to process them as refugees with ?credible fear.?

One federal agent at the San Luis Port of Entry in Arizona described the situation as a ?mass crisis, like a Third-World country.? A DHS supervisor in the region stated the agency has issued an order from Washington, D.C., to all agents: ?No one is allowed to speak to the media.? The veteran DHS official said that to accommodate the influx, border agencies have suspended regular business and ?people that have actually gone through all the legal and proper ways to get documents are being shoved to the side.? One frustrated DHS official in the border region said she has never seen this type of rampant lawlessness throughout a lengthy career with the government. ?The elected government officials claim we are against terrorism, yet they are not doing anything to actually prevent terrorists from entering the country,? the DHS supervisor said.

Sources on the border say the overwhelming majority of migrants don?t appear to have been through any hardships. Instead many look in great physical shape, even muscular and fit, well groomed, and a lot of them have large amounts of cash. ?They?re showing up with a few hundred if not a few thousand dollars, new electronics, cellphones, tablets, etc.,? said a border patrol official in Arizona.

John Brinning

Retired U.S. Border Patrol