(John Ransom, Headline USA) As an outgrowth of the Biden administration’s sloppy control of the Mexican border, Ukrainians are now showing up at the US southern border, said CNN.
“Approximately at this moment in Tijuana, there are about 1,500 Ukrainians,” said Enrique Lucero, director of migrant affairs for the city, according to CNN.
“We had a surprising influx in the past four days, mainly because after the conflict we started seeing arrivals as of March 11,” added Lucero.
While it’s never a good time to see an influx of refugees showing up at the US southern border, it’s especially difficult now as Title 42, a Trump-era policy designed to keep people out of the country who had been in high COVID exposure countries, is being ended by the Biden administration, according to a statement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The “CDC Director has determined that an Order suspending the right to introduce migrants into the United States is no longer necessary” because of COVID, said the statement.
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But Democrats are split about the end of Title 42, especially those Democrats that represent border states like Arizona.
“This is the wrong decision,” said Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., according to The Hill.
“It’s unacceptable to end Title 42 without a plan and coordination in place to ensure a secure, orderly, and humane process at the border.”
The criticism was echoed by Arizona’s other Democrat senator, Kyrsten Sinema, and Democrat thorn-in-the-side, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who seems to always be criticizing controversial Biden decisions.
Ukrainian refugees present special perils when it comes to COVID, because the war has superseded the virus in Ukraine with no official records kept of COVID cases since about March 3, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University
Lucero told CNN that currently they’re processing between 100 to 200 Ukrainian refugees each day.
But that number might go up substantially.
“We’ve been told that about 500 migrants will arrive on these next flights, so it would increase to two thousand during the course of the day,” said Inna Levien, volunteer from Orange County who is leading a group trying to help Ukrainians, according to CNN.
