Bait and switch at the border

https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2021/03/14/game-changer-ngos-criticize-biden-flies-illegal-migrants-across-texas-dumps-el-paso/

The crisis on the southern border has gotten so bad that the Biden administration is now flying illegal migrants across Texas to El Paso. Once there, they are processed and dumped back into Mexico. Overcrowding of detention centers and Title 42 are the reasons cited for the change in how Biden originally decided to handle the crisis.

Title 42 of the United States Code Section 265 allows CBP to quickly expel illegal migrants after they are taken into custody. President Trump ordered Title 42 to be in effect on March 21, 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic became a factor in illegal immigration. Expulsions under Title 42 are not based on immigration status. They are tracked separately from immigration enforcement actions. Title 42 specifically deals with the issue of public health. It is meant to prevent spreading COVID-19 into border facilities and further into the United States. The Biden administration has been criticized for using catch and release for illegal migrants detained by CBP. The migrants being bussed out of border towns are being found to be COVID-19 positive yet allowed to travel out of Texas and into other states.

The move has flummoxed a Mexican state official and U.S. nonprofit organizations who had prepared shelters in this city for the overflow.

“This is a game changer and very concerning,” said Ruben Garcia, executive director and founder of Annunciation House, an NGO, which had prepared to receive the migrants flown in twice a day. He said the number of migrants arriving is “not even close to what we were told would be arriving.”

Marisa Limon Garza, deputy director of Hope Border Institute in El Paso. said she met a family of four who said they had just been flown from the Rio Grande Valley on Thursday and then expelled into Juárez.

“I don’t understand their logic; I can’t square it and I don’t understand the rationale, or how the rules are being applied to some people and not to others,” Limon Garza said. “This doesn’t make sense to me.”

Rinos join dems in Georgia

https://www.newsweek.com/corporate-heavyweights-come-out-against-voting-restriction-measures-georgia-gop-1576023?piano_t=1

Large corporations, including Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines and Aflac, came out Sunday to stand against voting restrictions measures by Georgia's Republican Party.

"Voting is a foundational right in America, and we will continue to work to advance voting rights and access in Georgia and across the country," Coca-Cola said in a statement to CNBC. "We support efforts by the Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce to help facilitate a balanced approach to the election bills that have been introduced in the Georgia Legislature this session."

"The ultimate goal should be fair, secure elections where access to voting is broad-based and inclusive," Coca-Cola's statement continued.

Aflac shared Coca-Cola's sentiments, saying "the right to vote in national, state and local elections is the cornerstone of democracy."

The statements from the corporations came after civil rights and activist groups— including Black Voters Matter, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, and the Georgia NAACP—called on major Georgia-based corporations on Friday to publicly speak out against voting restrictions proposed by the state's GOP and stop donating money to the Republican legislators sponsoring the bills.

Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, a Republican, criticized these GOP-led efforts in his state and across the U.S. during a Sunday appearance on NBC News' Meet the Press.