News that the first big wave of guests at Mayor Eric Adams’ “Tentz-Carlton” are from Senegal exposes the utter madness of President Joe Biden’s open-border policy: As word spreads, “asylum seekers” from across the globe will keep on coming, until this president, or his successor, finally bends.
We noted weeks ago that the mix of illegal migrants had grown beyond the waves from Mexico and the Northern Triangle nations. More than 730,000 migrants last fiscal year alone from the rest of the world crossed our border. While Biden has (until Election Day, anyway) shut the doors to Venezuelans, that leaves scores of nations where heading to America seems like an excellent idea.
And the idea that legitimate claims for asylum have a thing to do with it is a complete joke. All these 110-plus Senegalese, per the imam who’d hosted them, “came across the southern border,” leaving home in West Africa after they “heard the border was open.” More: “Any time I ask them, all they are talking about is, ‘Border is open,’ ‘Border is open.’ ”
So the Biden effort to address “root causes” in the Northern Triangle has zero chance to dent the tide, ever.
The mass migrations have vanishingly little to do with the “root causes” of political instability and violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that Biden & Co. harp on about. Most of them, understandably enough, just want a better life in the greatest nation in the world — and are delighted that our president gave the OK for them to jump the line ahead of everyone seeking legal immigration.
As one of the new New Yorkers from Senegal happily put it, “We can stay as long as we want.”
It’s a replay of Europe’s 2015 migrant crisis, when Germany’s Angela Merkel opened the door, nominally to allow in refugees from the Syrian Civil War — and the tide rapidly grew to include migrants from dozens of nations. After enough political backlash, the European Union eventually found a way to slam the door back shut, though the aftermath continues to roil politics from Italy to Sweden.
It’s another reason Nov. 8 is sure to bring a “red wave” and Republican control of Congress, followed by hearings and likely new laws to stop the madness at borders Team Biden keeps insisting are “secure.”