The costly failures of the Biden administration’s senseless plan to curb “irregular migration” from Central America by sending the region enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars have been well documented but recently published figures show the problem was much worse than reported with a bigger increase in illegal aliens from those countries than previously imagined. As the American cash flowed south in an ill-fated effort to deter migration by making life better at home the number of illegal aliens from the targeted region doubled from 2.05 million in 2019 to 4.3 million by the time Biden left the White House, according to government figures cited in a new probe. The audit was conducted by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), which claims to be nonpartisan but is funded by leftists such as George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF), the Gates Foundation and other liberal entities like Maine Equal Justice.
Thanks to Biden’s open border policies the illegal immigration population in the United States reached a new peak of 15.8 million as of mid-2024 after holding steady at around 11 million throughout the 2010s, the MPI writes in its report. “This increase was driven largely by record border arrivals and expanded Biden-era humanitarian parole programs,” the MPI writes. The Washington D.C.-based group describes itself as a leading, evidence-based institution in the field of migration policy and a source of authoritative research. In this case, the nonprofit used the most recently available data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). “As the size of the unauthorized immigrant population has increased since 2019, the share of immigrants who are from Central and South America has surged while the Mexican share has shrunk significantly,” the MPI states, adding that the Central American share of the unauthorized immigrant population increased to 27 % under Biden up from 15% in 2010 as Mexico for the first time fell below 50%.
The big increases in illegal immigrants were also driven by policies implemented under the Biden administration that allowed most migrants who reached American soil to remain inside the country pending the outcome of removal proceedings in the nation’s severely backlogged immigration courts. “Growth was further driven by the creation of new humanitarian parole programs that allowed legal entry and temporary stay for migrants from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, as well as those from all around the world who reached northern Mexico and made appointments via the CBP One app to be screened for entry,” the report states. Additionally, the MPI found that “sizable numbers of Europeans and others” overstayed their temporary visa yet remined in the U.S. like most of the 9/11 terrorists. It was an immigration free for all that shattered records and infested communities throughout the U.S. with criminal aliens that the Trump administration is rounding up in federal operations across the country.
Many came from Central America even as the Biden administration kept sending the region money to curb the flow under a special program run by Vice President Kamala Harris. It was known as “Root Causes Strategy” and the administration committed a whopping $4 billion to fund it. The ludicrous idea behind the initiative was that it would improve life enough to deter citizens in the impoverished nations known as the northern triangle— El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—from coming to the U.S. illegally. The Biden administration laughably claimed the strategy was successful and that it had far-reaching impacts throughout the region by creating jobs, supporting education, enhancing food security and combatting human smuggling. Figures released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) however, have consistently revealed that the former vice president’s Central American experiment did not deter migrants from the three countries. The MPI report not only confirms this but also exposes that the multi-billion-dollar program was an even bigger failure than previously imagined. In the period examined, 2019 to 2024, the illegal Honduran population expanded from 506,000 to 1,349,000 while the Guatemalan population went from 698,000 to 1,525,000 and the Salvadoran population went from 733,000 to 920,000.
