The only surprising thing about this is that someone recorded it, and its receiving significant coverage. As of mid-February, there had already been more than 1,500 publicly reported crimes against migrants expelled to homelessness & destitution in Mexico. https://twitter.com/ksieff/status/1380697948623884292

More than 1/3 of these crimes included kidnappings, often with rape and sexual assault. It's often mere chance that they ever get recorded anywhere. Mexican and U.S. authorities not only do nothing about crimes against migrants in Mexico, they often directly participate in them.

Their plight in Mexico was so well-known that Biden promised to end it, not just in campaign documents but repeatedly on the campaign trail and even in his national debate with Trump, guaranteeing that he wouldn't send any more asylum seeking families to "squalor" in Mexico.

Last month, Biden explicitly rejected that promise stating, "They should all be going back. The only people we’re not going to let sitting there on the other side of the Rio Grande by themselves with no help are [unaccompanied] children."

At his direction, the Biden Border Patrol has expelled to Mexico more than 91,000 non-Mexican asylum seekers since just January 20, including 25,000 parents with children. This is already more than the Trump Border Patrol, and next month will be even worse....

The Biden administration has traded vaccines with Mexico in exchange for an implicit promise to accept back even more asylum-seeking families, *specifically* targeting those with very young children under the age of 7.

Families are well-aware of the risks of living homeless in Matamoros, Juarez, Tijuana, and other Mexican border towns. Criminals know that migrants have family in the US who can be extorted, and many parents are preemptively sending their children north alone...

...knowing that the Biden Border Patrol will let the child seek asylum but 1) only if they come without their parents and 2) only if they cross illegally. The Biden officers at legal crossing points with Mexico have deemed seeking safety from persecution "non-essential" travel

Adult siblings or grandparents will often accompany children, but Border Patrol separates them from the children and expels them, keeping the children in inhumane conditions alone in border jails for weeks before sending them onto government-run shelters

I have documented how the share of migrant children in border jails without their parents exploded after the Trump-Biden expulsion policies came into effect, increasing to a share higher than at the height of Trump's official "family separation policy."

Still, Biden has treated the all-time record number of "unaccompanied" children as an act of God (like the Hurricanes that devastated Guatemala and Honduras late last year). Instead, it is an act of government, a policy choice to inflict suffering on children.

Nothing in U.S. law requires this. Just the opposite: 8 USC 1158(a)(1) explicitly promises that any person on U.S. soil can apply for asylum, and 8 USC 1225(b)(1)(A)(ii) forbids removing them without screening for fear of their return.

Yet the gov't has asserted the authority to overturn U.S. asylum law by declaring asylum seekers a threat to public health. It's illegal. But set that aside and the facts that migrants are now all being tested, testing positive at a lower rate than Americans, and quarantining...

The reality is that the expelled asylum seekers constitute less than 1% of all the people crossing from Mexico. The Ted Cruz family can vacation in Cancun. Fruit pickers and Avacado truckers cross daily by the tens of thousands. But not people seeking safety here...

10-year-olds whose moms are killed or kidnapped, 15-year-old girls fleeing rapists and abusers, political dissidents facing torture, aren't "essential" travelers. This pandemic is a pitiful excuse for doing what the border bureaucrats have wanted to do for decades: ban asylum.

...even if it means participating in horrible crimes against desperate people who (not that we should factor into this at all) would also make our country stronger and better.

And just so you remember: on April 15, you'll be helping pay for all of it.