Global South wants to head north and Ceuta invasion was just the latest example

Back in August 2023, hundreds of foreign nationals rushed the in separate incidents at official crossing points in Brownsville and El Paso, Texas. DHS officers put up physical barriers and stopped traffic over the Gateway International Bridge. On the Mexican side, the military intervened to stop further mass attempts by aliens to enter the U.S. illegally.

For those who have already forgotten, we very recently had hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens pouring over our border every month. Why did they come in the millions from 2021-2024 and only a few hundred today? Policy choices. Former President Joe Biden and his Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas were lamentably successful at creating made-up "lawful pathways" and circumventing our laws to parole or release as many aliens into our country as possible. The effects will last decades.

We saw an echo of the Biden border recently in the Spanish city of , in North Africa. In July, more than 72,000 non-Spaniards bum-rushed the border while Morocco did little to stop them. The majority were Moroccans, who mostly went home within a few days. But 10,000 or more were from sub-Saharan Africa or claimed to be minors, or both.

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Spain is now stuck with processing them under Europes insanely soft asylum policies, which will likely result in many being taken to mainland Spain. The success of even a minority of these invaders to access Europe will encourage many more to try.

President Donald Trump ended Bidens open-borders policies. Since he took office, there have been zero "catch-and-release" cases at the border, the Department of Homeland Security says. Trump also ended Bidens reckless and illegal mass parole programs. Some aliens still sneak in without being caught, but far fewer now that the Border Patrol has the time and manpower to look for them and the mandate to detain them.

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Trumps prompt action stemmed the manmade disaster that allowed up to 10 million illegal aliens into our country with no vetting and little chance of qualifying for asylum. But Trump cant change the demand-side of the mass migration equation. The world still has plenty of poor, dysfunctional countries.

True, there have been some success stories. Elections across including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Peru have replaced leftist leaders with conservative ones, which augers well for security and prosperity in our hemisphere.

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In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has drastically reduced crime and improved the economy such that the country is desperate for workers. The U.S. taking out Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and replacing him w