New York Times: "Asylum-Seekers" Are Really Economic Migrants

 On September 25, the New York Times ran a story captioned "The back story of the migrant buses: Republican governors’ immigration stunts are actually helping some migrants".

• The article, in the form of an interview between the author (German Lopez) and a Times' staffer (Miriam Jordan, a national correspondent for the paper) likely reveals a lot more about those "Republican governors" and the migrants involved than it intended.
• In March, Border Patrol agents began releasing migrants apprehended entering illegally at the Southwest border into small Texas towns, including Uvalde (about 60 miles from the Rio Grande, population 15,312) and Carrizo Springs (50 miles inland from the U.S.-Mexico line, population 4,796).
• By late July, around 3,500 migrants had been transported by those states to the banks of the Potomac, triggering Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to ask the Department of Defense for 150 National Guard troops to act as a housing and processing center.

The Biden administration could nip the flood of migrants in the bud if it utilized the expedited removal powers Congress has given it to screen migrants for asylum claims at the border

• The likelihood of being granted asylum is even lower for those Venezuelan migrants who had resettled in third countries before coming to the United States.
• Most of these migrants are economic migrants, pure and simple, not asylum seekers.

Attractive Nuisance

• In tort law, we refer to such negligence as an "attractive nuisance", commonly defined as "a dangerous condition on a landowner's property that may particularly attract children onto the land and pose a risk to their safety".

The Backward Narrative

• Most of the national media has the border narrative backwards
• Abbott and Ducey aren't the bad guys for busing migrants out of overwhelmed border towns where they are essentially stuck, and Biden isn't the good guy for encouraging aliens to make the perilous journey to the United States

https://cis.org/Arthur/New-York-Times-AsylumSeekers-Are-Really-Economic-Migrants