Source: CIS, By Todd Bensman, May 11, 2023
CIS analyst Todd Bensman is live at the border in Matamoros and Reynosa, Mexico at a massive migrant camp. He has been watching thousands of migrants flooding into the U.S. all day; they are not waiting for the end of Title 42. Mexican immigration officials on the ground are powerless to do anything.
Thousands upon thousands of Haitians in Reynosa. What will they do? The CBPOne app wait for humanitarian permits is months long, even if the Biden government opens wide the aperture pic.twitter.com/7JmIm3d7Cj
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 11, 2023
Meanwhile 50 miles upstream in Reynosa 15000 Haitians are wondering whether to stay or go over the river after title 42 ends
More coming pic.twitter.com/ooBdIyYc9k— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 11, 2023
Part 2: @GregAbbott_TX ‘s newly deployed National Guard tactical unit guarding from the razor wire on riverbanks late last night from Matamoros. I am told they can use non-lethal force if physically challenged. pic.twitter.com/ZuKbxvRP4e
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 11, 2023
Part 1: Here’s what Gov. @GregAbbott_TX new tactical National Guard force looked like last night on the razor wire. From Matamoros. I’m told Texas will stop immigrants ON the river and that they may use non-lethal force like pepper balls if physically challenged pic.twitter.com/SGq9pvwmup
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 11, 2023
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 10, 2023
Just another small turn of the screw in the greatest ever mass migration crisis in US – and world – history. pic.twitter.com/hm3PPPUCXK
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 10, 2023
Mexican immigration’s power of persuasion is about as persuasive as is the American Title 42 expulsion threat and, I predict, its coming “Title 8” replacement. Eventually, Venezuelans blow them off and cross… pic.twitter.com/iKGXOmjLiA
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 9, 2023
Tension in Matamoros between throngs of fully prepared border crossers and unarmed Mexican immigration officers who I believe were ordered to make a fake losing show of blocking access to the river. All are going one way or another because, they attest, Biden is letting them in. pic.twitter.com/6omU3VDeaT
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 9, 2023
Mexican officials are reduced to persuasion – “what about the children?!” This one pleads. But moms know best pic.twitter.com/WFiWKFh8ku
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 9, 2023
Unarmed Mexican immigration unable to hold back the human tide in Matamoros Mexico. These migrants all know someone who swam over and is now living in New Jersey or wherever. pic.twitter.com/r9W8kq821l
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 9, 2023
So ON in Matamoros. Thousands just POURING into Brownsville and prepping to keep right on POURING over pic.twitter.com/hUvpREnOSZ
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 9, 2023
So ON in Matamoros! Title 42? Title 8? What’re those? pic.twitter.com/63xs90rmhN
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 9, 2023
Dagistan, Belarus, and Russia are all represented here at this Matamoros Mexico hotel. Along with many Kyrgyzstanis. All granted “humanitarian parole” appointments in two weeks using the CBP One app. On their merry ways to Philly, Denver, and LA. pic.twitter.com/M5uTqMeLiO
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 9, 2023
Cubans in a huge Matamoros Mexico camp last night told me they all will immediately cross the Rio Grande illegally the second they hear – on a regular newscast – that the Americans are letting anyone in after Title 42 ends Thursday. pic.twitter.com/f0penfxuwo
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 9, 2023
Venezuelans in a huge Matamoros Mexico camp last night told me they’ll watch and wait for the end of title 42 and if the see the Americans start letting anyone through under the new Title 8 scheme will immediately cross illegally. pic.twitter.com/s5O1FVuLnJ
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) May 9, 2023
