NATA forces patrol the Polish border with Ukraine
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Outrage grows as Biden diverts Border Patrol
agents from U.S. border to aid Ukraine border


Posted by: Scott A. Davis
February 25, 2022
Featured, Homeland Security, News


WASHINGTON, DC
Amid a U.S. border crisis, President Biden is diverting Customs and Border Protection
officers from the strained United States southern border to send overseas to help
at the Ukrainian border.







A memo issued by the CBP’ office of field operations requested border patrol volunteers
to be immediately deployed to Poland in support of “Operation Ukraine Support,” according
to a report by Just The News.

The memo sent to field operations executives stated:

“The Office of Field Operations is seeking volunteers to assist with the possible evacuation
of U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and their immediate family members from Ukraine".

“Eligible employees who volunteer for this situation may be selected to serve a temporary
duty assignment in Poland to facilitate travelers for entry into the U.S., to include providing
guidance and problems resolution to other government agencies.”







As international humanitarian groups warned that the Russian invasion could trigger a major
exodus from Ukraine, some refugee resettlement leaders in the United States called on the Biden
administration to prepare to welcome people fleeing the war.

David Duea, president of Lutheran Community Services Northwest, called resettling Ukrainian
refuges inside the U.S. a “moral imperative”:

“It will be our moral imperative to welcome Ukrainian refugees, as we have been doing for decades.”

However, the U.S. refugee program has been strained beyond limits trying to place 70,000 evacuees
from Afghanistan following the disastrous pull out from the war-torn country in August.







Bill Frelick, director of the refugee and migrant rights division of Human Rights Watch, said
funding cuts during the Trump administration have left nonprofits involved in resettlement,
and that keeping refugees overseas would be a better solution:

“Right now, our resettlement capacity, which was decimated under the Trump administration,
is strained to the limits.

Establishing camps, if needed in places like Poland, would be a much higher imperative than
planning for refugee resettlement at this emergency stage.”

Resettling Ukrainian refugees inside the U.S. is also complicated by the failed Afghan resettlement
program, which has been widely criticized for allowing at least 50 individuals posing “potentially
significant security concerns.”







In addition, the Defense Department Inspector General informed Congress earlier this month that
28 out of 31 Afghan evacuees with known “derogatory information” can no longer be located:

“Not being able to locate Afghan evacuees with derogatory information quickly and accurately
could pose a security risk to the United States. In addition, the U.S. government could mistakenly
grant ineligible Afghan evacuees with derogatory information" (parole into the country).

“Significant security concerns include individuals whose latent fingerprints have been found on
improvised explosive devices and known or suspected terrorists.”







In addition to those concerns, pulling Border Patrol agents from the U.S./Mexico border will further
stretch U.S. immigration enforcement capabilities at a time when about 2.1 million border crossers
and illegal aliens are expected at the border this year.

In January, the Border Patrol apprehended nearly 154,000 border crossers as the Biden administration
signaled lax immigration enforcement and calls for leniency for border crossers.

The administration has re-enacted the catch-and-release process that was ended by former
President Donald Trump. The Biden administration released more than 62,500 border crossers
into the U.S. just last month.

In a leaked audiotape obtained by Townhall, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the immigration crisis in the United States was the
worst it has been in two decades:

“Look, it’s worse now than it, frankly, has been in at least 20 years, if not ever.”







Steven Kopits with Princeton Policy Advisors, predicted that this year’s immigration crisis would
outpace last year under the Biden administration:

“Given the comparatively steady pace of apprehensions, we might expect recent
experience under the Biden administration to continue.

“Under such circumstances, we forecast 2.1 million apprehensions for both calendar year
and fiscal year 2022, both records besting not only all other administrations but even the
Biden administration’s disastrous first year.”