Biden sends more paper shufflers to the border — "there's nothing scarier to an illegal alien than the sound of a ream of paper hitting the floor.”

ICE ramps up staffing at southern border to aid CBP with new migrant surge

Not to protect our border or enforce our laws, but to push the illegals into the country an disperse them around the states more quickly.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is sending additional personnel to help Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deal with a massive migrant surge at the southern border that has left authorities overwhelmed.

ICE, responsible for enforcing federal immigration law in the interior and investigating and dismantling transnational criminal networks, is sending dozens of personnel to the border to aid CBP, an ICE official told Fox News Digital.

Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), tasked with the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants, will provide 141 personnel to assist CBP with border operations.

Those duties will include responding to questions regarding medical and transport issues, enrolling illegal immigrants into alternatives to detention (ATD) electronic monitoring and coordinating removals and the necessary travel documents. [To travel across the nation to destinations of their choice — Ed]

Meanwhile, the agency currently has 132 ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents at the border, and that number will increase to 197.  As part of a memo of understanding, the special agents will be assigned to duties that include hospital watch, transportation, law enforcement searches, security and welfare checks.

ICE is a smaller agency than CBP, so moving significant numbers of staff to the border has the potential to impact ongoing operations. HSI agents have previously complained that deployments have impacted ongoing investigations. 

"We're already understaffed as an agency, and pulling us down to the border — it makes us almost a critical level of understaffed," one agent told Fox News Digital in August.

But the deployment is also coming amid a historic migrant crisis at the border, where other agencies have seen staff sent to the border to pitch in. Fox reported Thursday that there were 200,000 migrant encounters at the border in December, and agents are seeing more than 10,000 a day, meaning the month is on track to shatter records. 

A deliberate strategy to disrupt our country and remake it as the elite envision it: a country of peasants dependent on their masters who, of course, will be the same people who are doing this to us.

UPDATE: The previous closing of ports of entry and shifting of inspectors to processing paperwork has accomplished exactly what this administration wanted:

Closures at key US-Mexico border crossings cause chaos with BILLIONS lost in trade: Railway operations at Eagle Pass and El Paso are still shut down and gas stations and restaurants in Lukeville are forced to cut hours

Shutting down crossings along the US-Mexico border have done little to stem the flow of tends of thousands of migrants and cost the economy billions.

President Joe Biden ordered rail crossings at Eagle Pass and El Paso, both in Texas, to be closed earlier this month so border agents could be diverted.

Officers are stretched razor-thin trying to process at least 10,000 asylum-seekers walking across every day, with claims Mexican officials are helping them.

With so few available to deal with the enormous influx, officers who usually regulate traffic at official points of entry were moved to help.

The crossing at Lukeville, Arizona, was also closed on December 4 with no reopening date in sight, dealing a hammer blow to the local economy.

Eagle Pass and El Paso by themselves make up $33.95 billion in trade a year, and 36 per cent of all cross-border rail traffic, the Texas Association of Business said.

'This is a short-sighted, half-baked decision that will not make a dent in illegal migration but will cause economic harm to everyday Americans,' chief executive Glenn Hamer said. 

Rail company Union Pacific said 45 per cent of its rail cars between the US and Mexico went through the two crossings and there wasn't enough capacity at the other four points of entry to reroute them.

'Every day that the border is closed, Union Pacific is forced to embargo customers' goods on more than 60 trains, or nearly 4,500 rail cars, with an equivalent of goods being held in Mexico,' it said.

The company said this impacted the trade of grain held in six Midwestern states, beer and dry food products, vehicle sales and their parts, consumer goods, and industrial commodities like metals and cement.

Another reason given for closing the border crossings was to stop people smugglers sneaking immigrants into the US on trains, but Union Pacific said only five migrants were found on its trains in the past five weeks.