Friends and neighbors –
The Star Tribune recently published an eye-opening story reminding us that the Biden administration’s utter failure to control our borders is not contained to states like Texas or New York. We are experiencing it in Minnesota too.
From the story:
- “After a month in New York’s overcrowded homeless shelters, two Ecuadorian migrants and their baby recently received a free plane ticket to Minneapolis.”
- “One-third of the 452 families in homeless shelters run by Hennepin County are newcomers to the United States, as a surge of migrants cross the southern border.”
- “It remains unclear how many migrants come to Minnesota directly versus from cities away from the border, but most are Ecuadorians seeking asylum, waiting for court dates that are months or years away. Now the county is lodging more than 1,500 people in its family shelters while searching daily for new rooms.”
- “Minnesota’s immigration court has 7,779 Ecuadorians with pending cases, up from 344 in 2018. The overwhelming majority of Ecuadorian asylum-seekers are not homeless, but some turn to shelters as their own help networks strain.”
Hennepin County has in place a “shelter all” policy that says anyone qualifying for shelter cannot be turned away, including migrants here illegally. When shelters are full, they find alternatives.
As the nonpartisan think tank Center of the American Experiment notes, this policy has “been the undoing of New York and the reason why the city is offering “free” one-way plane tickets to migrants. New York City has seen more than 120,000 migrants arrive in the past year.”
That is the direction we are heading here in Minnesota. Something must change.
God Bless,