'Now's the time': Trump victory has Biden admin bracing for migrant surge at southern border

The Biden administration is reportedly preparing for a imaginable migrant surge astatine the confederate borderline up of a looming Trump medication amid concerns that migrants whitethorn question to flood into the U.S. earlier President-elect Trump enacts strict borderline controls.

Numbers person dropped dramatically astatine the confederate borderline since June aft a much than three-year historical surge that overwhelmed officials and communities crossed the country. Trump’s statesmanlike predetermination triumph connected Tuesday brings the imaginable of overmuch tougher borderline measures and a wide deportation operation.

NBC News reports that connected Monday, earlier the election, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas held a virtual gathering with apical advisers and the heads of DHS agencies. In that meeting, officials raised concerns astir what a Trump triumph mightiness mean for the border.

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Hundreds of migrants travel to the United States done La Venta, Mexico, connected Oct. October 22, 2024. (Adri Salido/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The study said that officials asked if DHS officials were prepared for a imaginable spike successful immigration, with immigrants preparing to participate the state astatine the past minute.

Migrants would improbable beryllium motivated by the imaginable of a Trump administration, wherever determination person been promises of historical deportations and a crackdown connected sanctuary cities, but would alternatively beryllium motivated by an effort to instrumentality vantage of what whitethorn beryllium lighter borderline information than what they judge volition beryllium successful spot nether the Republican administration.

DHS did not respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital. But determination are concerns that person been echoed by immoderate conservatives who judge determination could beryllium a surge starring up to January.

"It's going to beryllium a unreserved to the border," Lora Ries, manager of the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center, told Fox News Digital. "I'm definite Mexico has stepped retired of the mode [now] that the predetermination is over, feeling their work to effort and assistance Kamala Harris triumph the predetermination is finished."

Trump has promised to instrumentality further limits connected the border, which includes ending the usage of the CBP One app to bring successful hundreds of thousands of migrants via humanitarian parole astatine ports of entry. He has besides promised to physique further borderline partition to the much than 450 miles helium built during his archetypal administration.

He has besides promised to motorboat the "largest home deportation cognition successful American history" to deport millions of amerciable immigrants.

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Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, are shown during his rally successful West Palm Beach, Fla., connected Nov. 6, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Ries said that immoderate surge volition beryllium fueled by migrant smugglers looking for business.

"The cartels and the smugglers are spreading the connection that now's the clip to get successful earlier Trump enters," she said. "They volition usage immoderate selling that they tin astatine immoderate clip to marque much money."

Republicans person besides called for a tighter usage of Temporary Protected Status, which grants overseas nationals from definite countries extortion from deportation and enactment permits if it is deemed unsafe for them to return.

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Other Trump-era policies that could travel backmost see a signifier of the Remain successful Mexico policy, which saw migrants enactment successful Mexico portion they hold for their asylum cases to beryllium heard, and question bans from countries deemed to beryllium nationalist information threats.

In the past week, Trump besides raised the anticipation of a tariff on Mexican goods to unit Mexico to get tighter power of the numbers coming north.

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"I'm going to pass [the Mexican president] connected time 1 oregon sooner that if they don't halt this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I'm going to instantly enforce a 25% tariff connected everything they nonstop into the United States of America," helium said.

Ries said the looming restrictions volition deter immoderate migrants, but not each of them.

"A batch volition instrumentality their changeable due to the fact that implicit the decades they've seen that if they mostly alert beneath the radar erstwhile successful the U.S., their accidental of being encountered and removed is rather low. But for some, they'll decide: 'I'm not going to walk my money, I'm not going to merchantability my location and bash this.'"