With hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants released into the United States by President Joe Biden already, and tens of thousands more coming every day, it is becoming more and more common for local television stations to interview some of these migrants to find out why and how they came.
The CBS 12 News investigative team in West Palm Beach, Florida, did exactly that, sitting down with Jimmy and Catheline Nivose, who illegally entered the U.S. last September.
Originally from Haiti, the couple first took their child to Chile, where they were living legally until Biden was sworn into office.
Explaining why they felt it was “go time” when Biden became president, Catheline Nivose told CBS12, “Because there was a message — a mass text message that went out among all Haitians living in Chile. It said, ‘Now it is safe — now you should try to get into America.'”
The 5,000-mile journey from Chile to Texas was perilous. Other migrants in their group were bitten by poisonous snakes, and their guides demanded money. At one point, she told Jimmy Nivose she couldn’t take another step.
But the couple eventually made it to Del Rio, Texas, where they were part of the almost 15,000 migrants who formed a tent city under a bridge that crossed into Mexico.
Jimmy and Catheline Nivose were taken into custody by Border Patrol agents who first flew them to California before giving them plane tickets to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which was their preferred destination.
The couple was also given a cellphone by the Biden administration, and Jimmy Nivose occasionally receives texts asking him to take a picture of himself and send it to Department of Homeland Security officials.
Nivose says he complies with the requests because “if I don’t answer, they’ll try to find me.”
He needn’t worry. The Biden administration is not making any effort to deport nonviolent migrants such as Jimmy and Catheline Nivose.
CBS12 did not mention if the Nivoses were applying for asylum, but if they are like most Haitian migrants, they will apply and most likely be denied. But that doesn’t mean anyone from the Biden administration will come to track them down. Most likely, they are here for good, forever in limbo until our nation’s borders are finally secured.
*story by The Washington Examiner
