Biden's border blather is late in the game
IT’S no coincidence that the president has started talking tough on the border straight after Donald Trump’s thumping victory in Iowa, where concerns about illegal migration were on every caucusgoer’s lips.
After flinging open the border and inviting in 8 million-plus illegal aliens, Joe Biden belatedly has woken up to the electoral kryptonite and admitted the border crisis.
“No, it’s not,” he said when asked by a reporter if the border was secure. “I haven’t believed that for the last 10 years, and I’ve said it for the last 10 years. Give me the money.”
Biden is playing a sly political game, trying to blame Republicans for the border chaos he created.
But it doesn’t take money or bipartisan amnesty deals to halt the border invasion. It takes an executive order reinstating Trump’s border protections that Biden dismantled on Day One. That’s why millions of illegal migrants are flooding the country. He invited them in.
He spelled out his plans during the 2020 election campaign: “What I would do as president is . . . immediately surge to the border all those people who are seeking asylum.”
Well, that was one promise he kept, with disastrous consequences.
Now he’s pretending he needs cooperation from Republicans in Congress: “They have to choose if they want to solve a problem or keep weaponizing me to score political points against the president,” he said last week. “I’m ready to solve the problem. I really am.”
‘Humane’
The chutzpah is breathtaking. But it’s not going to fly. Every rational person knows that Trump drove illegal migration to record lows, and Biden drove it to record highs.
He pretended that Trump’s policies as “cruel and reckless.”
But the cruelty and recklessness is on his watch, as former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan testified to Congress last week.
“They said our policy was inhumane [but] under President Trump illegal migration went to a 40, 45-year low, an 83% decline . . . When 83% less people are coming, how many migrants didn’t die crossing the border? How many people on the terror screening database didn’t try to come to the country? . . . How many women and children didn’t get sex-trafficked?” he asked. “Under President Biden they call this humane: over 1,700 migrants have died on US soil . . . 112,000 American dying from fentanyl, almost 100,000 missing kids . . . 440,000 unaccompanied children entered the country at the service of the cartels. Someone needs to tell me how that is humane.”
As bad as you think the border is, the reality up close is 10 times worse, according to Johnny, a former Homeland Security Investigations agent who quit his job rather than be sent from New York to the southern border to “assist the invasion.”
He says agents are being forced to let in unsavory people without vetting, such as a Middle Eastern man last month who sported a tattoo of the Twin Towers on fire to celebrate 9/11.
“These are military-aged men. No women,” he said. “This is a flat out invasion of our country, and we are being told by our superiors to go down there and let them in . . . My conscience won’t let me do that.”
The wonder is that it’s taken the Biden administration so long to address this electoral dumpster fire. It won’t be enough to rely on friendly media outlets to keep voters in the dark.
Worldwide issue
Four years ago, The New York Times was running heartrending articles about migrant deaths which they blamed on Trump at a time when illegal migration was at record lows.
Under Biden, if migrant deaths are reported at all, they are attributed to “the heat” or to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. But with so many illegal migrants spread across the country, people in cities like New York are experiencing the border crisis firsthand, and they don’t like it.
You just have to look at Europe to see governments being toppled by public anger over unchecked illegal migration.
The rise of populist anti-immigrant parties was a topic of concern at the globalist conference in Davos, Switzerland, last week, as business leaders like Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase sounded the alarm: “If you do not control the borders, you are going to destroy our country . . . Now they’re sending migrants into New York [and] all my super-liberal friends realize what the problem is.”
Echoing his concern was Christian Lindner, the finance minister of Germany, where anti-immigration Alternative for Germany is gaining ground. To defeat the rise of populism, he called for “a new ‘Realpolitik’ [that] prevents illegal migration into our welfare state.”
In the UK, Rishi Sunak’s government has been roiled by the issue, with ministers quitting over disputes about deporting illegals.
Eight years ago, British voters backed Brexit over the migrant crisis precipitated by European leaders with the same open border mentality as Biden.
Trump won office a few months later — and here we are again.