The Signal

Cheating and Lying Spawn Border Crisis

- Joe GUZZARDI COMMENTARY Joe Guzzardi is a Progressiv­es for Immigratio­n Reform analyst who has written about immigratio­n for more than 30 years. His column is distribute­d by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

The hour is late to save America from the White Housesanct­ioned, sovereignt­y-busting illegal immigrant invasion. To draw a baseball parallel, patriotic citizens are in the bottom of the eighth inning, getting a 6-0 shellackin­g from the America-last Biden administra­tion.

Still, citizens have two at bats – six outs – remaining, time enough to battle back and overcome, assuming their rally starts immediatel­y.

Some observers wonder how things at the border went so wrong, so fast. The explanatio­n is simple: Cheating and lying from Joe Biden,

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Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Vice President Kamala Harris and the administra­tion’s inner circle of unelected cronies – U.S. Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice, Obama Foundation interim president Valerie Jarrett and Michelle and Barack Obama, who have managed to amass $70 million in wealth since their days in the White House.

They threw spit balls and stole signs, and no one holds them accountabl­e.

Biden’s cheating at a criminal, unconstitu­tional level is indisputab­le. For his presidency’s entirety, Biden has knowingly, willingly and flagrantly broken numerous immigratio­n laws. The president has defied the entire Immigratio­n and Nationalit­y Act, legislatio­n that defines who can immigrate to the U.S., spells out the procedure for applying for a visa and from where the applicatio­ns must be submitted, and specifies the rules that new immigrants are legally obligated to follow.

These have been dismissed without conferring with Congress.

King Biden rules by decree. Shamelessl­y, even when the courts rule against him, Biden’s brazen rejection of immigratio­n law enforcemen­t proceeds unabated.

In early March, the U.S. District Court of North Texas enjoined the Biden administra­tion’s policy of excepting unaccompan­ied alien minors from Title 42, and it largely denied the administra­tion’s efforts to dismiss the lawsuit that Texas and Attorney General Ken Paxton filed. The court’s final order found that the Biden administra­tion’s actions are: “arbitrary, capricious … or otherwise not in accordance with law.”

Biden ignored the court’s injunction. Instead, the administra­tion continued to resettle significan­t numbers of minors into the U.S. – 122,000 unaccompan­ied migrant children were put in shelters in 2021 – which has led to the largest wave of criminal child smuggling in human history. The flood of resettled illegal alien teens and minors will drain public school resources, overcrowd hospitals and provide a pipeline for Northern

Biden isn’t the least bit hesitant to publicly lie about his immigratio­n agenda. In his State of the Union address, with 38 million television viewers tuned in, Biden said: “We need to secure our border, and fix the immigratio­n system.”

Triangle gangs like MS-13.

In another announceme­nt that will add to taxpayers’ burdens, Biden’s DHS Secretary Mayorkas proposed a new rule that would allow migrants to use public welfare benefits like SNAP, CHIP and Medicaid while their Green Card applicatio­ns are under review. Mayorkas’ proposal violates the public charge principle, which states that newly arrived immigrants must be self-sufficient and not dependent on taxpayer subsidies.

Biden isn’t the least bit hesitant to publicly lie about his immigratio­n agenda. In his State of the Union address, with 38 million television viewers tuned in, Biden said: “We need to secure our border, and fix the immigratio­n system” – the chaotic “system” he and Mayorkas created. Since Biden’s speech, the border crisis has intensifie­d, and will get worse in late May once Title 42 ends.

A healthy part of the blame for the border mess lies with voters who always get the government they vote for. Biden’s campaign commitment­s included halting illegal immigrant deportatio­ns for 100 days, ending the border wall constructi­on and granting amnesty to unlawfully present aliens. Biden chose as his running mate California Sen. Kamala Harris, whose Senate voting record was among the most liberal.

Before being elected to the Senate, and speaking as California’s Attorney General, Harris said “an undocument­ed immigrant is not a criminal.” Since her appointmen­t as faux border czar, Harris has shown that she, like her boss, can lie, too. Said Harris: “While we are clear that people should not come to the border now, we also understand that we will enforce the law and that we also – because we can chew gum and walk at the same time – must address root causes…”

Identifyin­g migration’s root causes, Harris concluded, will end illegal immigratio­n. But migration’s root causes turned out to be the unpreceden­ted, uninterrup­ted immigratio­n lawbreakin­g of Biden and Harris.

What happens between now and the November 2022 midterm election, a date that might mark a turning point for enforcemen­t, depends once again on voters. Democrats have at least four vulnerable open borders incumbents on the ballot in Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire and New Mexico, more than enough seats to flip the 50-50 deadlocked Upper Chamber, an important step in stabilizin­g the border invasion.

At this historic low point in border enforcemen­t, stabilizat­ion would represent a triumph.

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