New York Post

A Border for Joe, But Not for You

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President Biden is all for open borders — except when it comes to the one around his own vacation spot. He’s stuck taxpayers with a bill for close to half a million for a security fence around his Delaware beach house, a project ongoing since last September, contracted out to a local builder by the Department of Homeland Security.

The irony is rich: The same agency Biden has used to help erase the US southern border is overseeing a wall around the president’s ocean hideaway.

Yes, presidents need security (especially in these deranged political times). But the nation and the people who inhabit it also need security — as do those who aspire to come here.

Biden’s policies, which entice illegal migrants to put their lives at risk on the long journey while creating unsustaina­ble pressures on the small towns they flow into, make a mockery of both.

Witness the jaw-dropping spectacle of feds literally ushering illegal migrants into the country and the record numbers of largely catch-and-release-into-the-US migrant “arrests,” set to break 2 million just for this year — and that doesn’t include the estimated 55,000-plus crossing monthly without being caught.

Again, the inescapabl­y conclusion is that Biden doesn’t care about Americans’ security (only his own). His endless claims to be fixing the border would be comical, if the consequenc­es for America and those streaming across its border weren’t so tragic.

Then again, maybe there would be no point in building a border wall anyway — as long as Democrats are driving policy, they’ll be throwing all gates wide open anyway.

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