Meanwhile, Mr. Newsom is doing his utmost to lay out the welcome mat for lawbreaking immigrants due to California’s status as a sanctuary state. His pandering strategy redistributes social services to lawless immigrants instead of serving taxpaying Americans.
Unsurprisingly, Mr. Biden used the visit as a cynical ploy to make it appear as if he’s concerned about border security, when he has been missing in action for three years. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has lied to Congress and insisted that the border is secure. Out of thin air, he and Mr. Biden now claim to care deeply about the border crisis, but why change course now?
They are a day late and a dollar short, and talk is cheap. The bipartisan backlash to the administration’s dereliction of duty has reached a boiling point, and an election is on the horizon, so has Mr. Biden suddenly seen the light? Perhaps, but it’s more likely that he refuses to take responsibility for the border anarchy. For three years, he has broken his presidential oath to protect America from foreign adversaries, and that is morally bankrupt.
Mr. Biden blames Republicans for the porous border, yet with an executive order he could authorize a border closure and restore the “stay in Mexico” policy of his predecessor. That policy was effective during Mr. Trump’s watch, because asylum case documents had to be genuine prior to the immigration process. Indeed, no Congressional action is required now to secure the border, as current laws are sufficient.
Mr. Biden’s catch and release policy should have been reversed. Any immigrant without legitimate asylum claims would be caught and then released back to Mexico instead of into the U.S. That policy could help undercut the power of the cartels that generate huge profits through the export of child labor, drugs, and human trafficking.
Some Democrats claim that overall “undocumented” immigrant crime rates are lower than crime statistics for citizens and legal immigrants. Whether or not the crime figures are higher, lower, or the same has nothing to do with implementing rational border security policies. Why take the chance of more crime and terrorism by inviting millions of unvetted illegal immigrants to pour in at the border? America already has multiple challenges to confront without exacerbating economic and social strains.
Congress wants to help some allies defend their sovereignty and defeat tyranny, yet the Biden administration refuses to secure the Southern border. Why would our allies trust us to assist them when our own national sovereignty is threatened by illegal migration? When Mr. Biden opened the floodgates at the border, it was reminiscent of the Mariel boatlift of 1980.
In 1980, Fidel Castro exported a number of murderers and psychopaths from Cuba’s mental facilities and prisons while allowing about 125,000 people to emigrate to Florida, which had to process them. President Jimmy Carter helped to facilitate this event, and his reelection defeat to Ronald Reagan that fall hinged upon his mishandling of this migration exodus from Cuba. It’s possible that Mr. Biden could suffer the same fate, because his border fiasco is one of the top issues leading up to the national election.
Even if Mr. Biden shuts down the border for the next several months and is reelected, what guarantee would Americans have that he would beef up border security for the next four years? The safety of Americans should never depend on a political calculus. Mr. Biden should have carried out his constitutional duties to place American lives above political games.
At this juncture, Americans don’t need sanitized border visits. They need all hands on deck to turn back unlawful immigrants and speed up the legal immigration process with additional court judges and Customs officers. We need common sense border policies that reflect the will of the people, in order to uphold the rule of law and our longterm security. America’s future is at stake.
