Not 1 cent for Biden’s failed border strategy
by Washington Examiner October 26, 2023 washingtonexaminer.com
When a flailing administration has to release bad news, it usually does so during the last business hours of a Friday to minimize bad press. But this September’s illegal immigration numbers were so bad that burying them this way wasn’t good enough.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security waited till Saturday morning to release last month’s horror story from the southern border. The encounter data made it immediately obvious why the administration waited so long: The numbers prove that Biden’s border policies have been a complete and irredeemable failure.
Not only were more migrants caught illegally crossing the border in September than ever before, but Biden also set the record for illegal crossings in a single fiscal year at 2.48 million. That’s compared to 2.38 million last year, 1.73 million the year before, and 450,000 in former President Donald Trump’s final year in office.
The huge jump immediately after Biden took office is no coincidence. Even before he became president, Biden advised people from around the world, “You should come.”
Then, on his first day in office, he ended the successful and popular “Remain in Mexico” program, instituted a 100-day moratorium on deportations, and made it all but impossible for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to deport anyone except the most violent criminals.
Armed with Biden’s invitation and the knowledge that friends and family were being let in under Biden’s new policies, millions of economic migrants have been swarming our nation ever since.
At first, Biden tried to deny the problem existed, blaming seasonal shifts in migration patterns. But after the failure of his policies became manifest — after New York City, then Washington, then Chicago, then Boston, after all these Democratic mayors and governors said they simply could not cope with any more of Biden’s guests moving into their communities — Biden is now coming hat in hand to Congress to ask for more money to bail out the crisis he created.
Last week, after a speech drawing on the war in Ukraine and the heinous terrorist attacks in Israel, Biden submitted his border bailout wish list to Congress, attached to money for Ukraine and Israel.
The White House fact sheet reads like a guide on “how to make the border crisis worse.” Biden wants to spend more on “additional grants to local governments and nonprofits to support the provision of temporary food, shelter, and other services for those recently released from DHS custody.” He wants money for “support for eligible arrivals, including services to successfully resettle in the United States.” And he wants “expansion of lawful pathways, including efforts to streamline the processing of eligible refugees and migrants.”
Nothing in Biden’s plan is intended to slow illegal immigration. Every dime will throw gasoline onto the raging inferno of illegal immigration burning our national sovereignty at the southern border.
That Biden is trying to attach these border-weakening provisions in aid to Israel just after Israel suffered one of the worst violations of its borders in history is beyond tone-deaf.
Whatever else happens with aid to Ukraine, aid to Israel, and the expiration of the continuing resolution that is keeping the rest of the government running, the top priority for Republicans in Congress should be to block Biden’s efforts to make the border crisis worse. There is only so much the GOP can do to force Biden to follow the law and protect sovereignty, but at a bare minimum, Republicans should give him not 1 cent more to make it worse.
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