It’s amazing what the looming threat of a midterm election can do.
President Joe Biden, for example, is now an advocate for border security. In fact, he started to sound a bit like … well, I’ll let you guess.
“If we are to advance liberty and justice, we need to secure the border and fix the immigration system,” Biden said during his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Now doesn’t that sound familiar?
He continued: “We can do both. At our border, we’ve installed new technology like cutting-edge scanners to better detect drug smuggling. We’ve set up joint patrols with Mexico and Guatemala to catch more human traffickers. We’re putting in place dedicated immigration judges so families fleeing persecution and violence can have their cases heard faster.”
Unfortunately, like much of the rest of his speech, Biden didn’t mean a word of this. The actual immigration policies he has implemented during the past year prove as much. Under his administration, illegal immigration has soared at an unprecedented rate. More than 2 million migrants were apprehended while trying to cross the southern border during 2021, which is more than double the number of migrants stopped in recent years during the Obama and Trump administrations.
Biden has only himself to blame. He rolled back many of the successful policies implemented by former President Donald Trump, including the “Remain in Mexico” program, which required migrants seeking asylum in the United States to wait in Mexico while their claims made their way through the U.S. court system. Even after a federal court ruled that he could not repeal the program, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security signaled that it would keep trying.
But no matter. At least it is now politically acceptable to want to secure the border — unless, of course, you’re Donald Trump.
*story by The Washington Examiner
