President Joe Biden became president largely by promising to Make America Normal Again.
The shambolic U.S.-Mexico “border” confirms how Biden shattered that promise. There is nothing normal about the coast-to-coast disaster over which he governs, thanks largely to his deeply abnormal definition of border security.
… the House will soon vote on HR 2, the Secure the Border Act, a bill that would successfully end a border crisis that is built on asylum fraud, child exploitation, and corruption.
What is happening along our international borders today is not just about illegal immigration or drug smuggling. It’s also about the rapid increase in human trafficking and modern-day slavery, which is flourishing with the chaos that open borders facilitate.
A fire that killed 38 migrants in Mexico reveals the spillover effects of bad policy.
A security-camera video shows a detainee trying to kick open a cell door as the flames spread. Guards put their heads down and walked away. When the smoke cleared, 38 were dead. More than 20 were hospitalized in serious or critical condition.
“The U.S.-Canada border is now a hot spot for illegal alien crossings, including individuals on the terrorist watchlist, organized criminal activity, and illicit drug smuggling,” Rep. Dan Bishop, chairman of the Homeland Security subcommittee on oversight, investigations, and accountability, said in his opening statement.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) flew illegal migrants from the northern border to the southern border to expel them under Title 42, a Trump-era public health expulsion order, according to an internal agency memorandum reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Raul L. Ortiz told the House’s Homeland Security Committee on March 15 that Biden’s unwillingness to protect the border has opened the doors to around 1.5 million undocumented immigrants from the south, citing updated numbers.
“Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States.”
So says the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The same webpage that makes this declaration includes a table that provides some relevant data for the fiscal years from 2017 to 2023. It lists how many individuals on the Terrorist Screening Dataset (commonly known as the “terrorist watchlist”) were encountered by the Border Patrol as they were trying to illegally sneak into the United States between the ports of entry on our southern border.
“Each day the House of Representatives does not take action to secure the border is another day in which the Biden administration perpetuates the national security and humanitarian calamity it has created at our southern border,” the RSC Steering Committee, which is made up of 18 GOP leaders, said in a press release.
Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are looking to turn up the heat on DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the wake of bombshell testimony from Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz that the chairman of the committee described as “earth-shattering.”
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