Biden's Border
by Chris Farrell • November 8, 2021 at 5:00 am
Fiscal year-end figures provided this month by the Department of Homeland Security show that 2021 was the record year for all-time high apprehensions on the southern border. Federal agents apprehended 1,659,206 illegal immigrants at the southwest border in 2021, breaking the previous high of 1,643,679 in 2000.
The Biden administration, despite an August 2021 court ruling by Texas-based US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, continues to find ways through policy rules and memoranda of instruction, to circumvent the law and permit unlawful entry.
[T]he Biden administration has also decided to skew the numbers more favorably toward their goals for an even more "open borders" unrestricted immigration with a new policy directive from Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas... fencing off a number of new "protected areas" where no immigration law enforcement activities are permitted.
Border communities and states will feel the impact of Biden's policies first and the hardest, but what this administration has unleashed on the nation at
-large will have enormous consequences for every facet of our society: housing, healthcare, education, services, public safety, quality of life, employment, economics, the justice system, and – of course – voting rolls. The voting issue is indisputably altered in California under Governor Gavin Newsom, where election officials mailed unsolicited ballots state-wide, reportedly enabling "Cheating in plain sight."
One does not see reporting in the American news media nowadays about the "Biden Caravans," thousands of immigrants making their way north to the border region of the United States. News media reports on the number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the border are also few and far between. The deficit in reporting and public attention does not, however, mean that the border crisis has abated. In fact, the crisis has deepened on all fronts: it is a humanitarian disaster compounded by rampant criminality and grave national security threats.
