After restoring Catch and Release, after abolishing Remain in Mexico, after walking away from the uncompleted border wall, after hamstringing Border Patrol enforcement, after abrogating the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with the Northern Triangle, after vowing to vastly increase the number of incoming refugees, after promising to protect the “Dreamers,” after plotting amnesty for untold millions, after attempting to suspend all deportations, and after seeing as a result massive increases in illegal border crossings during the first months of its tenure, the Biden administration is pleading “No mas! Not yet!”
Joe Biden, to the extent that he understands anything, is now beginning to see that his ill-chosen campaign assurances to would-be Americans in Central and South America and indeed around the world might have not been such a great idea after all.
The evidence is on the border. The Rio Grande Valley in Texas, for example, has seen more than 2,000 asylum seekers apprehended within the 48 hours that ended yesterday. Over the first few weeks of the Biden administration, the sector has experienced a 647% increase in family unit asylum seekers. Even worse are the numbers of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs). During the month of January, 5,700 UACs were apprehended, the highest total for that month in years.
The influx of UACs, reminiscent of a similar influx that overwhelmed border security in 2019, has forced Biden to reopen a facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, that holds up to 700. Called “cages” when Trump did it, they are now referred to, in Bidenspeak, as “migrant facilities for children.” Biden’s spokesmen are touting the Carrizo Springs camp—which had been briefly open under Trump—as more of a “child welfare” approach than a law enforcement one.
Nevertheless, there are the bars and that wire fence. To some among the far-left faction of Biden’s own party, reopening the facility is all too much a reversion to the “draconian” policies of Trump.
“It goes absolutely against everything Biden promised he was going to do,” said immigration lawyer Linda Brandmiller. “It’s a huge step backward.”
“This is not OK, never has been OK, never will be OK – no matter the administration or party,” tweeted AOC.
Meanwhile, White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the decision, “It is not a replication, certainly not, that is never our intention of replicating the immigration policies of the last administration.” In the same presser she bemoaned her leader’s lack of preparedness, saying, “We don’t have the processing we need at the border. . . . This is not the time to come.”
Their intention or not, the lesson here is to watch what you cavalierly condemn in others. What goes around comes around.
For more, see Breitbart News.
Biden finally got his HEAD out of his ASS