Biden administration's excuse for their border fiasco

 PJ Media:

The border crisis is the fault of Congress for not giving the Biden Administration “more resources,” according to Presidentish Joe Biden’s own Chief of Staff, Ron Klain.

Appearing on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Klain — the real power behind the throne, according to some sources — admitted to host George Stephanopoulos that “we need to do more work at the border” and reminded viewers that “the president sent an immigration plan to Congress on his first day in office.”

“We’ve asked consistently for more resources,” Klain said.

Has the White House forgotten that their own party is still in charge of Congress? Or is today’s blame game a dress rehearsal for next year, when Republicans likely will?

Or is this hapless Administration just flailing at a poll-crushing crisis it created itself?

Of all the various crises Biden “inherited” on Day One, the border was not one of them.

In March of last year — just two months after Biden took (and I do mean “took”) office — DHS reported that “illegal border crossings are on pace to reach their highest level in two decades.

At the time, the White House claimed that the massive surge was merely a “seasonal” event — nothing to see here, move along.

But Heritage Foundation homeland security researcher Lora Ries told a different story to the Daily Signal:

If you look at the numbers, it is certainly not a seasonal flow that we are seeing right now. For example, 69,000 illegal aliens were apprehended in November of 2020, but just in February of this year, over 100,000 have been apprehended. And that’s expected to go up to over 120,000 for March.

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), 2021 as a whole was even worse:

During FY 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered 1.74 million illegal aliens, up roughly 380 percent from the 458,088 encountered in FY 2020.[5] During Donald Trump’s final three months as president, apprehensions stayed relatively stable at around 75,000 per month before skyrocketing immediately after Biden took office. However, during the first two months of the Biden presidency, apprehensions increased by more than 120 percent.

When apprehensions are up 120% but illegal crossings are up 380%, that increase in apprehensions is nothing to be proud of.

“Biden stood at 37% approval and 58% disapproval on his handling” of the border crisis, according to Fox News, in line with various other pollsters.

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Biden began his open borders policy on day one which created the crisis.  Just like the energy crisis, this is the total responsibility of the irresponsible Biden agenda.  If he were serious about it would not take an act of Congress to not do away with the Title 42 program he is lifting that will allow thousands more illegals into the country.