Biden's broken immigration system

 Derrick Van Orden:

I recently returned from a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas. This was the second trip I have taken there as a congressman, and it was the most disturbing. During our visit, a group of migrants waded through the Rio Grande River and crossed into the U.S., right in front of 60 Members of Congress and hundreds of local, state, and federal officers and military members. Those crossing clearly had no apprehension in doing so.

Our immigration system is profoundly broken, and we are seeing the worst border crisis on record in U.S. Customs and Border Patrol history as a result. In November 2023, over 240,000 people crossed the southern border and over 8 million border crossings have taken place since President Biden took office. The consequences of a nonexistent border are present from every angle as humans fall subject to the most brutal treatment by cartels. More than 85,000 unaccompanied minors are unaccounted for as of April 2023. During my visit, Border Patrol agents shared that they estimate that number to now be over 100,000, and communities are forced to drain their resources to account for increased crime and homelessness due to the migrants residing within our borders.
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Border security is national security, and the current vetting process puts Americans’ safety at significant risk. When a person crosses the border and cannot provide any physical identification, they are asked to verbally provide a name, birthdate, and country of origin. If the information provided is not found in Border Patrol’s databases, our government accepts this information as their true identity and issues them an identification card, further cementing this potentially false identity.

President Biden’s border policies have also created a humanitarian crisis. It is deeply troubling that there are over 100,000 unaccompanied minors who have crossed the border and simply disappeared. The reason we are unable to locate these children is multifold, including the volume of children, poor identification methods, and the lack of response from the children’s stated sponsors.

We can put an end to the crisis at our border. The most obvious policy change that would have an immediate, positive effect on reducing illegal border crossings, is to reinstate the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. ‘Remain in Mexico’, officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols, requires people who are seeking asylum in the U.S. to stay in Mexico until their U.S. immigration court date. The policy was initially terminated by President Biden on his first day in office, and according to the Border Patrol agents we spoke to, reinstating it would reduce illegal crossings by 70%. ‘Remain in Mexico’ was a Trump-era program that was removed when Biden took office, and the Biden administration can reinstate it.
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Biden is responsible for the broken immigration system and it looks like the surest way to fix it is to vote him out of office.  Electing him was a big mistake that was facilitated by a media hostile to Trump.  The US is now suffering the consequences of that mistake. 

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