Biden's disastrous Border bungle

 Michael Goodwin:

Decades of writing about politicians has taught me that the successful ones generally do not make big decisions on the fly. If you watch and listen, you can usually spot a deliberative process and defensible reasoning behind their positions.

But now comes a major exception: the decision by the Biden administration to throw open our southern border.

Two years into this national disaster, I don’t have a clue about why the president and his team are still doing this. What started as a foolish bid to undo everything Donald Trump did has become a permanent policy that undercuts national security and defies decency.

The White House has never explained itself, and the plausible reasons — importing future Democrats, cheap farm labor, or humanitarian concerns — make zero sense when measured against the human suffering involved on both sides of the border.

Yet the surge continues without a hint of remorse and is about to get even worse with the likely end of the pandemic-era Title 42 rule, which made expulsions easier.

The damage done already is mind-boggling. More than 5 million mostly unvetted people have entered the United States in the last two years. It is certain that among them are potential terrorists and many members of drug cartels, human traffickers and murderous gangs.

The Border Patrol reports that more than 275,000 unaccompanied minors arrived since Biden took office — a number comparable to the entire population of Buffalo.

For generations, immigrants from around the world played by the rules, but now on a presidential whim, there are no rules. Get here however you can and the door is wide open.

Most of the new arrivals were coached by American lawyers to claim asylum, even though the vast majority don’t meet the legal requirement of escaping religious or political persecution. Nonetheless, they can stay pending court hearings, which, because of backlogs, will not happen for five years or more.

Historically, many applicants skip the hearings and remain in the US illegally, and there’s no reason the same pattern won’t hold with millions of recent arrivals.
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Five million dwarfs the population of every city except New York, yet most have been allowed entry despite not being able to legally work and having no family here willing to accept responsibility for their welfare.

So they are drains on private charities and government largesse. Scattered across the nation, sometimes by stealth flights arranged by federal officials and sometimes by GOP border-state governors wanting to share their pain with blue-state governors, the migrants are showing up in schools and hospitals from coast to coast. Some are living in filthy encampments on streets and parks.
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Biden's border policies are irrational in the extreme and are hurting American citizens.  I suspect Biden hopes all of these illegals get an amnesty and start voting for Democrats, but voters should rightly rebel against this notion. 

Meanwhile, the mayor of  El Paso is declaring an emergency over this invasion of illegals.