Biden administrating tries to camouflage border crisis it caused

 National Review:

The Biden administration is crediting strengthened border enforcement and a crackdown by the Mexican government on migrants traveling to the U.S. for a drastic drop in illegal southern border crossings in recent months.

But Republicans argue that the border crisis has not abated. They argue instead that the administration is playing a shell game, using “unlawful mass-parole programs” to send migrants to ports of entry and then letting them into the country “often with little or no vetting.”

According to a report from CBS News, over the first three weeks of May, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended about 3,700 migrants per day between official ports of entry, which, if the trend holds, would lead to about 115,000 apprehensions for the month. That would be down from the 129,000 apprehensions in April and 137,000 in May, and a more than 50 percent drop from December when agents made about 250,000 apprehensions.

The Border Patrol apprehensions don’t include the number of migrants processed at official ports of entry.

“We have driven down the number of encounters at our southern border rather dramatically,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CBS, citing a “number of actions that we have taken, not only strengthening our enforcement, not only attacking the smugglers, but also building lawful pathways that enable people who qualify for relief to reach the United States in a safe, orderly, and legal way.”

But House Republicans contend that despite Mayorkas’s claims, “the border crisis remains at catastrophic levels.” On Wednesday, the House Committee on Homeland Security noted that in April, total Southwest border encounters topped 179,000 and total nationwide encounters exceeded 247,000. Border encounters include both immigrants apprehended crossing the border illegally and those who are processed at official ports of entry.
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Biden caused this crisis by halting the Trump policies that had the border under better control. Biden should pay a political price for his irresponsible border policies that are leading to unvetted immigrants coming from around the world.  The current group has hardly any Mexicans.  Even some of the migrants find Biden's and Mayorkas's policies irresponsible.

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