President Biden set a new record this week: More than 12,000 migrants crossed the Southern border Tuesday, the most ever, eclipsing the prior high of 10,000 in a single day back in May, as migrants rushed to beat the clock before Title 42 expired.
In short, it’s not going to stop until the president (this one, or his successor) makes it stop.
Holding facilities are beyond full.
The situation is growing increasingly desperate: US Customs and Border Protection had 22,000 in custody along the Southern border as of Wednesday; maximum capacity is 21,000.
Keeping up with the flood has the CBP overwhelmed: This year alone, hundreds of thousands of migrants have made it into the interior without being stopped, Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas admitted in October.
How many of those “gotaways” are terrorists or foreign agents?
No one knows, but it’s another reason FBI Director Chris Wray says the nation now faces its highest terror threat in years.
Meanwhile, cartels have ramped up their trafficking of fentanyl and people over the border. Cartel-related violence near the border has surged.
They’re filling the power vacuum left by Biden: If Uncle Sam won’t control the border, Sinaloa and the other cartels will.
This is a national security crisis.
Over and over and over, the Biden administration has continued to peddle the obvious falsehood that the border is secure.
Even as Democratic mayors sound the alarm and beg for help with the migrants flooding their cities, the message remains the same: Don’t believe your lying eyes, folks.
Voters disagree: 71% say the border needs stricter security.
Which means that Biden would be doing his re-election chances a huge favor if he realized he won’t get more Ukraine aid unless he yields to Speaker Mike Johnson’s demand for “transformative change” to his border policies.
Biden opened the border to please the left-wing loons in his party, national security (and public opinion) be damned.
Cutting a deal to restore sanity in exchange for bolstering Ukraine against Russia should be a no-brainer; if Biden won’t make that compromise, count it as one more sign he doesn’t have much sense left.