President Biden’s threat to the national security AND personal safety comes in three major policy areas – reduced law enforcement, open borders and foreign policy. Whether his failure to address crime is incompetence, malfeasance or diminished mental capacity is uncertain. In the first of the three-part series, we dealt with reduced law enforcement. In this commentary, we take up the porous border.
Open borders
Biden and the Democrats keep telling us that the border is not open. It just looks that way. The governors and mayors along the border say it is open. Those living along the border say it is open. The border patrol says it is open. And they all see the crime that is the result of millions of migrants illegally crossing the border. Americans across the nation see it as the criminals embedded with the refuge-seekers spread their crimes to major cities and small towns.
It is not only the criminal activities. Illegal aliens have been responsible for injuries and deaths from auto accidents But of course, the criminals are the worst.
The Trump administration had produced policies to close the borders with a wall and increased border patrol enforcement – and by supporting the activities of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) in tracking down the hardened criminals who regularly breach our border with criminal intent and tons of illicit drugs. He took special aim at the vicious MS-13 gang.
So, what are Biden’s and the Democratic Party’s policies? First was to immediately stop construction of the wall – even though there were contracts and paid-for supplies ready to carry on the project. There are now tens of millions of dollars worth of wall units laying in fields getting rusty.
Biden paid lip service to discourage the caravans of migrants from coming to the border. His Vice President Harris even said that to folks south of the border. But even as he made that cover-his-ass statement, Biden imposed policies to encourage the immigrants to march north.
Biden issued an order to end Trump’s agreement with Mexico that kept the migrants camping out south of the border until their claims of asylum could be processed – and they could be properly vetted. Fortunately, the Federal courts struck down Biden’s order and the Trump program was reinstated.
Rather than discouraging the illegal border crossing, Biden has restricted the activities of the Border Patrol and curtailed ICE raids and arrests. He further encouraged migrants to come to the border by implementing a policy through which those with children – parents or drug cartellians serving as coyotes — would be allowed to stay. Democrat mayors and governors have ordered the local sheriff departments to not cooperate with ICE.
Democrats have been quick to provide a range of benefits to illegal aliens – welfare, free education for the children, work permits and even the right to vote in some communities. One of the mainstays of Democrat urban policy is the sanctuary movement. They provide sanctuary to illegal aliens in defiance of federal laws.
It is noteworthy that the Biden/Democrat policy is to disallow local sheriffs along the border from arresting illegal border crossers – even those with criminal records – because protecting the border is the exclusive job of the federal government. At the same time, Democrats allow their leftwing mayors to create sanctuary programs in defiance of federal laws.
The danger to the public from Biden’s open borders policies is not only a matter of crime. Illegal border crossers arrive in America unvetted for Covid – or any number of contagious illnesses. They arrive unvaccinated and unmasked. There is no social distancing as they congregate on either side of the border. They are moved into the mainland where they can – and have –spread disease.
And the victimization is not only American citizens who lose loved ones and property – or are assaulted or raped – by illegal migrants. In encouraging the migration, Biden & Co. are subjecting those hoping to set down stakes in America to a harsh journey with sickness and crime. There is virtually no reporting on the assaults, deaths and rapes – often involving children — that occur along the modern-day Train of Tears. Nor do the news outlets report the number of deaths among migrants – including murder.
Because Biden and the Democrats refuse to enforce the federal laws regarding immigration, migrant and refugee applications, America is less safe. Again, Biden is responsible for an untold number of hardships, injuries, assaults and deaths because of his policies. He is again violating his constitutional oath to keep America safe from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The criminals who embed in the caravans are enemies of the state.
Perhaps, Biden and the Democrats do not consider the drug cartellians and other criminals as enemies of the state. After all, it is the folks in the communities that are paying the price for his policies. Those folks are physically and psychologically far from Biden’s privileged and insulated establishment environment in Washington.
In Part Three, we will deal with the third area in which Biden and the Democrats are failing in their primary duty – to protect the American people.
So, there ‘tis.