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January 28, 2024

President Biden is in a pickle of his own making, and his efforts to deal with it are as idiotic and destructive as his open borders policy has been.

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Last month alone over 300,000 mostly military age men illegally crossed our border, with the Border Patrol tasked to easing their invasion and even making them sandwiches rather than detaining and deporting them. Texas governor Greg Abbott directed his National Guard to obstruct their passage by placing floats in the river at the border and installing barbed wire topped fences at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas. He also spread the misery the border states were feeling by transporting many of the illegal crossers to cities that had virtue signaled they were “sanctuary cities,” cities that would not turn over illegals to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for detention and deportation. Now, those same cities — which apparently thought El Paso was better able to handle housing and feeding and providing medical care for millions of largely needy military-aged men than they were — are begging for help and federal money as they are overwhelmed by the task they dreamed would be shouldered by the border states.

Polls show that the majority of citizens are strongly opposed to this invasion. Former FBI officials have warned that this influx of unvetted invaders from around the world who have been allowed to travel freely around the country pose a serious national security threat. Still, the President, who blocked further construction of the wall Trump was constructing and ended the Trump policy of making asylum seekers stay in Mexico as their claims were processed, doubled down on allowing unlimited free passage into the United Sates. He demanded that Abbott tear down the border barriers. A federal court enjoined the Administration from removing the barriers to free passage into the country. (Most of these asylum claims lack merit, but it takes years to process during which time the applicants are living and working here.) “Border Patrol is being instructed to facilitate illegal entry at scale into the United States. The fundamental problem is that anyone can claim asylum with zero proof, which means all of Earth can come to America.”

The Administration sought relief from the Supreme Court and got it: The District Court injunction was lifted. 

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Abbott continued nevertheless to fortify the barriers. Governors of 26 states wrote in support of Abbott’s actions, some even have sent National Guardsmen and other law enforcement to help Texas defend the border. 

Nothing, it seems, will stop Biden from pursuing this unpopular, and in my mind, illegal policy. This week, the Administration placed its hopes on a negotiated deal with Congress, tying an immigration “fix” with aid to Ukraine and Israel. Some Senate Republican poohbahs might be amenable but it doesn’t appear the House will go along with any such thing. To date no one knows what the specifics are except that the Democrats at the outset declared “off limits” any discussion about completing the wall. There’s been a perfectly good immigration law on the books for years which was passed by the House and Senate. It simply needs to be enforced, not ignored.

The open border administration is floundering between trying to satisfy more moderate voters (which unfortunately for Democrats includes many of the minority voters in their base who are most deleteriously affected by an open border policy) and its far-left youth faction. 

First, they had the Department of Homeland Security demand access to Shelby Park, to remove the invasion barriers. Texas attorney general Ken Paxton made some counter-demands:

“By February 15, DHS must supply the official plat maps and deeds demonstrating the precise parcels to which they claim ownership, an explanation of how Texas is preventing access to those specific parcels, documentation showing that Eagle Pass or Texas ever granted permission for DHS to erect infrastructure that interferes with border security, and proof of Congress empowering DHS to turn a Texas park into an unofficial and illegal port of entry. If the federal government is going to make such claims, it must provide proof.”  

In a sense, I’m sorry DHS won’t be getting access because one picture of them cutting the wire in Shelby Park should insure a Republican landslide victory.