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U.S.-Mexico border security and broader immigration concerns remain key priorities for many Americans following the failure of a bipartisan border reform bill to advance through Congress. Legislators and President Biden blamed the MAGA camp for sabotaging that bill in its final stages, accusing Trump of deliberately sinking the bill so that he could campaign on a tougher border stance in the upcoming elections.
Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker rejects that assessment and insists that President Biden is to blame, saying that his administration has failed since day one when it comes to border security and immigration. Parker indicates that today’s crisis is a result of several years of bad policy and notes that even liberal sanctuary cities are now speaking out against immigration.
Last week, President Biden made a trip to the southern border and once again blamed Republicans in Congress for the problem he created on the first day of his presidency.
Biden immediately stopped construction of a border wall and ended the “Remain in Mexico” policy for migrants who made asylum claims. Instead, he has released millions of migrants into the United States, and many have been enrolled in government benefit programs. This has created a magnet for even more migrants to make the dangerous trip from Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador and many other countries.
Drug cartels have been enriched by trafficking thousands of human beings and deadly fentanyl has been smuggled across the border, killing more than 100,000 Americans.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has sought to secure the border in his state, but the Biden administration has thwarted him every time. Every turn he makes, the Biden administration is either taking him to court or turning things around another way. In order to alleviate the strain on border communities in Texas, Governor Abbott has sent thousands of migrants to sanctuary cities like New York, Chicago and Denver. Well, they said they were sanctuary cities, so now they have the migrants.
