It’s no surprise that the Biden administration’s handling of the current surge in illegal immigration along the U.S. southern border has been a disaster. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been at the helm of this fiasco, and the policies he’s implemented have been widely panned by border state lawmakers, who are now demanding he “pivot” how he is handling the situation.
In a letter to Mayorkas, 11 Texas GOP lawmakers — led by freshman Rep. Morgan Luttrell — noted that there has been a record level of illegal immigration during the Biden administration and under Mayorkas’ leadership, arguing it unfairly burdens Texas.
These lawmakers accused Mayorkas of willfully failing to maintain border security and violating the Secure Fence Act of 2006, a federal law which requires the DHS secretary to secure the nation’s international land and maritime borders.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources have reported that the number of migrant encounters in December surpassed 250,000 for the first time on record. That is in addition to more than 70,000 “gotaways” at the border in December alone. FY 2022 as a whole saw nearly 600,000 getaways – illegal immigrants who slipped past Border Patrol agents.
It’s clear from those numbers that something is seriously wrong. But instead of addressing the real issue – the Biden administration’s refusal to enforce immigration laws – the administration has instead blamed poverty, corruption and climate change for fueling the crisis, and is seeking to expand legal pathways for asylum.
What a f*cking joke.
It’s time the Biden administration takes responsibility for its own incompetence and stop blaming everyone else for its own failures. The real issue is that the administration has no real interest in securing our borders, and this is evidenced by their refusal to implement President Trump’s border policies that led to the most secure border in 30 years.
If the Biden administration wants to fix this mess, they must give our border patrol and customs agents the funding they need and update our decades-old immigration laws to incentivize legal immigration and disincentivize illegal immigration.
We can only hope now that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has put Georgia Rep Majory Taylor Green on the Homeland security committee that she uses her position to boot this sucker out. The GOP has filed early articles of impeachment, so it’s pretty likely now.