In our book, Not Wasting a Crisis, the Lawless Biden Administration, we devote four chapters to our discussion of the absolute chaos created at the Southern Border by the polices of the Biden White House and the then-Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas. In Chapter 19, we quoted from the House Committee on Homeland Security, which stated that “[i]n the final month of FY2023,CBP [Customs and Border Patrol] recorded 269,735 encounters at the Southwest border…[t]he annual numbers proved just as catastrophic. In FY23, CBP recorded more than 2.4 million encounters at the Southwest border and more than 3.2 million encounters nationwide. Just this fiscal year, 169 individuals on the terrorist watchlist were apprehended attempting to enter the country illegally, and at least 1.7 million known gotaways have evaded apprehension since FY2021.”
The Committee’s Report for 2024 is even worse. “Yet again,” the House Committee states, “under President Biden, ‘border czar’ and Vice President Kamala Harris, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the annual border encounter numbers have once again proven to be catastrophic. Since the start of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, CBP has recorded more than 10.8 million encounters nationwide, including more than 8.72 million at the Southwest border. By contrast, CBP recorded around 3 million encounters nationwide, including 2.37 million at the SWB, from FY2017-2020. Nationwide border encounters this fiscal year increased nearly 50 percent compared to FY2021. Of the 2.9 million nationwide encounters in FY2024, nearly half were at ports of entry, while only 15 percent of nationwide encounters were at ports of entry in FY2021. In addition to these encounters, CBP has recorded another roughly 2 million known gotaways since the start of FY2021, roughly four times the number recorded from FY2017-2020.”
If we accept the conventional wisdom that approximately 11 million illegal aliens resided in the United States before 2020, during the Biden Administration’s tenure, that number swelled to more than 20 million people who have invaded and occupy our country.
As we noted in Chapter 22 of Not Wasting a Crisis, “[t]his represents one of the largest invasions in recent history. The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 numbered approximately 160,000 troops, less than the total number of border crossers in any given month during the past two years…[w]hen Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, he used approximately 650,000 troops, which represents less than any average three months of border crossers in either 2022 or 2023. In fact, the invasion of our Southern Border in 2022 and 2023 is larger than Operation Barbarossa in 1941, when Hitler used 3 million troops for his invasion of Russia.” (Citations omitted.)
Much like the Roman Emperor Nero, Mayorkas fiddled while our Southern Border burned down. This is the statement made by the Homeland Security Secretary in April of 2024 in support of his request for an increase in his Department’s budget; “Every day, the 268,000 men and women of the Department of Homeland Security carry out our mission to protect the safety and security of the American people. They protect our shores, harbors, skies, cyberspace, borders, and leaders….The dedicated public servants of DHS deserve full support, and the American people deserve the results a fully resourced DHS can deliver. The funding opportunities outlined in the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget for DHS are critical to meeting both goals… The President’s budget…provides funding for hiring more enforcement personnel and bolstering refugee processing. Our immigration system, however, is fundamentally broken. Only Congress can fix it. Congress has not updated our immigration enforcement laws since 1996 – 28 years ago. And, only Congress can deliver on our need for more border patrol agents, asylum officers and immigration judges, facilities, and technology.”
Notice that one of Mayorkas’ funding priorities was “bolstering refugee processing.” But as we described in Not Wasting a Crisis, almost anyone’s claim of refugee status was accepted without question. “[M]ost illegals,” we wrote in Chapter 22, “claim status as an asylum seeker with a credible fear of persecution if they return home; receive a Notice to Appear in Immigration Court; and are released into our country. And only in the mind of Alejandro Mayorkas is this considered ‘securing the border.’”
Further, Mayorkas claimed that our immigration laws were broken, and that “only Congress can fix it.” This was a mantra chanted by Democrats throughout the Biden years, usually used in support of a comprehensive Immigration Bill, the last version of which “provides DHS emergency authority to summarily remove or prohibit the entry of certain non-U.S. nationals…if DHS encounters an average of 4,000 non-U.S. nationals within a seven-day period…This emergency border authority…may be modified by the President under specified circumstances.”
In other words, this bill, sponsored by Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-CT), would allow thousands of “refugees” to cross the border before the door was closed, and also allow the President (Joe Biden), to modify this “emergency authority,” potentially to allow even more “refugees” to cross the Southern Border.
Judge John Wilson’s (ret.) article concludes tomorrow
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