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As Border Crisis Rages, Democrats Inadvertently Tell On Themselves

Guy Benson
Guy Benson  |  July 25, 2022 10:05 AM

Last month was the worst June in DHS history, on the metric of encounters with illegal migrants at the southern border. It marked the fourth consecutive month of apprehensions over 200,000. Some hacks pretend that this is proof that the border is secure, because all those people were caught. This ignores two obvious points: First, a great many of the apprehended immigrants affirmatively want to get captured because they believe – often correctly – that they'll be processed by US officials and then released into the country. Many of them are flown and bussed to cities of their choosing, thus completing the final leg of the human trafficking process on the cartels' behalf, at taxpayer expense. Talk about incentives.

Second, every month also witnesses tens of thousands of known "got-aways." These are people who are detected crossing into America unlawfully but who are not stopped due to a lack of resources and manpower (see update). There is also an unknowable number of unknown "got-aways" who enter America totally undetected. Since the beginning of last fiscal year, we are approaching 900,000 known got-aways – drawing ever closer to the one million mark with each passing day. A million. A number that is larger than the entire population of the president's home state, as I recently noted on Fox:

During that segment, we focused on complaints from blue city mayors who've been grousing about the financial strains and burdens caused by illegal immigrants arriving in their cities. They blame this problem on Republicans, of course, not the Democratic administration that has opened the floodgates to this crisis through outrageous policies. No, they're upset that they have to deal with even a tiny fraction of the dysfunction that has been roiling border states and communities for many months. Some of my colleagues have written about such whining from Washington DC's Muriel Bowser and New York City's Eric Adams. It's pretty amazing to hear them lash out after being subjected to only a small taste of the overall crisis and to point fingers at exactly the wrong culprits. Meanwhile, the Biden White House has also denounced the government of Texas for sending busloads of illegal immigrants straight to the nation's capital: 


What's "shameful" about it? Please tell us, specifically. I don't think she can answer that question in a serious or meaningful way. It's pure deflection, signaling that people should be angry at the other party. Just don't think too hard about why. This, as the president's Homeland Security chief continues to insist that the border is secure, which is laughably insulting: 

Border Patrol officials are blasting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for claiming the southern border of the US is “secure,” calling it a “lie” as the nation just shattered the record for most border stops in a single year.  “Look, the border is secure,” Mayorkas insisted during the Aspen Security Forum on Tuesday. “We are working to make the border more secure. That has been a historic challenge.”  While a total of 1,746,119 migrant encounters have been recorded in FY 2022 — which began in October — as of June, the secretary pointed fingers at lawmakers for the historic numbers.  “I have said to a number of legislators who expressed to me that we need to address the challenge at the border before they pass legislation and I take issue with the math of holding the solution hostage until the problem is resolved,” he said.

There is no doubt that Congress could and should do more to help mitigate this mess, though the ruling party is positively allergic to focusing on enforcement. But Team Biden immediately dumped a series of successful Trump-era policies that had helped control the flow of illegal migration upon taking office. They bear primary responsibility for the unfolding disaster, and they can't spin things otherwise. The president is deep underwater on the issue, earning a dreadful (-27) in the latest Fox News poll. And on and on it goes: 


I'll leave you with another gleaming monument to "progressive" governance: 

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UPDATE - More whining from Adams: 


UPDATE II -