BY BRYAN PRESTON | PJ Media
AP Photo/Gregory Bull
It’s the federal government’s responsibility to enforce
the nation’s borders. That’s not up for debate; it’s the federal government’s
job. Terrorist groups, drug cartels, human smugglers, and even our global
enemies would love to exploit a weak border if they can. Right now, they can.
It’s the federal government’s job to see to it that they can’t. But the federal
government isn’t doing its job.
Joe Biden flung the southwest border wide open and the
numbers crossing are now overwhelming. Some even have custom T-shirts calling
for Biden to “let us in.”
Gov. Greg Abbott is moving to stem the tide, but one
state — even a large one like Texas — can’t do it while the federal government
just makes the problem worse.
The 2021 numbers are now on pace to outrun the previous
three years — combined.
Biden’s Homeland Security chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, has
responded to all this by calling for “volunteers.” It’s an unserious idea from a
seriously terrible administration.
Mayorkas this week urged DHS staff to join a
“Volunteer Force” to help Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deal with what he
conceded was an “overwhelming” number of migrants at the border, as the
administration scrambles to deal with the escalating crisis.
“You
have likely seen the news about the overwhelming numbers of migrants seeking
access to this country along the Southwest Border,” he said. “President Biden
and I are committed to ensuring our Nation has a safe, orderly, and humane
immigration system while continuing to balance all of the other critical DHS
missions.”
On the face of things, it appears the Biden
administration is committed to undermining all aspects of what makes a nation a
nation.
In a sober time, the Homeland Security secretary would
already be up for firing and the administration would be facing a full-blown
scandal with its open lawlessness, putting impeachment on the table. Biden made
this mess of his own free will with his own rhetoric and executive orders. Plus
we’re in a moment of madness, with an invisible president who hasn’t delivered
a State of the Union and hasn’t even given a solo press conference. CNN tried
to help him mitigate that with its soft-focus townhall in February, but
Americans are noticing that the new president isn’t commenting and
seems not to be leading, perhaps because he’s unable to. His press secretary is
the face of the administration to the world and she’s terrible at her job.
On Tuesday, White House spox Jen Psaki was asked for
numbers of illegal border crossings. She lied in response.
“I would encourage you to go back to them and ask them
again. We’re not going to confirm them from the White House. It’s not our
program,” Psaki claimed. “It’s the Department of Homeland Security.”
The Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet-level
position. Biden appointed Mayorkas to that job. It’s very much the White
House’s program and Psaki should have those numbers. Any good flak would have
them, if for no other reason than to come up with a way to shape the public’s
perception of them. In all likelihood she does have them, she just doesn’t want
to tell the American people what those numbers are, and therefore deflects.
It’s a tactic to avoid accountability.
Psaki’s hacky tactic indicates that there is no good way
to spin this. The numbers are that bad and getting worse.
The Biden numbers could easily be compared to the Trump
numbers, using the White House’s own statement, demonstrating what a disaster
the Biden administration has created and is inflicting on the border states.
Biden has created a nightmare on the border. While some
law-abiding Americans remained locked up due to their states’ approach to the
pandemic, illegal border crossers can test COVID-positive and remain free to
buy a bus ticket and go anywhere in the country they want. Given the sheer
numbers crossing, Biden is creating a COVID super-spreader — and doing nothing
to stop it. He is fostering chaos on the border. The president is willfully putting American lives at risk. A real media would start inquiries by demanding
answers to one simple question: Why?
They would follow that up with “Where the hell is Joe
Biden and what does he have to say about all this?”
