The Federalist By: John Daniel Davidson
In his speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, President Trump said something about illegal immigration that has become obvious since he took office in January: The border crisis under President Biden was a policy the Democrats chose on purpose, and they could have ended it at any time. The argument that Congress needed to pass new legislation to secure the border was always a canard, an excuse to do nothing and let the border crisis fester.
“The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border,” said Trump. “But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.”
Trump is right of course, as events over the past six weeks have demonstrated. But it wasn’t just Democrats who pushed this line during the Biden administration. Last year, Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma introduced a $118-billion “bipartisan” Ukraine and border bill that was touted by the corporate press, Democrats, and the GOP establishment as the only solution to the illegal immigration crisis on the southern border.
We were told by then-Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer that this bill was the only thing that could stem the tide of illegal immigration, which by February 2024 had reached record levels. In December 2023, a jaw-dropping 300,000 illegal immigrants were arrested in a single month, a new record. By this point in Biden’s tenure, millions of illegal aliens had snuck into the country, most of them released into the interior on their own recognizance. It was a crisis that began the day Biden took office and rescinded nearly every border measure Trump had put into place during his first term…
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (thefederalist.com)
Home | Caravan to Midnight (zutalk.com)
