Post-Title 42 border security is an affront to American sovereignty
OPINION:
When it comes to our southern border, President Biden has done the bidding of one entity, and it sure isn’t the United States. It’s the Mexican drug cartels.
Under Mr. Biden’s watch, our southern border has become little more than an arbitrary line on a map. In the past two years of the Biden administration, we have seen a record 7 million illegal crossings. To put that into perspective: Under Mr. Biden, a number of illegal migrants equivalent to the entire population of Arizona have crossed our southern border illegally. Meanwhile, Mexican cartels have seen record profits as Americans scramble to contend with the fallout of Mr. Biden’s border policies.
Border Patrol agents have been swamped with catching and processing migrants who have entered the country illegally. While the agents can typically handle 2,000 to 3,000 migrant encounters per day, with a maximum of 5,000, there have been, on average, nearly 6,000 attempted crossings per day since Mr. Biden has been in office. Last week, we saw a peak of 10,000 encounters per day.
Before the pandemic, under President Donald Trump, we saw a record-low number of illegal border crossings. Our posture on border security matters, as clearly demonstrated by what we saw thanks to Trump-era policies such as Remain in Mexico, which ensured that Customs and Border Protection processed migrants’ asylum claims while they waited in Mexico. But what will happen now that Mr. Biden has ended Title 42? …
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