OPINION:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blasted Joe Biden in a hand-delivered letter, telling the president during his first U.S.-Mexico border trip since taking over the White House that he’s reneged on his duties to Americans while outright emboldening drug and human traffickers.
Biden indeed has been the cartel’s best friend.
“U.S. border authorities encountered more than 2 million migrants, some of whom repeatedly tried to cross the border, in fiscal year 2022,” CNN wrote in October, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. “The new data shows a marked increase from fiscal year 2021 when there were more than 1.7 million encounters.”
If there’s one thing this administration does best, it’s allow in the illegals.
Even Biden-fawning media outlets like CNN have to acknowledge that.
“The number of undocumented immigrant crossings at the southwest border for fiscal year 2022 topped 2.76 million, breaking the previous annual record by more than 1 million,” NBC News wrote, also in October.
Biden’s team of open border yahoos set the record for illegal crossings. Then they broke their own record and set a new one. Yay, team Biden.
“I’m calling on Biden to do his constitutional duty to protect our nation,” Abbott tweeted.
Yes. That’d be nice. The rest of America — the ones who favor law and order and support the sovereignty of our nation, that is — but the rest of sane, America-loving America calls on Biden to do the same.
Will he listen?
Probably not.
But Abbott’s letter puts it well, regardless.
“Your visit to our southern border with Mexico,” he wrote, “is $20 billion too little and two years too late. Moreover, your visit avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies.”
How convenient.
“Under President Trump,” Abbott went on, “the federal government achieved historically low levels of illegal immigration. Under your watch, by contrast, America is suffering the worst illegal immigration in the history of our country.”
For further info, see CNN. See NBC.
“Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings,” Abbott continued.
And that’s the worst of it, really.
Biden’s failure to address something that in this day and age, with the advances in technology and the will of the American people and the money that Congress can flow as it wishes — with all that and more — that is really remarkably easy to achieve, that is to say, border control, cannot be pure incompetence. It has to be something more. It has to be purposeful intent.
Biden could control the border if he wanted.
Hire more agents. Equip more agents. Embolden more agents to do what they were hired to do. Build more wall. Tap into more surveillance technology. Unleash an uncompromising set of bullet points from the federal stage that starts with this: Do not come. Uphold law. Uphold order.
There are many, many ways to uphold border controls — none of which are overly complicated.
That Biden pretends otherwise only shows his true vision with border policy is to eventually shift the demographics of America to lean more illegals, more foreigners, more socialist-seeking and communist-loving.
That is his hope.
That is his dream.
That is where the Democrats want to go.
And once the scales have been too far tipped, it’s aces for America. It’s very difficult to put the socialist and Marxist and communist back in the box, once it’s been opened.
“On behalf of all Americans,” Abbott wrote, “I implore you: Secure our border by enforcing Congress’s immigration laws.”
The tools to suppress the tide of illegals flowing into America are already available. Biden just has to choose to pick them up and use them.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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