OPINION:
President Biden has made a remarkable concession to China — our main supplier of fentanyl, cyber thefts, global trade cheaters, and a killer virus — that the United States is not interested in containing the communist expansionist regime.
We can understand why Mr. Biden would issue such a guarantee on Sept. 10 amid G20 world leaders. He is the best U.S. president China has ever bought. In a 2011 speech in China, as vice president, as son Hunter was going in and out of the country hunting cash, Mr. Biden pledged to incorporate its communists into nearly every aspect of American life, including boardrooms and schools.
What is puzzling about Mr. Biden’s across-the-board global appeasement of bad people is his surrender here at home — his policy not to contain China’s key anti-American ally, the Mexican drug cartels.
Right across our border, the cartels run a billion-dollar industry based on inserting as much misery as possible into American life. It’s not just Chinese-provided fentanyl.
Cartels look at people as commodities. They make a fortune per head smuggling migrants, including children, for the sex and slave trade. As enforcers, the cartels field sizable armies equipped with armored vehicles and various weapons. They routinely commit mass murder.
What clear-thinking president would ever willingly, without conscience, open America to narco armies a few miles away?
From his White House start in 2021, Mr. Biden’s No. 1 domestic goal was to open the cartel’s gateway. As a candidate, he encouraged a border “surge.” The Heritage Foundation has traced the step-by-step policy changes in 2021-22 that turned border enforcement into border processing for currently over 5 million illegal immigrants now joining the American urban homeless.
Mr. Biden’s endgame is purely cynical — more Democratic Party voters and a willingness to accept collateral damage.
He is helped by the fact that the Washington liberal media supports him. And so does Mr. Open Borders George Soros, the Democrats’ top donor.
You have to read conservative and local media to understand the full destruction unvetted illegal immigrants are causing to our cities and their resources.
A new report from the House Homeland Security Committee’s Republican majority lays out exactly what has happened to our country.
As its title spells out (“DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Has Emboldened Cartels, Criminals, and America’s Enemies”), the report is a frontal attack on a hapless bureaucrat.
Mr. Biden’s open border policies, the Republican report says, “have empowered and emboldened some of the most vicious, ruthless, and savage individuals and groups in the world.”
“The cartels are the most vicious, evil organizations in the Western Hemisphere, with operations that include a number of illicit activities — drug trafficking, human smuggling, and human trafficking chief among them.”
The report adds: “These groups maintain substantial control in Mexico, with the two largest and most powerful cartels — Sinaloa and CJNG — actively operating in the majority of Mexico’s 32 states. The cartels are the leading suppliers of drugs to the United States, with Sinaloa and CJNG responsible for most of the illicit fentanyl entering the country.”
The House report quotes John Modlin, a regional chief Border Patrol agent, as saying, “What I see in Tucson Sector, in my experience, is that no one crosses the border in Tucson Sector without going through the cartels.”
Republicans lay the blame on the White House and its chief anti-Border Patrol agent, Mr. Mayorkas. He seems to take pride in his Bidenesque misleading of Americans into thinking the border is secure. He knows his mission: Cram America with as many illegal migrants as possible. Change the red states to blue states.
“Multiple factors have enabled the cartels’ unprecedented seizure of control at the Southwest border — and they can all be traced back to President Joe Biden and Mayorkas’ open-borders policies,” the House report states. “First, Mayorkas and Biden’s reversal of the effective border security policies of the previous administration, as well as the host of policies they have subsequently implemented, have encouraged millions of individuals to make the journey to the Southwest border in hopes of being released into the United States.”
In other words, flood the border with so many illegals that it turns border police into processors.
To date, the end result is 5 million multinational migrants who have crossed illegally, including 1.5 million who escaped any scrutiny. “Getaways,” they are called. Who knows where they are today or what they are doing?
In Vietnam for the G20 summit, Mr. Biden made this surrender to China, essentially giving Taiwan to communists.
“And so, really, what this trip was about — it was less about containing China. I don’t want to contain China. I just want to make sure that we have a relationship with China that is on the up and up, squared away, everybody knows what it’s all about. … It’s not about containing China; it’s about having a stable base — a stable base in the Indo-Pacific. … I want to see China succeed economically, but I want to see them succeed by the rules.”
No mention of China’s fentanyl, computer theft, or the Wuhan lab-leaked coronavirus that China covered up as it killed millions.
Eleven years earlier, visiting China as vice president, Mr. Biden sent out this invitation: “In order to cement this robust partnership, we have to go beyond close ties between Washington and Beijing, which we’re working on every day, go beyond it to include all levels of government, go beyond it to include classrooms and laboratories, athletic fields and boardrooms.”
Mr. Biden does not need to make such a pointed concession speech for the cartels. They know his actions speak louder than words.
• Rowan Scarborough is a columnist with The Washington Times.
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