“The truth of the matter is, nothing has changed.” – Joe Biden, March 25, 2021
We know what you’re thinking. Why waste any time on Joe Biden? Who cares about him anymore? Well, you should, since the nation will be cleaning up Biden’s messes for years to come.
And one of the biggest was his campaign to usher as many illegal immigrants as possible into the country while lying to the American people about what was going on.
At his first press conference in March 2021 – after claiming that nothing had changed at the border (despite repealing every Trump executive order securing the border on day one) – he said the surge of illegals then underway “happens every single solitary year. There is a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter months of January, February, March. It happens every year … happens all the time.”
Well, now we know that was a lie. Look at the chart below, which shows “encounters” by border patrol agents at the southern border in January of each year since 2017.
What do you notice? They were low under Donald Trump, exploded under Biden, and now are miraculously back down to the levels of the first Trump term.
Throughout Biden’s administration, he claimed border security was a top priority. He named his vice president as border “czar.”
Against all evidence, his Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly lied – often under oath – saying that the border was secure.
Biden later claimed his hands were tied by Republicans who refused to pass a phony border security bill.
We here at I&I knew it was all lies and said so repeatedly over the past four years.
But Biden was under no pressure to admit to his lies – not from elites enjoying low-cost labor, not from Democrats hoping to import new voters, not from the mainstream media, which actively helped Biden cover the lies up.
Now the data are coming in, and as President Ronald Reagan once said, facts are stubborn things.
The sharp drop in illegal border crossings came without a new law or a massive increase in federal spending that Biden wanted. It came, instead, with a few strokes of a pen from President Trump reinstating his border policies, and some stern words backed up by well-publicized enforcement actions.
There is still the question about the millions who traipsed across the border illegally while Biden was putatively in charge of the government. And already, we are seeing the left manufacturer b.s. stories – such as that Trump is deporting Native Americans – to stop his efforts to send even those illegals who commit felonies back from whence they came.
Biden is thankfully gone. But he still needs to answer for his crimes.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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