Border patrol agents arrested about 168,000 people crossing the southern border in March, a record high in 20 years. Yet neither President Joe Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris, to whom he heads the “root causes” of the migrant wave, have deigned to visit the border – or indeed have done anything to address the crisis, including the crisis. ” main causes.” Obviously, they just don’t care.
Biden’s “border czar” admitted last month that the government has been sending “mixed messages” to migrants. Was that genuine frustration part of the reason she announced her resignation on Friday, less than three months after her tenure?
Central Americans do not seem to find the reports at all mixed: The number of encounters with illegal migrants at the border increased by more than 71 percent from February to March, as Biden’s policy say “Come in!” His first day in office ordered the prez to build all the walls on the border and to pause for 100 days for deportations.
And he hasn’t looked back, despite the record numbers of migrants and, worse, unaccompanied minors in federal custody. His 2022 budget plan calls for a 16 percent increase in domestic spending, but not a penny on border security.
The one step Team Biden has even considered is sending cash to Central Americans to keep them where they are. It offered no details, with the now outgoing Tsar Roberta Jacobson simply saying, “All I can promise you is that the US government will not hand out money or checks to people.” Still, most of the aid America has sent to the region has gone to corrupt governments – why does Biden think his money will somehow change the game?
Taxpayers are already spending more than $ 60 million a week for the 16,500 unaccompanied minors in custody. Biden and Harris called the facilities where they lived inhumane when Donald Trump was in the White House, but their administration has a record number of children in custody. Their policies only encourage families to send their children on the dangerous journey. Smugglers literally dropped a 3- and a 5-year-old across the border, and yet the pair are doing nothing to discourage the practice.
But, of course, they cannot address the “root causes” of the wave without admitting that their own policies play a major role. Expect it to get worse.