Chaos on the border and mass illegal immigration were policy outcomes the Biden administration chose on purpose.
One of the first things President Donald Trump did after being sworn in at the inauguration Monday was sign a series of executive orders on immigration and the border. A few of them stand out because they demonstrate how the border could have been secured at any point over the past four years by the Biden administration, without any action or new legislation from Congress.
That it wasn’t is a testament to the fact that Biden and the Democrats wanted mass illegal immigration, they wanted chaos on the southern border, and they wanted the Mexican drug cartels to be empowered and enriched. These were outcomes they intentionally chose, over and against border security and the historic low levels of illegal immigration they inherited from the first Trump administration.
Here’s what Trump did. First, he declared an emergency at the border and ordered the U.S. military to immediately resume construction of the border wall, which Biden had abruptly halted upon taking office (so abruptly, in fact, that construction materials were simply left on site or abandoned when Biden ordered work on the wall to cease).
As part of the emergency declaration, Trump also ordered U.S. troops to be deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border under U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM). These troops, together with the National Guard, will work to prioritize U.S. territorial integrity “by repelling forms of invasion, including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking and other criminal activities,” according to incoming administration officials.
Trump also ordered an immediate end to the use of the CBP One app that the Biden administration had used to dole out mass paroles for illegal border-crossers — some 30,000 a month under Biden. As of Monday afternoon, the app was switched off and all pending appointments were canceled. Paroling illegal immigrants is a policy the Biden administration took to unprecedented highs. What was supposed to be a rare policy used on a case-by-case basis was, under Biden, applied to entire classes of illegal immigrants and then codified in the CBP One app as a mechanism for what amounted to a mass catch-and-release policy.
