Hallelujah, the border is finally working again: Border Patrol chief Michael Banks announced Thursday that illegal border-crossing attempts have dropped 90% since President Trump took office less than three weeks ago.
Which is the final proof that the Biden crew could’ve gotten the same results anytime in the last four years — had they actually wanted to.
Instead, they fed the nation nonstop nonsense about how the border being “under control” even as they manufactured more ways to speed up illegal entries and created new paths to “legalize” border-jumping, at least as far as their official statistics were concerned.
For the last year, including all during the presidential campaign, Democrats insisted it was all Republicans’ fault, for refusing to pass a supposed “bipartisan” bill (that in fact would’ve made the crisis worse).
Blam: Hours after being sworn in, Trump declared a national emergency at the border, ended “catch and release,” reestablished “Remain in Mexico,” ordered construction on the wall to resume and sent 10,000 US troops to the border to help beef up security.
Within a week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with the full support of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, started rounding up and shipping out illegal migrants busted for vile crimes.
And Trump’s threats moved Mexico (and Canada) to start taking their role in sealing the border at least semi-seriously.
It all sent a clear message: No more winking at border-jumpers; there will be consequences for breaking US law.
Biden could have closed the border down at any time, but chose not to — and to lie about it instead.
Joe could have issued the same executive orders Trump did — or just left in place the Trump policies that were working, instead of tossing them on Day 1.
Border towns, along with cities and suburbs across the nation, paid the price; the border chaos also eased the way for fentanyl smugglers.
Banks clearly laid it out: Border Patrol always knew “how to secure the border,” he said.
“All we needed was a president that was going to empower us . . . and a secretary like Secretary Noem that knows exactly what we need to do to secure the border. “
The Biden team caused the border crisis and intentionally let it go on for four years; Trump ended it bim-bam-boom.
Fixing the border was as easy as putting someone in the White House who actually wanted to fix it.
And no wonder that Americans’ approval of (and trust in) the Democratic Party has cratered to a decades-long low.
