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More than three years after President Biden lifted the Trump administration’s stringent border security measures that kept Americans safe, Mr. Biden has had an epiphany. He suddenly discovered – no doubt, helped along by his dismal poll numbers – that “if the United States doesn’t secure our border, there’s no limit to the number of people who may try to come here.”

Too bad for the American people that President Biden’s open border and catch-and release policies since he took office have placed no limit on the number of illegal immigrants entering the country and making phony asylum claims.

In a desperate effort to spin the yarn that he is tougher than the Republicans in solving the border crisis that he created, President Biden signed an executive order on June 4^th entitled “A Proclamation on Securing the Border.”

President Biden’s executive order invokes the emergency authority he has under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to suspend or limit entry of any or all illegal immigrants into the United States, whom Biden’s executive order refers to simply as noncitizens. “The entry of any noncitizen into the United States across the southern border is hereby suspended and limited” above a specified threshold, the executive order states. For months, President Biden denied that he had such executive authority.

That threshold, which has already been exceeded, is reached when the Secretary of Homeland Security has determined that “there has been a 7-consecutive-calendar-day average of 2,500 encounters or more,” subject to a host of exceptions. The suspension and limitation on entry would be discontinued “14 calendar days after the Secretary makes a factual determination that there has been a 7-consecutive-calendar-day average of less than 1,500 encounters…”

President Biden’s 2500 daily threshold still normalizes the entry of more than 900,000 illegal immigrants per year into the United States. And the exceptions to who will be counted towards meeting the threshold swallow the rule. The exceptions include the following categories of illegal immigrants who will still be admitted into the United States despite the executive order:

Unaccompanied children. Human traffickers bringing these children across the border will still cash in.

Any “noncitizen” who is determined to be a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons. In other words, illegal immigrants claiming they have severely suffered at the hands of human traffickers whom the illegal immigrants paid to smuggle them into the U.S. are not barred from entry by President Biden’s suspension and limitation order. Even if there are no severe crimes that the smugglers committed against an illegal immigrant they are trafficking, there is nothing to stop the illegal immigrant from making up a story claiming such mistreatment.

Any “noncitizen” whom the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through a Custom Border and Patrol (CBP) immigration officer, permits to enter the U.S.“based on the totality of the circumstances” (including for urgent humanitarian reasons) or “operational considerations.” With impeached Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in charge, these vaguely worded exceptions give Secretary Mayorkas plenty of leeway to direct his border agents to wave in far more than 2500 illegal immigrants a day into the country.

Any “noncitizen” who presents at a port of entry pursuant to a pre-scheduled time and place. Since January 2023 through the end of April 2024, more than 591,000 individuals were able to schedule appointments to present at ports of entry to seek asylum, using the Biden administration’s CBP One mobile app. We can expect that number to grow considerably in the coming months as illegal immigrants take advantage of this loophole in Biden’s executive order.

Add to this the 360,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who are flown into the U.S. annually under the Biden administration’s mass parole program. And there will be many more illegal immigrants who seek to evade apprehension, joining the nearly two million got-aways who have infiltrated the country since President Biden took office.

With all the fanfare accompanying President Biden’s tough-sounding immigration enforcement executive order, behind the scenes the Biden administration has been gaming the system for the benefit of illegal immigrants. The New York Post reported that the Biden administration terminated more than 350,000 asylum cases filed by illegal migrants, which has allowed the migrants to stay in the country indefinitely.

“The migrants are under no obligation to leave the US, and once cases are dismissed, the person is no longer monitored by ICE and required to regularly check in with them, unlike those still pursuing asylum claims,” according to the New York Post’s report. Although this amnesty program was supposed to benefit applicants who do not have a criminal record, that is just pie in the sky. “If the migrants, [whom] ICE no longer controls or monitors, commit crimes after the dismissal, ICE will have to start all over and issue a new Notice to Appear in court and start the clock all over again,” an ICE official told the New York Post.

President Biden’s June 4^th “Proclamation on Securing the Border” is being promoted by his supporters as a serious effort to secure the border by stopping the surge of illegal immigrants entering the United States. In reality, however, it is still business as usual at the southern border. During the first full day in which President Biden’s executive order was in effect, Border Patrol agents apprehended about 4,000 illegal immigrants between ports of entry at the southern border. Many of them, including from Communist China, crossed the border into California. Just in the San Diego sector alone on June 5th, CBP data cited by Fox News national correspondent Griff Jenkins shows that over 1000 illegal immigrants were released into the United States. “Mass catch & release continues,” Mr. Jenkins posed on X.

The president’s “Proclamation on Securing the Border” executive order is nothing more than a political stunt full of smoke and mirrors. It resembles an arsonist’s use of a garden hose to put out a devastating fire, which the arsonist ignited in the first place.