Since the beginning of the Biden administration, border communities have been ground zero for the worst immigration crisis in U.S. history. Each day across our entire southern border, thousands of migrants willfully break our laws with no end in sight. Hundreds of thousands more have slipped into our country undetected. Nearly 100 terrorism suspects have been stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in 2022. Cartels are more enriched and emboldened than ever, and Americans have never been more vulnerable to deadly fentanyl and criminal actors flowing into our country.
Unfortunately, the Biden administration has proven on multiple occasions to have little interest in upholding the rule of law and securing our southern border. Throughout their term, they have done nothing but reverse Trump-era policies, empower cartels, and put Americans in danger.
In contrast, under President Trump, constituents in my community felt safe to let their kids play in their backyards. High speed chases, drug busts, and property damages were few and far between. Border Patrol agents were not overworked. This is because President Trump put America first and prioritized border security. He worked hard and implemented a fool-proof, robust border security agenda to make sure the border crisis was solved, and the results spoke for themselves. Bottom line: Trump’s border policies worked.
The first step in returning order to the southern border is border security. Modeled after Trump’s border security plan, we must prioritize using Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to their fullest extent, ending catch and release, and constructing barriers in key locations along the border.
With deportations plummeting nearly 70 percent since 2020 when President Trump left office, it is crystal clear that the Biden administration has done everything to abandon its mission to enforce our immigration laws. One of President Biden’s first actions was to issue a 100-day moratorium on deportations, followed by new ICE guidelines that granted immunity to most of the undocumented population. This is a massive pull factor that has resulted in a record of 2.4 million apprehensions at our southern border.
The Biden administration has also placed a record number of migrants in the Alternatives to Detention program, also known as “catch and release,” which is a way to monitor asylum-seekers without having to incarcerate them. However, out of 104,171 migrants who were issued a notice to report (NTR) to ICE within 60 days, more than 47,000 failed to show up between March and August of 2021. During Trump’s presidency, migrants were returned back to their country of origin while they waited, making for a more efficient and safe system.
With the Biden administration’s dangerous policies, deadly drugs, weapons, and bad actors are flowing across the southern border. To prevent illegal crossings, Trump constructed over 400 miles of border infrastructure in high traffic areas along the southern border. In turn, illegal crossings decreased by 87 percent in areas where the wall was built.
While securing the border, President Trump also worked to disincentivize illegal immigration. President Trump implemented the Remain in Mexico policy to discourage migrants with unrealistic asylum claims from making the trek to our southern border. Since Biden recklessly stripped away this policy, migrants who claim asylum at our southern border, regardless of the strength of their claims, are provided with a loophole to live in the United States while their cases make their way through a bloated immigration court backlog. Not to mention before it was terminated, they discouraged the enforcement. As of February 2022, DHS reported sending back a total of 410 enrollees, as opposed to 300 returned daily in 2019.
Furthermore, the Biden administration cancelled the Prompt Asylum Claim Review (PACR) which allowed asylum cases to be heard almost immediately, sending those who do not qualify for asylum back to their country of origin within days. When the PACR program was in place under Trump, nearly 40 percent of those who were in the program were in CBP custody for less than a week. Since Biden cancelled this program, wait times have extended to an average of 4.3 years.
My constituents elected me to Congress to put politics aside and deliver real solutions, including securing the southern border right in our backyard. We know what policies have curbed the problem, and which policies have exacerbated them. In Congress right now, border security plans are a dime a dozen. The solution isn’t more plans but reimplementing the Trump border security plan that worked. Only when we acknowledge that President Trump’s solutions have been effective, and we work towards their reimplementation, will we be a step closer to a secure America. I will continue to vigorously fight for the policies that will keep Americans safe.
Democrat policies don’t work for the American people, because the democrats, along with some RINO’s, don’t work for the American people either.
Open Borders leads to a mess tall those with those stupid yard signs reading NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL should sponsor a family of illegal aliens for a whole year
Joe Biden is Puyi and the USofA is Manchuko.
Eighty-one Million Vote Joe couldn’t be more into the Chinese pocket if the CCP were a mother kangaroo, and Joe her joey.
“Catch and release” is a farcical and indefensible joke of an immigration policy. There is no other country on Earth that engages in the manifestly self-destructive and delusional stupidity of releasing illegal aliens into the interior of the country, encumbered only by a totally unenforceable command to appear in court, at a future date.
And, the asylum application process is being totally gamed by Dumb-o-crat attorneys and illegal aliens who know how to exploit and abuse the system, for their personal benefit.
What proportion of asylum claims are NOT fraudulent?
Does it approach one percent?
And our government is encouraging them to do so? Online, to facilitate the volume?
is Biden contractually obligated himself to our national destruction?
And the media is completely incurious?
Oh really. A 10 year old is right on immigration.
Nut much to add to the previous comments except for this. Can anyone imagine what this means for the future of the country? And removing any of these illegals will be next to impossible. And the media and government never report the truth about the damage done to the country.
That subversive, Un- American impostor “president “ Joe Biden got into the White House Oval Office and ruined everything and likewise wrecked all the good that President Trump had accomplished.
Secure strong borders was a great achievement of President Trump. The tragic reality is that also very dangerous
Furthermore, President Trump understands the need for a good strong US/Mexican border control, likewise he cares. In contrast Biden doesn’t care at all the safety of the American people and is probably is intentionally attempting to harm America. Those porous borders are really an invitation jihad operatives for Iran and jihadists of Hezbollah and Hamas as well as jihadists of al Qaeda and ISIS to enter the United States an inflect mass murder , destruction and mayhem upon the US.
In conclusion, Joe Biden and those who uphold him in power and dangerous treacherous subversive villains of the must horrendous sort that there can possibly be.
After that hoax of an election, fraud that reeks of the corruption of voter fraud, which no doubt Biden had his sinister hand in with his scheme to make himself President.
Now after that hoax of an election that reeks of the corruption of voter fraud, which no doubt Biden had his sinister hand in with his scheme to make himself President.
When after pseudo “president “ Joe Biden had gotten into the White Hose Oval Office this has and to still further harming the United States.
In every way from wrecking the US economy to destroying the US /Mexican border security control system and thus creating a heinously vile sex and drug trafficking in America and opening the door for murderous criminal gangs ,as MS13, to enter in the US as well as dangerous jihadists as those of ISIS and al Qaeda.
The insanity of it all. Every felon, criminal, and drug dealer, or human trafficker is coming into America because of not enforcing border laws. Then the policies of this administration demands that we give up any protection to defend ourselves under the Constitution, and be overcome by lawlessness. This is the strategy of the New World Order to bring us down. Complete meltdown of law and order.
So true! Here’s more of what’s going on all along the border, from Calexico, California to Yuma and Nogales, Arizona, and into El Paso, Eagle Pass, Zepeda, McAllen, and Brownsville, Texas.
http://matrixgazette.com/homeland-security-on-the-border-with-mexico/
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