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White House in Denial About Border Crisis
Townhall.com ^ | March 3,2021 | Byron York

Posted on 03/03/2021 3:51:56 AM PST by Kaslin

During the 2020 campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Donald Trump's border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations for 100 days and allow asylum seekers who enter the United States illegally to stay in this country while their cases are considered, rather than wait in Mexico, as Trump required.

It was obvious that Biden's changes would attract a flood of new illegal immigrants. So during the transition, the president-elect tried to lower expectations. In late December, Biden told reporters he would not throw out the Trump program immediately, lest the United States "end up with 2 million people on our border." Instead, Biden said, he would take some time to set up "guardrails" to make sure his new system would work smoothly.

But prospective illegal border crossers still got the message: come to the United States and you can stay. And now, under President Biden, they are not waiting for the new administration to set up "guardrails" to handle them. They are coming right now.

About 78,000 people tried to cross illegally into the U.S. in January, more than double the number from January 2020. In response, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki practically begged would-be illegal crossers not to stay away, but to wait a few weeks or months before illegally crossing. "Now is not the time to come, and the vast majority will be turned away," Psaki said in early February. "Asylum processes at the border will not occur immediately; it will take time to implement."

But the rush continues, with as many as 4,000 people trying each day to cross the border illegally. Many of them are children, and some of the youngest are not accompanied by an adult. The White House hasn't figured out what to do with them. "The number of migrant kids is on pace to exceed the all-time record by 45 percent -- and the administration doesn't have enough beds," Axios reported recently.

Amid it all, the administration has moved into full denial mode. This week Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas insisted there is no crisis at the border. "The answer is no," Mayorkas said at a White House briefing. "I think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing, and we have our resources dedicated to managing it."

A reporter challenged Mayorkas. "Respectfully, sir, though, one of your predecessors, Jeh Johnson [President Obama's Homeland Security Secretary], said that 1,000 illegal border crossings a day constitutes a crisis, that it overwhelms the system. We're at between three and four thousand now, according to CBP officials. So how is this not a crisis?"

There's no crisis at the border, Mayorkas repeated. It's a "challenge." "I have explained that quite clearly," he said. "We are challenged at the border. The men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are meeting that challenge." The Biden administration, he said, is "building the capacity to ... meet our humanitarian aspirations in execution of the president's vision."

In the meantime, Mayorkas, like Psaki before him, asked people currently in Mexico to wait a while before crossing illegally into the United States. "We are not saying, 'Don't come,'" Mayorkas said. "We are saying, 'Don't come now,' because we will be able to deliver a safe and orderly process to them as quickly as possible."

That statement essentially served as the Biden administration's official welcome announcement to those seeking to enter the United States illegally. Don't do it just now, the administration said, because we're still getting everything ready to receive you into this country.

But they're not waiting. And why should they? Many are being allowed to stay right now. The Washington Examiner's Anna Giaritelli recently reported that the Border Patrol released 350 migrants onto the streets in Yuma, Arizona, over the last two weeks. From Giaritelli: "Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls [said] the city lacks the resources, manpower and money to help the hundreds of people who, because Border Patrol lacks space and transportation, cannot be held or taken to Phoenix, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement would normally detain families. Instead, the federal government is releasing families directly into his community, putting the town of 96,000 residents in a predicament."

So the crisis is here, whether the Biden administration will admit it or not. And with Mayorkas' message to potential illegal crossers -- please come, just give us a little time to prepare -- the flow is sure to increase.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: illimmigration; puppetpalace; thepuppetpalace

1 posted on 03/03/2021 3:51:56 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Oh, for bleeps sake.

Denial?!

THIS IS THE PLAN.

Sheesh.


2 posted on 03/03/2021 3:54:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Kaslin
This is how it was BEFORE CHINA's, Germany's and the Vatican's ELECTION STEAL.

Pres. Trump: "Do Not Try Us" [click for megacomfy]




3 posted on 03/03/2021 3:57:30 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: Kaslin

They’re finding they have Covid...and God knows what else.


4 posted on 03/03/2021 3:58:38 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Kaslin

In denial about thinking they won an election


5 posted on 03/03/2021 3:59:27 AM PST by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco (I love liberals. They taste like chicken.)
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To: Kaslin

Swell, thousands of new welfare addicts every day.

None seem to have marketable skills, but for the hookers...


6 posted on 03/03/2021 4:09:53 AM PST by W. (Autocorrect must die! How do I kill it?!)
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To: Sacajaweau

And just as some states are relaxing their Covid restrictions..


7 posted on 03/03/2021 4:10:19 AM PST by lilypad
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To: Kaslin
Joe Biden is sitting on a monumental pile of sh*t.

It stinks to high heaven.

But according to Geriatric Joe, he is sitting on a golden throne, not on a pile of sh*t.

Now Psaki is telling the nation that the huge pile of sh*t is not sh*t!

Hey, it smells like sh*t,

looks Like sh*t

and soon Geriatric Joe will have to say it tastes like sh*t, because the real world is about to shove a handful in past his geriatric partial plate.

Move along now says the MSM propaganda machine as thousands of Covid carrying illegal aliens enter our nation..

Nothing to see here!

The Demographic warfare against the People proceeds apace.

The sh*t pile is indeed huge, and the People will soon spread the manure around the feet of Psaki and Stealer Joe's illegal presidency at the lidded White Hut.


8 posted on 03/03/2021 4:10:41 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: mewzilla

Self-inflicted and entirely avoidable damage, nobody feels much pity for poor, old, severely challenged Joe Stolen. Or for his handlers, who may be criminally responsible.


9 posted on 03/03/2021 4:19:29 AM PST by alloysteel (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.)
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To: Kaslin

Another example of how clueless our side is.

The WH is NOT in denial. The WH is implementing a plan very effectively, and our side deflects the evil intent by our failure to see it for what it is, or to say what it is.


10 posted on 03/03/2021 4:25:01 AM PST by Gratia
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To: Sacajaweau

Sooner or later one will bring in Ebola


11 posted on 03/03/2021 4:26:38 AM PST by Josa
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To: Kaslin

Since this is what they wanted, why in the world would they see it as a crisis? This is just voter recruitment for them.


12 posted on 03/03/2021 4:33:03 AM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: lilypad

Also part of the plan. When Texas spikes again they will drag Abbott. And ignore the fact that thousands of illegals, tested or not have flooded in.


13 posted on 03/03/2021 4:37:25 AM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: Kaslin
About 78,000 people tried to cross illegally into the U.S. in January, more than double the number from January 2020.

Well here we are in March and I expect that's doubled or soon will. And will certainly increase a whole lot with temperatures changing.

The flood will turn into a uncontrollable tsunami.


14 posted on 03/03/2021 5:11:51 AM PST by caww
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To: Kaslin
During the 2020 campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Donald Trump's border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations for 100 days and allow asylum seekers who enter the United States illegally to stay in this country while their cases are considered, rather than wait in Mexico, as Trump required. It was obvious that Biden's changes would attract a flood of new illegal immigrants

So why the headline that the "White House is in denial"?

The plan is working exactly as designed. If you write an article that leads with "the White House is in denial" and the subject is anything OTHER THAN Biden's rapidly deteriorating mental state, you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

15 posted on 03/03/2021 5:15:59 AM PST by Jim Noble (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Gratia
The WH is implementing a plan very effectively, and our side deflects the evil intent by our failure to see it for what it is, or to say what it is.

Bingo!

There is not a single positive reason or benefit to the U.S. to open its borders in such a manner.

Has, or even will Biden be invited via the MSM to name a single compelling reason?

Has, or even will Biden be reminded by any R via the MSM of the many serious and obvious reasons to presently monitor and even reduce legal immigration?

The R's aren't just potted plants and need to learn how to take effective political action when Biden appears to be shooting the nation in the foot.

16 posted on 03/03/2021 5:29:47 AM PST by frog in a pot (The voters do the heavy lifting...or not.)
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To: caww

The Dem reaction to that picture:

“Look, Ma, we have oceanfront property!”


17 posted on 03/03/2021 5:38:21 AM PST by MarDav
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To: MarDav

I would love every one of these refugees and illegals diverted to every Congressional Demorats neigborhood.


18 posted on 03/03/2021 5:55:38 AM PST by caww
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To: frog in a pot

Biden sees it as uniting the Southern Hemisphere with the Northern Hemisphere....and that right there is the Globalist Agenda. That we in the states live ‘along side’ other nationalists and their cultures. They do not have to assimilate...we have to adjust to them.


19 posted on 03/03/2021 5:58:31 AM PST by caww
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