Posted on 01/26/2023 5:48:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security declared victory over the border crisis this week as a result of recent policy changes. They may come to wish they hadn’t.
With Eric Adams and other sanctuary mayors bemoaning the effects on their cities from a tiny sliver of the border surge, the administration responded with Biden’s short drop-in at the border, and certain policy changes. Those measures, billed as “New Border Enforcement Actions,” included applying Title 42 automatic expulsions to border-jumpers from four countries that had been exempt: Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti.
That’s good as far as it goes. The number of people from those four countries arrested crossing the border illegally has reportedly dropped more than 90% over the past week. Illegals from those four countries made up about 38% of all border arrests in December, so if they’re out of the picture then January could see the lowest number of apprehensions since February 2021, when the new administration sparked the border crisis. The Biden-friendly media duly reported this new storyline, and can now go back to ignoring the border.
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Does anyone believe that the border is secure?
The border has not ever been secure. It has just gotten more dangerous. The cartels have operational control of OUR border. I have seen the border conditions since 1980.
Hasn’t been fixed is an understatement akin to calling the War Between the States ‘the Late Unpleasantness’. The United States is being invaded by masses of foreigners in explicit violation of Article 4 of the Constitution, Just like the dem mayors who were in collusion in 2020 to keep their police from enforcing the law as their cities were wrecked so the national government is colluding to allow the invasion of the United States. We are betrayed and the two most basic functions of government, protection of the persons and property of the law abiding and protection of the citizens of the nation from foreign invasion are openly dismissed like used toilet paper. How can any real American ever, ever again have any atom of trust in what the government says or claims. We are BETRAYED.
I have friends from my many years in Tucson. One of them recently explained to me how the cartels have corrupted certain members of the Border patrol, so they can come through the official checkpoints unhindered with their contraband. It’s all very simple actually, and the dedicated border guards feel demoralized and anbandoned by their superiors.
This has been the case since before Biden, and only gotten worse.
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