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‘No end in sight’: Inside the Biden administration’s failure to contain the border surge
Washignton Post ^ | Mar. 21, 2021 | Ashley Parker

Posted on 03/21/2021 4:48:06 AM PDT by Rennes Templar

Shortly before Christmas last year, Susan Rice and Jake Sullivan, two top advisers to President-elect Joe Biden, sat for an interview with EFE, a Spanish wire service, to issue a stark warning to migrants considering journeying north to the nation’s southern border: Don’t come now — but help is on the way.

The next day, Biden was similarly pointed, saying his administration — while eager to roll back Donald Trump’s immigration policies — first needed to implement “guardrails” to avoid winding up with “2 million people on our border.”

Less than a month later, the new president began tearing down some of the guardrails himself. He issued five immigration executive orders on Inauguration Day alone and promised an immigration policy far more humane and welcoming than that of his predecessor. His administration also began allowing unaccompanied minors into the country, a marked departure from the Trump administration’s approach.

Now, the Biden administration is scrambling to control the biggest surge in 20 years, with the nation on pace for as many as 2 million migrants at the southern border this year — the outcome Biden said he wanted to avoid.

Along with the existing struggle to combat the coronavirus, immigration has emerged as one of the administration’s most urgent challenges — seized on by Republicans as a political cudgel, posing risks to Democrats in the 2022 midterms and potentially undermining Biden’s governing agenda. The issue also threatens to overshadow the president’s recent political victories in passing a $1.9 trillion covid relief package and making rapid strides in vaccination efforts.

The situation at the border — which Biden and his advisers steadfastly refuse to call a crisis — is the result of an administration that was forewarned of the coming surge, yet still ill-prepared and lacking the capacity to deal with it.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
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WaPo getting the the bus ready. Kamala will fix the problem, right?
1 posted on 03/21/2021 4:48:06 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: Rennes Templar

Our enemies are seizing advantage fr the bumbling fools across the board. China, Russia, Cartels, Korea Slipping Joe is unfit and his entire administration is a gaggle of leftist idiots pushing their pet agendas at the expense of our nation.


2 posted on 03/21/2021 5:00:13 AM PDT by databoss
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No. It’s all Trump’s fault. He was so mean./s


3 posted on 03/21/2021 5:04:15 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all they time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: Rennes Templar

“Humane”. I don’t think they know what that word means.

L


4 posted on 03/21/2021 5:21:32 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Rennes Templar

The article, in spite of what criticism it does offer, still tries as hard as it can to not blame Biden.


5 posted on 03/21/2021 5:21:48 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Rennes Templar

Or as Xiden calls her, President Harris. Effin idiot pos


6 posted on 03/21/2021 5:35:32 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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FAILURE to contain the surge??? Yet another lie from the Amazon Compost....not that that surprises anyone.

It should read REFUSAL to contain the surge. Or,better still,their ENCOURAGEMENT of the surge!!!!

7 posted on 03/21/2021 5:42:32 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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This is all serades. Why hasn’t the governor of texas sent the national gaurd to the border? The enemy is using children, how sick is that? Afraid of how it will look when the shooting starts? Throw a few concussion grenades, light up the crossing points at night,.build the wall. Or send in my HOA to govern the area.


8 posted on 03/21/2021 5:52:46 AM PDT by Ikeon (do me a big favor, could you look down this barrel and see if you can see a bullet in there? )
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“‘No end in sight’: Inside the Biden administration’s failure to contain the border surge”

Failure to contain?

In order to “fail”, you first have to TRY!

Not only are they not “trying to contain”, they are doing everything they can to encourage and prevent containment.

They want as many illegals as possible to work their collective farms.

I have ALWAYS said that the number one and root cause of ALL of our problems is the FAKE MEDIA.


9 posted on 03/21/2021 5:53:18 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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Cloward-Piven.


10 posted on 03/21/2021 6:08:49 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Political correctness prevents problem solving.


11 posted on 03/21/2021 6:12:40 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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“No end in sight’: Inside the Biden administration’s failure to contain the border surge..”

They don’t want to contain it. Just the opposite.


12 posted on 03/21/2021 6:21:02 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Rennes Templar
Dreamers.


13 posted on 03/21/2021 6:26:00 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: databoss

The ChiComJoe kakistocracy is guilty of giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. The RINOcrats are complicit in such treason.


14 posted on 03/21/2021 6:35:46 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Rennes Templar

It’s not a failure - it’s a feature.


15 posted on 03/21/2021 6:48:09 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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is the result of an administration that was forewarned of the coming surge, yet still ill-prepared and lacking the capacity to deal with it.

Forewarned? The administration CAUSED the surge.

16 posted on 03/21/2021 6:49:00 AM PDT by libertylover (Many people who want to destroy us have bumper stickers on their cars that say: "Coexist".)
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To: Rennes Templar

Yep, this is exactly what El Presidente and his comrades want.


17 posted on 03/21/2021 6:52:05 AM PDT by Colo9250 (Name the rat that assassinated Ashli Babbitt now! )
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To: Rennes Templar

Right back to the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)

This IS why BOTH parties cheated Trump out.


18 posted on 03/21/2021 6:53:45 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Rennes Templar
Democrats are bottomless pit failures, they only carry respect among their own, destroying western civilization, and only propped up by a corrupt Swamp, media, and their violent political mobs.
19 posted on 03/21/2021 6:54:57 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Ikeon

The By-dumb administration is facilitating the trafficking of children. How is that any less heinous than Epstein’s crimes?


20 posted on 03/21/2021 7:11:56 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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