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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 ...


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To: Rennes Templar
...needed to implement “guardrails” to avoid winding up with “2 million people on our border.”

BS. Typical leftist lie. That is exactly what they want. They want a crisis on the border, they are actively working to make it happen. Then they can claim "We simply must do something to address this humanitarian crisis! How could you be so heartless as to oppose our efforts!" and they'll bring in their red-state destroying, vote-harvesting block and cement their hold on power.

Stop the "crisis" now.

21 posted on 03/21/2021 7:59:50 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: Rennes Templar

So now the Washington Post tells us what we all predicted two years ago. Thanks for nothing.


22 posted on 03/21/2021 8:32:16 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: Rennes Templar

Biden piles “situation” on top of “situation”. Higher and deeper. And falls headfirst into it.


23 posted on 03/21/2021 8:38:58 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
When you lose the Washington Post, you make a couple of phone calls, and suddenly, the Washingto Post loses a reporter.

24 posted on 03/21/2021 8:48:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Rennes Templar

It is only “failure” if one considers orderly legal migration to be the goal. I suspect just a little that it is not the goal of the current Administration.


25 posted on 03/21/2021 9:00:23 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe xv)
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To: Rennes Templar

Two million new Democrat voters? It’s EXACTLY what Biden and Co. desire.

How about 10 million? Or 20?

The GOP will never win another election if this keeps up. Goodbye USA.


26 posted on 03/21/2021 9:03:25 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Rennes Templar
His administration also began allowing unaccompanied minors into the country, a marked departure from the Trump administration’s approach.

Washington and Chicago kiddie whore houses need new 10 year old boys and 6 year old girls for white liberal 'elites' to rape...

Maybe some kind reporter can get the names of a few hundred of these 'minors' and see if they can track them down in two years.

27 posted on 03/21/2021 9:25:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (And at first Jews thought Hitler was only talking about the “bad Jews” and not them- dfwgator.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Yep, it’s also a rat voter drive. No MSM will call it what is.


28 posted on 03/21/2021 9:27:15 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Gay State Conservative
There are now more than 10,000 unaccompanied migrant children in the care of the Department of Health and Human Services, and 5,000 more in the care of Customs and Border Protection, nearly twice the previous record, according to the latest figures obtained by The Washington Post. “When you create a system that incentivizes people to come across, and they are released, that immediately sends a message to Central America that if you come across you can stay,” said ...Rep. Vicente Gonzalez...

The Biden administration's filling up the kiddie whore houses in blue states.... of course it's not their fault... nothing ever is - as any reporter will tell you...

29 posted on 03/21/2021 9:37:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (And at first Jews thought Hitler was only talking about the “bad Jews” and not them- dfwgator.)
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To: GOPJ

I think you are correct. My thoughts also.


30 posted on 03/21/2021 9:49:02 AM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: Bonemaker

Regarding the surge at the border not being a crisis, this is one time the Dems are speaking honestly. In their sick minds the surge is their goal being achieved, and the crisis was when Trump was controlling the illegal entries at the border.


31 posted on 03/21/2021 10:00:59 AM PDT by sijay
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To: Rennes Templar

Everyone who allowed Biden and the DEMs to steal the White House deserve this, especially the keyboard warriors.


32 posted on 03/21/2021 2:42:19 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: NeverTyranny

I can see rational but greedy reasons for white liberal elites to bring in illegals to keep our wages down, to add democrat voters, have cheap nannies and servants - and to destabilize the country... but there aren’t a lot of reasons other than ‘the Epstein style horror’ for creating incentives to bring in young children.


33 posted on 03/21/2021 2:52:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (And at first Jews thought Hitler was only talking about the “bad Jews” and not them- dfwgator.)
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To: Ikeon

Or send in my HOA to govern the area.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3943886/posts

These guys??


34 posted on 03/21/2021 7:04:54 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: faucetman

Biden Administration caused Crisis at the Border
https://youtu.be/Q2hS4xCbgsU


35 posted on 03/21/2021 7:22:30 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: databoss

Rice is the traitor in the bunch. An Obamite liar and deflector. I would put her on a CIA/FBI “watchlist” because of her background and her activities against America.

Don’t know much about Sullivan but his reputation her at FR is that he’s a leftist bastard who will sell out his country at the bidding of his masters Obama/Biden/Harris.

Need more information on his background and associations to make a really informed opinion, but if Obama/Biden trust him, then he’s no good for America. PERIOD.


36 posted on 03/25/2021 12:21:04 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Rennes Templar; All

A tag should be added: “ihumanepolicies”. It is cruel by Biden to invite kids through danger.


37 posted on 03/25/2021 6:24:51 AM PDT by Humane1
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To: Travis McGee

BLOAT!


38 posted on 03/26/2021 7:43:25 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: Rennes Templar
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.

UGH, the 1.9 trillion covid relief was not a victory, on 9% went to covid relief. As far as the vaccinations, Trump deserves 99% of the credit.

39 posted on 03/26/2021 7:46:45 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Travis McGee

Human garbage.


40 posted on 07/21/2021 2:12:32 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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