Virtually all illegal border-crossers who brought a child with them were released into the United States rather than being detained, as the law requires. Those people naturally called home and reported that they’d been let go, so more followed. Since he was inaugurated, Biden’s administration has released more than 1 million illegal border-crossers into the United States. That number approaches 2 million when you add in the “unaccompanied” “minors” and the known got-aways the Border Patrol could see but couldn’t apprehend because the agents were tied up serving as a Welcome Wagon for illegal “asylum-seekers.”
But that doesn’t mean the border is actually open. While the hapless White House press secretary’s claim that “the border is closed” is laughable, more than 40% of the record number of illegal-immigrant “encounters” (in Biden’s PC-speak) in May were bounced back into Mexico under the Title 42 pandemic health orders. That means there are still lots of people drawn by Biden’s La Invitación who need smugglers to sneak them past the Border Patrol.
In other words, the border is open-ish.
This is what kills people. Our border resembles what in the law is called an “attractive nuisance,” like a swimming pool without a fence. Biden’s policies lure people here with promises that they’ll be able to live here forever, without any meaningful chance of deportation, if only they can make it past the border.
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