Biden's Faux Border Crackdown

First, the limitations on asylum seekers only kick in once illegal crossings exceed 2,500 per day, which is nearly one million per year. As Ammon Blair, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation told me, Biden is going to “meter the invasion.”

As you read further, the executive order contains all kinds of loopholes that render it effectively useless, even during the emergency scenario. ...

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Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren chastised Biden for his executive order, describing it as a “functional ban on asylum,” to which immigration restrictionists might reply, “If only!” 

Ed Morrissey

This is a brief but detailed review of all the ways in which Biden and his team want to gaslight on immigration for the upcoming election. This order changes nothing substantively, and it's easy to expose. However, it also misses the point. It may be important to stop the flow now -- and this order doesn't even accomplish that much -- but the political damage is already done and will get worse. All of the ills of the massive migration allowed by Biden into the US won't end unless and until the illegals get removed. This would be akin to closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, and it doesn't even close the door or narrow its opening.

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