The fact that the southern border of the United States has been massively overrun since Joe Biden took office won’t come as news to anyone who doesn’t live entirely off the grid. The Biden border crisis has been largely ignored by both the media and the White House from the beginning, but an internal memo sent to CBP officials indicates that the administration has now put some plans in place. Unfortunately, those plans don’t involve a way to slow the flow of illegal aliens into the country or send them back to their nations of origin more quickly. Instead, we will be constructing new permanent processing centers intended to more quickly handle the cases of people apprehended while entering the country illegally and release them into the nation’s interior. Is anyone honestly surprised by this move? (Free Beacon)

The Biden administration is expanding the size of migrant processing facilities on the southern border, a sign it does not see the immigration crisis ending any time soon.

An internal document sent to senior Customs and Border Protection officials, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, describes plans by the agency to construct three permanent processing facilities for up to 1,000 migrants at a time in Del Rio, Laredo, and El Paso, Texas. An existing temporary U.S. Border Patrol processing site in Yuma, Ariz., will double in size and also be made permanent.

CBP’s expansion of permanent processing facilities comes as the Biden administration has given no indication of how it plans to decrease the number of attempted crossings at the southern border.

The majority of the new processing centers will be located in Texas, the state that’s been hit the hardest by the flood of illegal aliens flooding over the border. In January alone, 75,000 migrants were apprehended along the border. That’s a six percent increase over December’s numbers which were already approaching record levels. The numbers are in the millions and both the processing centers and the immigration courts remain completely overwhelmed.

As one DHS official told the Free Beacon this week, the Border Patrol is now being used as “processing dummies,” and that’s being seen as “the new normal” under the Biden administration. The entire missions of ICE and CBP have been altered, with actual border security and deportations being viewed as secondary to the job of processing and releasing illegal migrants.

None of this is happening by accident or in a vacuum. Joe Biden made it clear before he even took office that welcoming illegal aliens was a priority demanded by his progressive base and he planned to deliver. And aspiring illegal migrants from around the world heard his message quite clearly. They’ve been forming up caravans on a regular basis and our immigration laws (which are still in force and have never been repealed, by the way) are simply being ignored in the majority of cases.

It’s worth noting that blue states around the nation have gotten the message as well and some are even passing laws to make the job of ICE even harder. In New York State, as of last October, it is now illegal to even tell an illegal alien that you plan to report them to immigration officials. You can be fined or even jailed for doing so because you are allegedly doing something that will be treated the same as extortion or coercion.

This is all happening for an obvious reason. Democrats continue to work toward establishing some sort of mass amnesty for all illegal aliens in the country. The assumption is that the millions of illegals will then become eligible for citizenship and will demonstrate their gratitude by registering as Democrats. This insanity is unfortunately the new normal on the left. Our government is currently far more concerned with the territorial integrity of Ukraine than that of our own nation.