Why Does the Biden Administration Refuse to Secure the Border?

             The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday concerns national security and the responsibility of the federal government to maintain a security border. People all over the world know that the border between Mexico and the United States is wide open and that anyone can cross the border and be allowed into the interior of America.

More than 1.7 million migrants have crossed illegally into the United States in the past year because Biden administration policies. The Trump administration had border crossings under control, but the Biden administration cancelled the applicable policies and caused this national security problem.

Border Patrol agents have taken into custody people from more than one hundred other nations, and many of the migrants are terrorists, members of gangs, and criminals. The border is not secure, and the insecure border is the cause of national security problems.

            Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security attended a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. Mayorkas was grilled by the Senators and failed to give adequate answers to their questions.

            The Daily Signal published an article by Chad Wolf, Mark Morgan, and Lora Ries stating that there was a “lack of transparency and leadership that is needed to tackle the biggest border security crisis the U.S. has ever faced.” First, I should give the credentials of the authors. 

·         Wolf was the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration. He is now a visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s David Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.

·         Morgan was acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the Trump administration. He is now a visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.

·         Ries is director of the Center for Technology Policy and a senior research fellow for homeland security at The Heritage Foundation.

The above listed credentials show that Wolf, Morgan, and Ries are qualified to analyze the

Performance of Mayorkas. They listed the following six key takeaways from the hearing:

1) “A” for Effort: Mayorkas started off by giving himself and his department an “A: for effort, investment in mission, and support of the Department of Homeland Security workforce….

2) Attempt to Redirect Blame to Trump: This is an often-used argument from the Biden administration. When members of the administration are challenged on their open-borders agenda and lack of any measurable results, they pivot to claiming President Donald Trump’s administration broke the immigration system….

3) Lack of Transparency: On numerous occasions, Mayorkas had the chance to provide data to buttress his arguments or to respond to legitimate and straightforward question. Here’s a short list of information he did not provide:

·         The number of COVID-positive illegal aliens released into the U.S.

·         The number of minors currently held in U.S. Border Patrol facilities.

·         The number or percentage of in-person interviews conducted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Afghanistan evacuees.

·         The number of families separated at the border since February, the first full month of the Biden administration.

To be clear, the Department of Homeland Security produces daily metrics containing this information. The more appropriate question is: Why didn’t the secretary come prepared with such data?

4) ‘Obama Cages’: When asked by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, about the number of minors currently being held in U.S. Border Patrol facilities – or “cages,” as the left referred to them during the Trump administration – Mayorkas went out of his way to say that he was not familiar with the description of “cages.”

That would conflict with testimony he provided during his confirmation hearing when he repeatedly acknowledged the term “cages,” as well as the fact of the construction of such facilities during his time at the department under President Barack Obama.

5) Border Patrol Agents on Horseback: When pressed on why he didn’t defend Border Patrol agents on horseback from unwarranted criticism earlier this year, Mayorkas again obfuscated and claimed that he “stands with the men and women of the department … [and that] I will not prejudge the facts….”

But unfortunately, that stands in stark contrast to comments he made shortly after the incident in September:

[I was] horrified by what I saw.

One cannot weaponize a horse to aggressively attack a child. That is unacceptable. That is not what our policies and our training require…. Let me be quite clear: That is not acceptable.

That lack of leadership and refusing to support the department’s law enforcement officers is taking a toll….

6) Payments to Illegals Aliens: Perhaps the most remarkable part of the hearing occurred when Mayorkas refused to acknowledge that paying illegal aliens who were separated from their children $450,000 would, in fact, encourage more illegal crossings….

            The performance of Mayorkas was not a surprise to most people. He was, obviously, toeing the company line and being a good employee. However, it shows clearly that the Biden administration are not interested in securing the southern border. It shows that they want millions of poor people to come into the United States, but it does not necessarily show compassion for people who are suffering.

The Biden policies follow the tactics of Saul Alinsky who taught his followers to overwhelm the system. They also follow the general policy of the Obama administration to never let a good crisis go to waste. The influx of thousands of Afghan refugees, the pandemic with all its problems, the economy and many people losing their jobs, and the surge at the southern border are all being done to overwhelm the American system and fundamentally transform our democratic republic into a socialist nation.

At first, people assumed that it was newness to the job and compassion for the downtrodden of the world that caused the Biden administration to make so many costly mistakes – Biden’s blunders. However, more people are stating openly that all these mistakes cannot be assigned to incompetence. It appears, particularly from performances like that of Mayorkas this week, that Biden’s policies are working exactly how he and his administration expect them to work.

This means that all the chaos in our nation is being done on purpose to overwhelm Americans and the American way of life. That means that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the entire administration are acting contrary to what is good for America. In other words, they are either completely incompetent, or they are traitors. In the first case, they should all resign, and in the second case, they should all be arrested and tried for treason.