Busted ‘border’ is where Biden’s normalcy goes to die
OPINION:
Joe Biden became president largely by promising to Make America Normal Again.
The shambolic U.S.-Mexico “border” confirms how President Biden has shattered that promise. There is nothing normal about the coast-to-coast disaster over which he governs, thanks largely to Mr. Biden’s deeply abnormal definition of border security.
Under Mr. Biden, the southern “border” has become a giant, open-air staging ground from which illegal aliens bludgeon U.S. territorial integrity and national sovereignty.
Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,671,266 illegal aliens during former President Donald J. Trump’s final 27 months in power. In Mr. Biden’s first 27 months, they encountered a breathtaking 5,249,144 illegals — up a skin-crawling 214%.
In fiscal 2020, the last that Mr. Trump fully controlled, 69,000 illegal migrants were detected on the “border” but got away into America’s interior. In fiscal 2022 (all Mr. Biden’s watch), “gotaways” hit 599,000 — up a mind-blowing 768% versus fiscal 2020.
Federal agents busted an Afghan illegal alien on May 10 at Otay Mesa, California, in southern San Diego. His fingerprints confirmed his spot on the terrorist watchlist.
This fanatic is hardly alone. Terror-list designees arrested at the “border” have exploded from three in fiscal 2020, with Mr. Trump fully in control, to 15 in fiscal 2021, 98 in fiscal 2022, and 85 through April — just halfway through fiscal 2023. And these were those who were intercepted. Aside from the 183 suspected terrorists apprehended on Mr. Biden’s watch, how many walk America’s streets today? Who knows?
As if the U.S. needed more homeless people, illegal aliens who get waved into America now clog the sidewalks and alleys of El Paso, Texas, and other cities.
Even more illegals receive court dates for asylum hearings — in 2026, 2027 and beyond. What will they do until then? Who knows?
Free bus rides whisk illegal aliens to Chicago, where some have slept on the floors of police stations. A plan to house 250 to 500 illegals in the abandoned South Shore High School enraged predominantly Black community residents.
“Send them back!” some yelled at a community meeting on the matter. One protester’s placard read: “Build the Wall 2024.”
“We have no jobs in our community, and we have been fighting for jobs for decades,” resident Natasha Dunn told the Chicago Sun-Times. “So, please tell me, how is this fair?”
Rather than instruct illegal aliens on incoming buses to return to the southern “border” and swim home, New York City Mayor Eric Adams tried housing them in government-school gymnasiums. Parents erupted, and Mr. Adams backed down.
Regardless, he still shoehorns illegals into hotel rooms that cost taxpayers some $258 per night each. Cost to aliens: Nothing. Midtown Manhattan’s legendary Roosevelt Hotel is becoming an illegal-alien shelter.
“Almost 50 percent of those hotel rooms are taken up by migrant asylum seekers that we are paying for,” Mr. Adams said. “So instead of monies coming from people who are visiting us and spending in our tourism, in our Broadway plays, instead of them using those hotels, we are using those hotels.”
“New York’s combined state and local hotel taxes total 14.75%,” the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s Ira Mehlman observed. “So, not only is the city paying to house the migrants, they are losing substantial revenues on hotel occupancy taxes.”
These are just a few glimpses of the chaos that flows downhill from Mr. Biden’s busted “border.” Worse of all, this is neither an accident nor incompetence. At this pace, Mr. Biden’s deliberate policy will vacuum 9.3 million illegal aliens into America before his current term ends.
Mr. Biden and his comrades are betting that these illegals are future Democrats who will be so grateful for being allowed to invade the USA that they will vote Democratic, flip GOP states Democratic, permanently transform the White House into the private property of the Democrat National Committee, and devolve America into a neo-Marxist, one-party state.
In November 2024, Mr. Biden and the Democrats deserve to vanish beneath an electoral landslide that is anything but normal.
• Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor
