How much longer can Biden pretend the border is secure?
Zachary Faria
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With several more Democratic cities and states complaining about illegal immigration and begging the White House to help, how much longer can President Joe Biden get away with his narrative that the border is secured?
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre continued peddling this talking point this week. On Wednesday, Jean-Pierre said that “we are stopping the flow at the border” in response to New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s comments. Adams has been the loudest Democrat saying that the Biden administration needs to do more to address the border crisis. Jean-Pierre followed that up on Thursday by saying that Biden had done more to secure the border “than anybody else.”
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Yes, the Biden administration really wants you to think that it’s the Republican Party that is fighting against securing the border. The administration also wants you to think that Biden has already secured the border, so what exactly the problem is supposed to be here isn’t exactly clear.
The reality is that Biden’s own decisions have all but opened the border for any and all arrivals, and it is Democrats who are now raising the red flags. Among the recent cries for help are those of new Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who said that “Chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without significant support and immigration policy changes.”
States are starting to cave to the pressure too. In order to appease Adams, the Biden administration wants to move illegal immigrants arriving in New York City to New Jersey. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has already objected and claimed they have no room for new illegal immigrants “in Atlantic City or frankly elsewhere in the state.” And Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has turned to the National Guard after declaring a state of emergency over the number of arrivals.
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But hey, Biden, Jean-Pierre, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have insisted that the border has been closed for years and also that Republicans are responsible for the border not being closed. So who are you really going to believe?
At some point, this border crisis is going to break the Democratic Party, especially if Biden and his team continue to assert that everything is going well. Democratic city and state after city and state are saying, tacitly or openly, that Biden is failing. How much longer can the administration keep claiming otherwise?