For someone who is supposed to be running the United States government, President Joe Biden doesn’t seem to interact much with those working for him or know what they are doing.
A few weeks removed from the Pentagon hiding the physical condition of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin from the president, the former chief of the U.S. Border Patrol revealed Sunday that he never once talked to Biden during his two years on the job.
“I’ve never had one conversation with the president or vice president,” Raul Ortiz, who was the chief of the Border Patrol from August 2021 until his retirement last year, said in a 60 Minutes interview Sunday. “I was the chief of the Border Patrol. I commanded 21,000 people. That’s a problem.”
No kidding it’s a problem. The president of the U.S., for two years, was either unwilling or unable to talk to the one person who commands the group of people tasked with ensuring that the U.S. border is secure and under control. All the while, a record number of illegal immigrants crossed the border and were released into the U.S. And, most disturbingly, it betrays how little Biden is involved in managing the government he was elected to lead.
For the first three years of his presidency, Biden essentially allowed far-left special interests to dictate his immigration policy. That meant a wide-open border where illegal immigrants are released into the U.S., and there is no care or worry in the world about who they may be or what they might do, or what kind of an impact it would have on the infrastructure of the nation’s cities.
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But in year four, as he campaigns for reelection, Biden has realized that the situation and the border and the crisis wrought by rampant illegal immigration is a major electoral liability. The majority of recent polls place immigration as one of the top two problems they are concerned about when going to the ballot box, along with the economy. And in all of them, voters are more likely to trust former President Donald Trump on border and immigration policy.
If Biden is serious about stopping the crisis at the border, he might want to start by calling the Border Patrol to ask them what they think a worthwhile path forward would be. But instead, he is blaming Republicans in Congress for refusing to go along with his halfhearted attempt to pass legislation on the topic. After all, if he cared about border security, you would think he would have talked to his border security chief at least once.