Biden's Border Games

The Democrats generally, and the Biden Regime specifically, have been playing games over the border and illegal immigration. Last week, in a sign of petulance, the White House warned that ICE would have to scale back operations if Congress didn't pass the border bill (of which our border security was only incidental to the border security of Ukraine and Israel). Fox News reported:

    Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that because Republicans have not passed the bipartisan border security agreement with funding for Israel and Ukraine, the administration is left with no choice but to pull back from the border.

    "Because congressional Republicans are choosing partisan politics over our national security and refusing to pass the bipartisan national security agreement that includes significant border reforms and funding, over the coming weeks, ICE will be forced to reduce operations because of budget shortfalls," Jean-Pierre said during a gaggle on Air Force One.

    "We have asked Congress for additional funding and resources, and every time Congress has provided less than we asked for, or most recently, completely ignored our supplemental request," she said.

The problem for the Regime is that the border issue has become a huge political liability, especially after Texas and Florida started sending illegals to sanctuary cities forcing those cities to put their money where there mouth was. The growing division in the Democrat Party, combined with the general incompetence of the Biden Administration, resulted in chaos amongst the Biden Administration on how to deal with the border, as this Axios article recounts. 

Some officials wanted policies designed to punish or deter people who crossed the border illegally. Others — including vocal immigration advocates outside the administration — pushed to reform asylum policies and expand legal pathways for migrants to stay in the U.S., sources said.

So the Biden Administration has recently enacted a policy intended to split the baby: do nothing on the U.S. side of the border to appease the traitors that want the country to be invaded by foreigners, and have Mexico deploy its troops to intercept border crossers out of sight of the U.S. media. As the Daily Mail reports, in an article about a Catholic "safehouse" for the hordes of invaders:

    Inside Migrant House, these people are hidden away from roaming patrols of the Mexican army, state police, and national immigration service officers, who are finally now forcibly transporting them 1,500 miles south into southern Mexico.

    Make no mistake, the fact that Mexico is doing something to address the unrelenting mass migration crisis that enabled an estimated 5 million undocumented people to enter the U.S. over just three years is a good thing.

    But why are the Mexicans doing this now?

    How long will this operation last?

    And, most critically, why wasn't this policy instituted years ago?

    I traveled to Piedra Negras, just across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas to answer these questions - and what I found cuts to the heart of President Joe Biden's utterly cynical, dangerous and destructive immigrant non-policy.

    First, this is happening because Biden ordered it to save himself.

    There is no single issue on which the President is rated more poorly than the migrant crisis. A January NBC poll showed only 22 percent of voters think Biden would be 'better' than Trump on 'securing the border and controlling immigration.'

    But Biden can't lead a crackdown himself and risk alienating the 'open borders' extremists in his party, so his deceitful solution is a shadow deportation operation run by the Mexicans - out of sight of the American media.

    Second, there's good reason to believe that if Biden gets back in the White House this policy will end as quickly as it started.

    Third, and most disturbingly, this could have happened years ago sparing the United States a spiraling humanitarian disaster gripping communities from El Paso to Tucson, Chicago to New York City and Boston.

    President Biden didn't need a permission slip from Congress to end the migrant catastrophe that he helped create. He could have simply picked up the phone and called Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

    In late December, Secretary Antony Blinken and his chief lieutenants traveled to Mexico City on a diplomatic mission.

    Shortly thereafter the Mexican army, national guard, and state immigration officers rushed into the northern borderlands and began rounding up tens of thousands of immigrants.

    Troops, positioned at intervals along the Rio Grande, are equipped with mobile living quarters that sleep up to 20 at a time.

    In Piedras Negras, known to the Mexican troops as 'Zone 47,' soldiers in early January were filling 10 buses a day. By the end of the month, they had also packed an additional 30 passenger planes full of people.

    Captured migrants are fed into a conveyor belt of government transports to deliver them to Mexico's southern provinces along the border with Guatemala - especially the cities of Villahermosa and Tapachula.

    Mexican media is now reporting operations in the border cities of Tijuana, Juarez, and Matamoros, where the military recently bulldozed a massive immigrant camp across from Brownsville, Texas and dug anti-pedestrian trenches, 'under U.S. pressure.'

    Key to all of this is that Mexican troops and state police, for the first time since Biden was inaugurated, are stopping immigrants from hitching free rides north atop Mexico's 'La Bestia' cargo trains.

    This freighthopping was willfully ignored for years by both Biden and Lopez-Obrador's administration, as I first reported a year ago for DailyMail.com.

    It's hard to overstate how deceptive this all is.

    This President, who once condemned Trump for rapidly expelling migrants from the southern U.S. border, has secretly recruited Mexico's President to do his dirty work.

    And an administration that once pledged to address the 'root causes' of mass migration from South and Central America is now looking the other way, as millions of so-called asylum-seekers are bottled up in southern Mexico.

    Finally, some of what Lopez-Obrador's men are doing would surely horrify Biden's Left-wing supporters - if only more in the American media would report it.

    In Coahuila, where Piedras Negras is situated, state police often use violent tactics to drag women and children from the freight cars, said Mexican journalist Auden Cabello, who has interviewed immigrants wrenched from the trains.

    'The force that they're describing is that they're being pulled off the trains after not obeying demands,' Cabello said. 'That's everybody, women and children, men… they're physically dragging them off the trains.'

    The migrants themselves do not so much fear authorities roughing them up as do the one-way trip to entrapment in southern Mexico.

    The men in Casa Del Migrantes told me that they'd shelled out from $1,700 to $10,000 to get to Piedras Negras.

    'We don't have money now. We've already spent everything on our journey to arrive here,' one of the Central Americans said, the others nodding in agreement. 'We would have to start from zero.'

    Now only the wealthiest can afford to pay cartel smugglers for private transportation to evade northern roadblocks.

There's more, so read the whole thing.