Trump to fill leadership void on the border
Texas | June 21, 2021
Former President Donald Trump is once again showing leadership in the face of the current administration’s deliberate neglect of the border crisis they reinvigorated. Joe Biden has repeatedly denied the existence of this crisis, opting instead to refer to the massive surges of illegal border crossings as a mere “challenge.” Had Trump attempted to minimize the situation back when the media cared about the border, he would have met with the full ire of the demagogues on the left. “Moderate” Joe it seems has been given a pass in this regard.
U.S. Customs & Border Patrol just this week released a statement detailing the extent of the problem. According to their data, Border Patrol encountered 180,034 undocumented people attempting to cross over into the US. This represents a 674 percent increase from May of 2020, when just 23,237 illegal aliens were apprehended under the Trump Administration.
Each month of the Biden presidency has seen an increase in these numbers from the month previous. CBP also revealed that a startling estimated 250,000 aliens have managed to escape apprehension this year so far, escaping into the US unaccounted for. With President Joe Biden’s effective muzzling of ICE’s ability to enforce immigration law leading to a sharp decrease in deportations since 2020, it appears doubtful that they will be able to keep up with the hundreds of thousands who have already unlawfully entered, notwithstanding those who will continue to slip through the cracks…
(Excerpts from the Daily Torch)