{"id":1412848,"date":"2022-03-31T12:30:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412848"},"modified":"2022-03-31T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:30:46","slug":"this-is-by-design-this-is-not-accidental-did-democrats-dismantle-border-security-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-by-design-this-is-not-accidental-did-democrats-dismantle-border-security-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is By Design, This Is Not Accidental\u2019: Did Democrats Dismantle Border Security On Purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-is-by-design-this-is-not-accidental-did-democrats-dismantle-border-security-on-purpose%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412848&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Border-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Having spent years incentivizing illegal immigration, undermining enforcement, and demonizing ICE agents, Democrats are poised to campaign in the midterms as the guardians of border security. President Joe Biden surprised viewers earlier this year during his first State of the Union address, when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EKQjXYD7_uM\">told<\/a> the assembled members of Congress and the Supreme Court: \u201cIf we are to advance liberty and justice, we need to secure our border and fix the immigration system.\u201d Now, it appears that the new immigration messaging has filtered down through the party\u2019s ranks. Roll Call ran a story last Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2022\/03\/22\/democrats-emphasize-border-security-as-midterms-loom\/\">titled<\/a> \u201cDemocrats emphasize border security as midterms loom.\u201d It notes that Democrats in swing districts \u2014 such as Rep. Abigail Spanberger in Virginia\u2019s seventh district or Rep. Elissa Slotkin in Michigan\u2019s eighth district \u2014 now say they support increased border surveillance, either through technology (Slotkin) or by hiring more Border Patrol agents (Spanberger).<\/p>\n<p>While the messaging has shifted, the substance of Biden\u2019s open borders policies remains the same. One Border Patrol agent dismissed Biden\u2019s newfound focus on immigration enforcement as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fing-pandering-101-full-of-s-border-patrol-agents-react-to-bidens-state-of-the-union-immigration-claims\">pandering 101<\/a>.\u201d Former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, who is now a CEO at the America First Policy Institute, called Biden\u2019s border talk \u201clip service\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadFWolf\/status\/1498856396372299777\">reminded<\/a> his readers that \u201cthe President may have forgotten he has authority to fix the crisis NOW.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president has certainly had the authority to deepen the crisis. It is indisputable that, under the Biden administration\u2019s watch, the U.S. border with Mexico has become progressively less controlled. The number of encounters at the southern border in February <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/nation-world\/encounters-at-southern-border-increased-63-since-last-year-350-since-2020-data-shows\">increased 63%<\/a> compared to last year, which was a record-breaking year. The number of illegal border crossings last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">more than doubled<\/a> the number of illegal crossings during February 2019 under President Donald Trump. Nor does that reveal the full scope of the lawless influx. The number of \u201cencounters\u201d at the border does not include \u201cgotaways\u201d \u2014 illegal aliens who successfully evaded Border Patrol agents. The Department of Homeland Security said it counted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/220000-illegal-immigrants-evaded-border-patrol-since-october-source\">220,000<\/a> more people in this category between last October and this February.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reported 2.5 million border encounters during the Biden presidency. Of course, that includes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/3-stories-the-media-ignored-this-week\">1.7 million<\/a> known illicit crossings in 2021, the largest number of illegal immigrants to enter the United States in a single year in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>But the number of illegal immigrants entering the country represents only half of the problem. As the number of unlawful border crossings hit a record high during the last fiscal year, deportations fell by 30% \u2014 and they could be even lower this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only on our Southern border are we seeing record numbers of [illegal immigrants] coming in, inside the country\u201d there are \u201crecord low numbers actually being deported,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorLankford\/status\/1504217516041723909\">said<\/a> Senator James Lankford (R-OK) during a powerful presentation in the Senate. This combination of Democratic policies makes him think the border chaos is purposeful \u2014 that is to say, <em>intentional<\/em>. \u201cThis is by design. This is not accidental,\u201d Senator Lankford <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/senatorlankford\/status\/1504217633293541383\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe policies that have been put in place at the border are to encourage people to cross the border knowing full well they won\u2019t actually be deported.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is by design. This is not accidental. <\/p>\n<p>The policies that have been put in place at the border are to encourage people to cross the border knowing full well they won\u2019t actually be deported. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j0AZChbbqk\">pic.twitter.com\/j0AZChbbqk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. James Lankford (@SenatorLankford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorLankford\/status\/1504217633293541383?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This map shows all of the countries whose nationals have illegally crossed our southwest border\u2014it\u2019s literally every country in the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ROdiVOI5WD\">pic.twitter.com\/ROdiVOI5WD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. James Lankford (@SenatorLankford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorLankford\/status\/1504585872208850970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone could be forgiven for drawing the same conclusions. From halting construction of the Border wall on day one, to vowing to make Border Patrol agents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-times-the-media-lied-to-promote-the-liberal-narrative\">falsely accused<\/a> of whipping Haitian illegal aliens \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hype-and-spin-counting-down-the-top-5-non-stories-of-2021\">pay<\/a>\u201d for their imaginary crime, to deploying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Carl-von-Clausewitz\">Clauswitz<\/a>-like strategist Kamala Harris to negotiate over our border crisis, Biden has blown holes in America\u2019s border security.<\/p>\n<p>Lankford is not the only one to say Democrats deliberately encourage illegal immigration: So have the Obama-Biden coalition\u2019s closest allies. Eliseo Medina\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2010\/10\/illegal-immigrants-for-obama\/\">let the cat out of the bag<\/a>\u00a0in 2009. At the time, he was\u00a0International Secretary-Treasurer\u00a0of the Obama administration\u2019s favorite labor union, the SEIU, as well as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsausa.org\/democratic-left\/eliseo_medina_on_immigration_reform_and_activism\/\">honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America<\/a>.\u00a0Medina<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AK7K0itgQt0\">\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0a far-Left conference:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>If we reform the immigration laws \u2013 it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters. Can you imagine if you had even the same ratio, two out of three [Hispanics voting for Democrats], if we get 8 million new voters that care about our issue and will be voting, we will create a governing coalition for the long-term, not just for an election cycle?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The weak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/If%20we%20reform%20the%20immigration%20laws%20%E2%80%93%20it%20puts%2012%20million%20people%20on%20the%20path%20to%20citizenship%20and%20eventually%20voters.%20Can%20you%20imagine%20if%20you%20had%20even%20the%20same%20ratio,%20two%20out%20of%20three%20%5BHispanics%20voting%20for%20Democrats%5D,%20if%20we%20get%208%20million%20new%20voters%20that%20care%20about%20our%20issue%20and%20will%20be%20voting,%20we%20will%20create%20a%20governing%20coalition%20for%20the%20long-term,%20not%20just%20for%20an%20election%20cycle?\">policies Democrats enact to solidify their hold on power<\/a>, Senator Lankford pointed out, have contributed to the global scope of America\u2019s illegal immigration problem. \u201cLast year, we had individuals from literally every country in the world illegally cross our southern border,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorLankford\/status\/1504218054993059844\">said<\/a> Lankford. \u201cThat includes China. That includes North Korea. That includes Iran. It includes them all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even the Biden administration tacitly admits an uncontrolled border poses a national security threat in a new ICE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/doclib\/eoy\/iceAnnualReportFY2021.pdf\">report<\/a> released on March 11, which says, \u201cJust over two thirds of\u201d those deported \u201cwere classified as threats to either border security or to public safety.\u201d\u00a0The reality of our lightly guarded border essentially means that Americans must wait to be victimized by terrorists, gang members, and criminals before the Biden administration will consider acting. In effect, the Biden administration is gambling American citizens\u2019 lives on its assessment that 93% of illegal immigrants will do our people no harm.<\/p>\n<p>The situation will only get worse when the Biden administration follows through with its plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/biden-administration-says-it-will-not-expel-migrant-children-following-court-order\/\">end its use<\/a> of Title 42, a public health measure that has allowed Border Patrol agents to expel more than half of the undocumented people encountered at the border. \u201cAfter a Texas-based federal judge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aflegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Order.pdf\">ruled<\/a>\u00a0earlier [this] month that unaccompanied minors are not exempt from Title 42, the Biden administration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2022\/s0311-title-42-termination.html\">announced<\/a>\u00a0its plan to ignore the ruling, saying it would terminate Title 42 as it pertains to unaccompanied minors,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/nation-world\/encounters-at-southern-border-increased-63-since-last-year-350-since-2020-data-shows\">reported<\/a> San Antonio\u2019s NBC affiliate. Even Biden administration officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/biden-border-mexico-migrants-title-42-a91b6441-2197-463f-ab1f-2435824a9566.html\">acknowledge<\/a> this decision will likely trigger a \u201cmass migration event,\u201d the left-wing website Axios reported. Yet that reality seems not to have slowed the adoption of this policy in the least. After all, Biden has to balance the needs of a handful of center-Left Democrats with his party\u2019s ascendant, progressive wing, led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who posted the pithy slogan, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aoc\/status\/1351236031065038848?lang=en\">abolish ICE<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result is the worst kind of compromise: a deceptive campaign slogan chained to policies that wrench open our border, allowing millions from around the world to pour in, accompanied by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trafficked-how-joe-bidens-open-border-policies-have-fueled-americas-fentanyl-epidemic\">copious amounts<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judgment-matters-as-biden-obsesses-over-omicron-fentanyl-overdoses-surge\">deadly drugs<\/a> and international criminal organizations. Now, the Democrats seek to pivot before the midterms. But as the saying goes, \u201cThe best predictor of future performance is past performance.\u201d And as Senator Lankford said, that performance would lead reasonable people to believe the intended outcome is chaos, failure, and an escalating risk of American deaths.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent years incentivizing illegal immigration, undermining enforcement, and demonizing ICE agents, Democrats are poised to campaign in the midterms as the guardians of border security. 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