biden’s immigration policy a dangerous mess P resident Biden’s immigration policy is a mess. Go figure. His executive orders, draft legis-lation, operational changes, and public statements are contradictory, confusing to onlookers, and threaten America’s public’s health, safety, and security — however defined. Here is why. refugees and asylum seekers claim-ing “persecution” by their country of origin, since they do not fear Mexico. In the biggest baffle of the moment, Biden has swiftly upended Trump policies protecting the south-west border. He halted border wall construction, reprogrammed secu-rity monies. He revoked a third-party agreement with Mexico detaining 08 • AMAC Magazine He reinstituted Obama’s “catch and release” program for illegal crossers, hoping they return for a hearing — which most do not. He doubled down welcoming illegal “unaccompanied minors,” promising not to deport but find a home for them, detaining in the same facilities Trump used. days, an action reversed by a federal judge, but not settled. His proposed legislation is worse, institutionalizing incentives for illegal entry, fast track-ing illegals to citizenship, lifting limits and parameters in place for decades. The result has been an unmitigated disaster — a mass surge of illegals, especially unaccompanied minors, no place to put them and no end in sight. According to The Daily Signal, “so far Biden nonsensically issued guid-this year, Border Patrol has appre-ance making the term “illegal alien” hended more than 75,000 people by federal employees impermissi-crossing the border illegally” or ble. He barred deportations for 100 “double one year ago” and “highest continued on page 10
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