Biden’s border blame game is a cynical lie and everyone knows it

Immediately upon taking office, Joe Biden reversed President Trump’s “stay-in-Mexico” policy. Under that policy, immigrants seeking asylum were required to stay in Mexico or their home country while applying for asylum in the United States.

The alternative – followed by the preceding Obama Administration – is for the immigrants to enter the country with the proviso that they have to show up for a hearing some months or years in the future to determine their asylum claim. Of course, many immigrants never showed up for their hearings, and simply remained in the country illegally.

Which brings us to a semantics point. People who choose words precisely call these immigrants who are in the county illegally, “illegal immigrants.” Other people, whose choice of words is subordinate to their political leanings, instead use various euphemisms.  

The euphemism crowd wants not to call illegal immigrants “illegal immigrants” because such a term suggests that they are acting illegally. Most of us frown on illegal acts (though a growing number apparently don’t).

Think of it as a branding strategy, something like calling garbage collectors “sanitation engineers” or calling communists “liberals.”

Which brings us back to Biden. When he terminated “stay-in-Mexico,” the immigrants naturally stopped staying in Mexico, and made for better digs and gigs in the United States. Literally millions flooded the border from Mexico into Texas, Arizona and the future former state currently called California.

Their progress was hampered a bit by the border wall that Trump had started building. So, Biden stopped building it and even tore some down. He sold for pennies on the dollar the construction materials still on-hand.

Because whatever you do as the executive in charge of enforcing the nation’s laws – you know, the legal stuff – don’t ever hamper the illegal influx of millions of people across the border, especially if they’re uneducated, willing to engage in illegal acts to come here, and are occasionally drug dealers and terrorists.

Biden’s border wall strategy can be summed up with “don’t build it, and they will come.” He didn’t, and they did.

This willful refusal to enforce the nation’s laws, he and his advisors apparently thought, was highly virtuous and … mumble, er … put them on the right side of history or at least the left side. And besides, there was that kompromat matter to consider.

Norte Americanos eventually noticed that their southern border had been erased. Maybe it was the “press one for English, dos para Espanol” routine. Maybe it was the enthusiasm of Cinco de Mayo replete with Mexican flags. Maybe it was the declining price and increased supply of fentanyl. Maybe it was the crime rate.

Whatever it was, Biden’s border policy became a political liability, and Biden is nothing if not a political animal. Virtue is virtuous, but not at the cost of political power.

Biden’s first tactic for cushioning the political fallout from his self-inflicted border crisis was to deny it. He and his purported Homeland Security Director assured us the border was “secure.”

The people could see, however, that it wasn’t. It’s hard to conceal the illegal immigration of a population the size of Arizona.

Were the people supposed to believe their own lyin’ eyes, or the guy that told us he never talked with Hunter about Hunter’s “business” matters, that he was at the World Trade Center the day after 9/11, that the price of gas is down since he took office, that his collapse in Afghanistan was a great success, that his son was killed in Iraq, and that he used to drive a tractor trailer?

Eventually, Biden realized that the people were choosing to believe the first – their own eyes. They could see with their own eyes that there was a crisis at the border.

Plan B was to blame someone else for the crisis. The Republicans!

It’s all the fault of the MAGA-Republicans, says Biden now. It’s because they refused to rubber stamp a fig leaf border bill that would have opened the border to as many as 5,000 illegal immigrants a day – amounting to something like 1.8 million a year. Even that limit was flexible. The president – that would be Biden, for at least another year – could waive the limit if he wanted to.

Judging by the last three years, he wants to.

Late in the game, the Republicans realized they were being played for fools. The border bill is dead on arrival in the Senate and dead before arrival in the House.

Red with rage, Biden threatens now to hold Republicans responsible for the border crisis – the crisis that he denied existed just a few months ago.

He’ll stomp, he’ll fume, he’ll call Republicans names (maybe “Corn Pop”), he’ll say they’re endangering national security … blah blah blah.

What he won’t do, however, is to secure the border. He won’t deny entry to illegal immigrants. He won’t reinstate stay-in-Mexico. He won’t resume construction of a border wall. He won’t even endorse the border wall that the Texans are building on their own.

Joe Biden is a cheap carny show. He’s all about lies, distractions, low-rent salesmanship, temper tantrums, staff bullying, and self-aggrandizement, all at the expense of the nation. What a creep.