No one’s surprised by this, of course.
During a visit that even CNN is describing as “tightly controlled,” the President made a few check-the-box stops in the Texas city of El Paso visiting the physical border wall as well as posing for photo-ops with border patrol agents:
Biden spent several hours in El Paso in his first visit to the southern border as president, following growing outcry and criticism that he had not yet seen the crisis created by the record number of migrants trekking to the border first hand. But that brief visit appeared largely focused on enforcement issues and speaking with border enforcement personnel. Reporters on the ground did not see any migrants at the respite center during the president’s visit there, nor along the motorcade routes throughout the afternoon.
Asked to explain the thinking behind having Biden visit this specific center and ultimately not meeting or interacting with any migrants there, a senior administration official told CNN, “There just weren’t any at the center when he arrived. Completely coincidental. They haven’t had any today.”
Biden’s visit was scheduled at a time when border crossings had already dropped drastically in El Paso. Still, CNN’s Rosa Flores reported on Sunday that hundreds of migrants, including children, were living on the street after crossing into the United States in El Paso. And nearly 1,000 additional migrants were in federal custody in detention facilities in El Paso on Sunday, according to the City of El Paso’s migrant dashboard.
The city of El Paso is overrun by illegal aliens flooding the city on a daily basis. Miraculously, however, none of them were to be found wandering during Biden’s visit. The endless tent cities and homeless migrant camps were swept cleanly under the rug while Biden graced the city with his presence.
NBC News (of all places) obtained video of arrests being made outside an El Paso catholic church hours before Biden’s visit to try and cleanse any appearance of a true immigration crisis:
In the week before President Joe Biden’s trip to El Paso, Texas, Customs and Border Protection officers, as well as El Paso city police, began arresting migrants sleeping in the streets outside a Catholic church shelter and bus station, according to new video obtained by NBC News.
In the videos, border agents can be seen patrolling the streets on Tuesday night, driving up in vans with flashing lights and rustling tents where families were sleeping. Immigration advocates say the proximity of the arrests to a church shelter may violate the Department of Homeland Security’s policies.
The person who shot the videos, a volunteer at the shelter, estimated to NBC News that approximately 100 to 150 migrants had been arrested and that more migrants sleeping by the bus station were taken into custody later in the week.
Illegal immigration is fine and good but not when it might interfere with the official Democratic Party narrative that (A) there is no border crisis and (B) if there is a crisis, it’s the fault of Republicans. Both points are false, of course, but that’s the spin being presented by the President as he toured the border on Sunday.
Biden’s visit was a whitewashed event meant to look as if he is doing something to address the problem he helped create. Even the mayor of El Paso, a lifelong Democrat, realized a long time ago that his city was on its own as the Biden administration is only interested in making matters worse:
In recent months, the El Paso sector has surpassed the Rio Grande Valley sector in migrant arrests. RGV has historically been one of the busiest sectors for border crossings. The El Paso sector patrols 268 miles of international border.
Last November, border authorities encountered more than 53,000 migrants in the El Paso sector, according to the latest available data from US Customs and Border Protection.
Last year, El Paso – whose mayor, Leeser, is a Democrat – began sending migrant buses to New York City, following in the footsteps of Republican governors, to try to get people to their destination and decongest the city. That effort has since stopped.
The problem of dealing with migrants when they flood into the country is a symptom of a porous border. Furthermore, the perpetuated belief among residents of numerous south and central American countries is that Biden’s basically leaving the border open. It’s a compounded issue of an administration that wants no part of border security but every part of importing new future citizens for some eventual mass amnesty down the road, there’s not much room for logic that says otherwise.
It’s one thing to allow work visas or let people enter the country for jobs, it’s another thing to let them break a dozen laws on their way in and immediately begin receiving benefits from public services paid for by taxpayer money.
Until Biden actually changes his policy to one of border enforcement and security as the top priority, the rest is just window dressing.
