A bipartisan team of Congress members spent months negotiating the details of a comprehensive border security and immigration reform package. However, the package failed to make it through Congress after Republicans switched their support to opposition at the last minute. Republicans have criticized President Biden for not being tougher on border security, leaving some confused about why the GOP now suddenly opposes a tough border security bill that Republicans themselves co-authored.
Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman argues that this drama actually has nothing at all to do with the border, and instead has everything to do with Donald Trump. Pakman says that the former president needs this ongoing border crisis to remain unresolved in order to fundraise and mobilize his supporters to defeat Biden in November.
In particular right now, Trump needs it. Trump can’t run against Biden on a terrible economy because the economy is doing well. Trump predicted that if Trump lost and Biden won in 2020, we would see a 1929-style stock market depression. We’ve actually seen what, a dozen all-time stock market highs? He can’t run against Biden on the economy. So instead, he’s running against Biden on dementia, and he’s running against Biden on the border.
Now, the truth is, the truth is that since Joe Biden became president, Department of Homeland Security is removing a higher percentage of the arrested border crossers than it did under Trump. The reality is that in absolute terms, the Biden DHS is removing three and a half times as many people per month as they did under Trump. The reality is that the crisis is mostly a manufactured crisis.