The Washington Post Rips Biden Over Border Crisis, Predicts Future Of Democrats For 2022
The left-leaning Washington Post is calling out the Democratic administration of President Joe Biden for its handling of the ongoing immigration crisis at the US southern border, saying that despite all the publicity, the administration has not come up with a solid plan to deter the unprecedented flow of illegal immigrants.
It noted that President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — who has been appointed to lead government efforts to address the border crisis — are on the right track focusing on the dire situation of Central American nations that many immigrants are fleeing, despite this, there has been virtually little real action taken to address the crisis.
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“In its apparent desperation to fashion an immigration strategy that will impose order on increasingly out-of-control migration, the Biden administration has unleashed a torrent of words and goals untethered to specific policies and timetables,” The Post said in an article written by its editorial board on Sunday.
“To date, on immigration, officials have effectively reversed and rolled back some of the Trump administration’s most pernicious policies, but without a clear road map to address the immediate crisis — a decades-high surge in illegal border-crossing — or the long-term challenge driving migration: dysfunction, disorder and decay in Central America,” it added.
In July, VP Harris unveiled a five-point strategy to tackle what she calls “the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras,” focusing on economic insecurity, corruption, violence, human rights abuses, and other pervasive and systematic concerns in those nations.
The Post noted, however, that since then, the Biden administration is yet to present a concrete plan to address the immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border — which has peaked after the Democrat president was inaugurated.
“That’s fine as far as it goes,” the outlet wrote. “It’s also a list that anyone with passing knowledge of the region could have compiled. What is mostly missing from the sweeping rhetoric and broad-strokes analysis is an actual plan for action.”
Biden admin’s “mixed messaging” on immigration
“Ms. Harris and administration officials have also described short-term steps designed to get a handle on deterring the current tsunami of migrants and asylum seekers at the border,” the outlet continued. “But the convoluted messaging — telling migrants not to seek entry to the United States while at the same time relaxing or scrapping an array of measures that would actually dissuade them, and providing relief to migrants on both sides of the border — has been a failure.”
It went on to say that not only is the Biden administration’s approach to the border resulting in record numbers of illegal immigrants, but the administration’s “failure” is also “politically toxic.”
It said the Biden administration has “driven a policy whose incoherence has yielded pressure at the border that may cost the Democrats control of one or both houses of Congress in next year’s midterm elections.”
“So far, there is nothing in the administration’s short- or long-term strategizing that is likely to shift that dynamic,” the Post added.
In June, border agents detained a monthly high of 190,000 illegal immigrants. In the current fiscal year, which began in October and ended in mid-July, border officials had apprehended 1.1 million illegal immigrants, months before Biden took office — but have spiked when he took office.
GOP governors moving to address border crisis
With the failure of the Biden administration to address the border crisis, The Post noted that governors of border states have taken a greater role to halt the flow of immigration.
Republican governors Greg Abbott (Texas) and Doug Ducey (Arizona) have for example sought the help from other governors to help police the border in an effort to stem the influx of illegal border crossers.
Other GOP-led states such as Florida, South Dakota, and Nebraska earlier announced they will be sending troops to the border to aid Texas in securing the country’s borders. Idaho has also earlier committed to sending assistance.
“Securing our border with Mexico is the federal government’s responsibility. But the Biden administration has proven unwilling or unable to do the job,” the governors wrote, ripping into the Biden administration. “This failure to enforce federal immigration laws causes bans that spill over into every State,” it added.
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