{"id":24878,"date":"2021-08-09T19:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T23:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24878"},"modified":"2021-08-09T19:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T23:48:37","slug":"wash-post-biden-incoherent-border-policy-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/08\/09\/wash-post-biden-incoherent-border-policy-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Calls Biden Border Strategy \u201cIncoherent\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How bad have things gotten at the border? So bad that even apologists for illegal immigration, like the Washington Post, are turning on the Biden administration. In a Sunday editorial<\/a>, the paper asserted that \u201cPresident Biden needs a coherent strategy for the border.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One might argue with the\nPost\u2019s contention that the border crisis is a product of incoherence. There is\nample evidence to suggest that border chaos and unrestricted immigration, no\nmatter the cost, is a deliberate policy on the part of the administration and\nthat it is being carried out with ruthless efficiency. Nonetheless, the Post\u2019s\nblistering critiques of the Biden-Harris policies are a sign that even the\nadministration\u2019s elitist cheering squad is starting to have doubts about the\nimpact of these policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the Washington Post\neditorial board\u2019s bill of indictments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration cannot explain its immigration policies to the\nAmerican people (or anyone else).<\/strong> The \u201cBiden administration has unleashed a\ntorrent of words and goals untethered to specific policies and timetables,\u201d the\nPost charges. Upon entering office, the president scrapped effective border\npolicies he inherited from his predecessor, but failed to provide \u201ca clear road\nmap to address the immediate crisis\u201d that his actions set in motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The administration\u2019s \u201cconvoluted\nmessaging \u2014 telling migrants not to seek entry to the United States while at\nthe same time relaxing or scrapping an array of measures that would actually\ndissuade them, and providing relief to migrants on both sides of the border \u2014\nhas been a failure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addressing \u201croot causes\u201d of migration isn\u2019t going to address the crisis.<\/strong> Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 recently unveiled \u201cFive Pillars<\/a>\u201d for fixing Central America \u2013 ending poverty, crime, and corruption \u2013 is nothing more than a high-minded way of saying they have no real intention of enforcing our borders or immigration laws. It\u2019s \u201ca list that anyone with a passing knowledge of the region could have compiled,\u201d the Post observes. It is also unrealistic. \u201cWhat is mostly missing from the sweeping rhetoric and broad-strokes analysis is an actual plan for action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The administration\u2019s border policies are politically toxic.<\/strong> This may be the factor that scares the elitist media more than anything else. The unending chaos at the border could end the Democrats\u2019 already tenuous grip on control of Congress in the midterm elections, and with it, any hope of enacting a whole range of leftist policy priorities. A June Harvard-Harris poll<\/a> found that 64 percent of voters want tighter policies implemented to secure the border. And that was before<\/em> the release of June and July data indicating that some 400,000 migrants<\/a> were apprehended at the border during a season in which illegal migration generally ebbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The administration\u2019s \u201cfailure\nis measurable, and it is politically toxic,\u201d warns the Post. That toxicity is\nthe product of a \u201cpolicy whose incoherence has yielded pressure at the border\nthat may cost the Democrats control of one or both houses of Congress in next\nyear\u2019s midterm elections. So far, there is nothing in the administration\u2019s\nshort- or long-term strategizing that is likely to shift that dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until this point, the\nBiden-Harris assault on border and immigration enforcement has benefited from\nthe willful blindness of the elitist media that has chosen not to report the\nhealth, security, and humanitarian disaster that is playing out. That the\nWashington Post is now going so far as to accuse the administration of lacking\na coherent policy is significant \u2013 and perhaps offers a glimmer of hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How bad have things gotten at the border? So bad that even apologists for illegal immigration, like the Washington Post, are turning on the Biden administration. In a Sunday editorial, the paper asserted that \u201cPresident Biden needs a coherent strategy for the border.\u201d One might argue with the Post\u2019s contention that the border crisis is<\/p>\n

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