Author and former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly accused President Joe Biden of “actively” propping up the interests of organized crime with his border policies.
In a Thursday interview on The Laura Ingraham Show, O’Reilly blamed Biden’s “open border policy” for accelerating violent crime and other social problems in the United States.
“The president of the United States is actively helping organized crime this very moment,” O’Reilly said.
“When Joe Biden came in, he dismantled in 24 hours Donald Trump’s border policy that made it more difficult for migrants to come to the United States and more difficult for narcotics to be smuggled in here from the Mexican cartels,” he said. “That’s a fact. No dispute.”
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O’Reilly was on the show to promote his new book, Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America, which was released Tuesday.
In the interview, O’Reilly drew a connection between the criminal activities of the 20th-century mob, the main subject of his book, and Central American drug cartels that he said directly benefit from Biden’s border policy changes to the detriment of U.S. citizens.
“All of these tremendous social problems that we have, all of this violence that is taking innocent lives, can be now directly linked to organized crime in America. They control it, but Biden has made their job much, much easier,” O’Reilly said.
O’Reilly also accused Biden of being completely in the dark about the consequences of his border policies.
“The president of the United States does not understand what is happening now, whether he’s diminished and can’t understand it, which is what I believe … Or doesn’t care, he’s apathetic, which is certainly possible, it doesn’t really matter now,” he said. “Because the most powerful man in the country who is supposed to be leveling with the folks is running around telling everybody that he’s going to give them stuff. Meantime, all of our social problems are getting worse.”
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In the month of April, deportations reached a record low, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement expelling fewer than 3,000 individuals for the first time on record. In March, more than 172,000 people tried to cross the border from Mexico illegally, the highest in 15 years.
