Witnessing the Biden border crisis firsthand

Published April 19, 2021 4:00am ET



For years, the Democratic Party’s mantra has been, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” If there were not a crisis, they would manufacture one. Such is the case now with our southern border.

With President Joe Biden’s elimination of the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy, the southern border of the United States has turned into a human turnstile. In March alone, more than 172,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the border, a nearly two-decade high. In addition, nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children were taken into custody, which is the most the U.S. has ever seen in a month and a 275% increase from the same time last year.

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