President Joe Biden is inadvertently confessing that he allowed the border crisis to spiral while lying to the public that his hands were tied unless Congress did what he wanted.

That is the admission implicit in Biden’s pending announcement of an executive order to limit the number of asylum claims that can be made each day. That would be a contradiction of the argument Biden had been making for months, which was that only by Congress passing a new law could he have the power to slow the surge in illegal immigration. Biden has portrayed himself as a helpless bystander on the border crisis, but all of a sudden, he has discovered he can intervene through executive orders.