Let’s begin with the truth on this one, then we’ll get to the lies, the confusion, and the blame.
Biden halted construction of the border wall that President Trump initiated during his first term.
He also fast-tracked illegal entry by unaccompanied minors, illegals with criminal records, and those with known ties to terrorists.
The number of illegal border crossings — in fact, all border interactions — went up when Biden became President.
Those are just a few of the true statements regarding Joe Biden’s handling of the border.
And here’s a quick video to remind you how focused Joe Biden really was on day one of his Presidency about destroying restrictions to illegal immigration, and how fixated he was on throwing the borders wide open during his term:
Biden intentionally opened our borders and encouraged more illegals to come, with offers of citizenship as an enticement.
There is not much left of Joe Biden, but I still blame him for what he did during his lucid moments. pic.twitter.com/TevAiu1fhf— RetiredPublius (@ProffesorPubli1) January 13, 2025
But of course, the moment President Trump started to surge in the polls against him on a platform of fixing Biden’s border crisis, Biden suddenly feigned victimhood — oh, how he wished he could fix that pesky border!
But Trump, and the Republicans, just wouldn’t let him.
I honestly don’t know if he’s cognitively aware that he is lying, at this point. It could simply be that he has played the good intentioned yet helpless victim so long that he truly believes it.
Either that, or he is so accustomed to lying with impunity that he doesn’t know what else to do.
Check out this clip from yesterday of Joe Biden responding to reporters about the border, and then we’ll break it down.
It is truly amazing how much deceit, confusion, and blame this man can fit into a few seconds of airtime.
🚨 Biden just told the biggest lie of his presidency.
"Let's get something in mind about the border. When I became president, the numbers came way down!"
He then claims he pushed for more “Secret Service agents” on the border.
Dude is cooked.pic.twitter.com/u8GqcH1Y8f
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 13, 2025
Firstly, did he say that the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border went down when he became President?
As a point of fact, every single number went up — not down — regarding border encounters and cross-border movement into the country under Biden’s administration, according to Republicans on the U.S. House Committee for Homeland Security:
Today, the House Committee on Homeland Security released its August “Startling Stats” factsheet reflecting the August 2024 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) border encounter data. According to CBP, total nationwide encounters totaled nearly 159,000 in August, including more than 107,000 at the Southwest border, an increase of more than three percent from July’s Southwest border numbers. Total nationwide encounters under the Biden-Harris administration now exceed more than 10.3 million, compared to just 3.1 million from Fiscal Years (FY) 2017-2020 combined. Notably, this does not include the roughly two million known gotaways recorded by CBP since the start of FY21.
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- Since February 2021, there have been more than 10.3 million encounters nationwide and more than 8.3 million encounters at the Southwest border.
- Nationwide border encounters by the Office of Field Operations (OFO) at ports of entry (98,274) increased more than 185% from August 2021.
Since January 2023, 813,000 inadmissible aliens have scheduled appointments with the CBP One app.- Since the program began, roughly 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans have been mass paroled under the administration’s CHNV parole program at ports of entry.
- 388 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist have been apprehended between ports of entry at the Southwest and northern borders since FY21.
- CBP has recorded more than 520,000 encounters of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) at the Southwest border since Biden and Harris took office, an unprecedented number.
Secondly, did he say that he had a bipartisan agreement, as a result of his pushing, to put more “Secret Service Agents” on the border?
I’m sorry — what? Since when do Secret Service Agents protect the border?
I don’t know how many times I have caught myself surprised at the ineptitude and/or audacity of Biden’s deceit, but the sitting President of the United States is unable to differentiate between the Secret Service and the U.S. Border Patrol.
That is far from okay.
Maybe that has something to do with why scenes like this played out time and time again along the southern border?
This is the moment when TX National Guard became overrun by migrants rioting to get across the border here in El Paso today
We were there and saw it all happen. Absolute chaos here. pic.twitter.com/VN6Kf663ie
— Jennie Taer 🎗️ (@JennieSTaer) March 21, 2024
And if Biden pushed so hard to put additional “Secret Service Agents”, or… whatever… on the border, why did he push back so hard when Texas took up their Constitutional obligation to protect the border in lieu of sufficient handling by the Federal government?
BREAKING: the federal court of appeals just ruled that Texas has the right to build the razor wire border wall that we have constructed to deny illegal entry into our state.and that Biden was wrong to cut our razor wire.
We continue adding more razor wire border barrier. pic.twitter.com/a1jLPvceLf
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) November 27, 2024
It took a federal appeals court to RESTRICT the Biden administration from hampering the actions by the State of Texas just in simply building a barrier.
That doesn’t sound like the actions of a man PUSHING for more agents protecting the border.
And then he had the gall to claim President Trump called him on the phone and begged him not to close down the border — because it would make him look bad.
Are we really supposed to believe that President Trump begged Biden to keep the border open for political optics? And, so what — he did?
That’s completely ridiculous, and sadly Biden’s mind seems to be so far gone that he doesn’t realize how transparent his attempts at deceit really are now.
Are we really expected to believe that story?
I don’t. Frankly, I don’t know anyone who does, except those who have made their minds up to believe whatever comes out of his mouth regardless of its validity.
The fact is, The Biden administration was quickly handing out exemptions, even to those who would be ineligible due to terrorism ties, according to a Fox News report:
The Biden administration gave nearly 7,000 exemptions, mostly to refugees, for foreign nationals who otherwise could be ineligible for admission into the U.S. due to terrorism-related entry restrictions — a significantly higher number than in recent years.
Fox News Digital reviewed a draft of the agency’s FY 2024 report to Congress on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary’s application of his power to exempt foreign nationals from terrorism-related inadmissibility grounds (TRIG). Foreign nationals who seek entry to the U.S. can be deemed inadmissible from entry and for immigration benefits if they have associated with, supported or worked with terrorist organizations.
However, the DHS secretary can exempt certain foreign nationals from that inadmissibility, including if they have provided support under duress, if they have provided medical care, and they meet other standards for exemptions.
According to the draft report, there were 6,848 TRIG exemptions in FY 2024. The majority (6,653) were for refugees, but the report does not break down the number by country. The Biden administration has significantly increased the refugee cap to 125,000, up substantially from the 18,000 set in the last year of the Trump administration.
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It shouldn’t be surprising at this point that the man who began his Presidency claiming that a laptop didn’t exist, only to end his Presidency by pardoning his son for everything that came to light on that “non-existent” laptop, would lie to us about basically everything else.
But somehow, it still surprises me.
Then again, we were also told for four years that he was the sharpest tack in the room, only to watch him fall victim to a bloodless coup when the jig was up — and nobody in the media or democrat leadership wanted to take the blame for propping up an empty suit.
About 3 weeks ago, the media told you that Biden was “sharp as a tack” 🙄
2 days ago, the poor guy was basically forced at gunpoint to resign as Dem nominee. His staff weren’t even informed.
Now they say Kamala is the best thing ever 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/E58MlrQZqI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 24, 2024
Here’s a full screen version of the video above, just to make sure you can watch it. (Trust me – it gets the point across.)
About 3 weeks ago, the media told you that Biden was “sharp as a tack” 🙄
2 days ago, the poor guy was basically forced at gunpoint to resign as Dem nominee. His staff weren’t even informed.
Now they say Kamala is the best thing ever 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/E58MlrQZqI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 24, 2024
We’re left with the question… what is more of a surprise — that they President of the United States would lie to Americans, or that the President of the United States isn’t even “there” enough to know when he’s lying or telling the truth?
The biggest surprise of all might be that the American people were willing to allow that surreal reality to come to fruition to begin with.
Hopefully, never again — but that might qualify for the biggest surprise yet; if Americans as a whole actually learned our lesson for good, and acted accordingly.
Then again, we did just hand President Trump both the electoral and popular vote — proving not all surprises are bad, and we Americans tend to get it right… eventually.
But maybe we’ll surprise ourselves again, and not cut it so close the next time around.
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