The president made a political deal in 2006 that required DHS to achieve "Operational control" of the border, and the bill for that deal has come due.
In January, agents made almost 78,500 apprehensions, but the next month, apprehensions broke the 100,000-mark when nearly 102,000 migrants were encountered by Border Patrol at the Southwest border.
The then-Trump administration responded to that surge with a series of initiatives to gain operational control of the border.
Border Patrol's yearly apprehension numbers for the Southwest border go back to 1960, and the largest number of apprehensions in that 61-year period was in FY 2000, when there were fewer than 1.644 million.
One might argue that the Biden administration is free to set whatever border policies that it wants, and that it is up to the voters to decide in the next election whether they want hundreds of thousands of aliens entering the United States illegally, and a Southwest border that authorities have surrendered.
It gave the DHS secretary 18 months to "Take all actions the Secretary determines necessary and appropriate to achieve and maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States".
He voted in favor of a strict requirement that DHS achieve "Operational control" at the Southwest border by preventing all unlawful entries in exchange for a bright political future.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
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