While the crisis on the U.S. southern border gets worse by the hour, Democrats, including President Joe Biden, insist the situation is nothing out of the ordinary.
“I guess I should be flattered people are coming because I'm a nice guy; that’s the reason why it’s happening -- that I’m a decent man or however it’s phrased. That -- you know, that’s why they’re coming, because they know Biden is a good guy,” Biden said during his first official press conference this week. “The truth of the matter is: Nothing has changed.”
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, although he won’t call it is a crisis, is describing the situation a bit differently.
“We are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years,” Mayorkas released in a recent statement. “The situation at the southwest border is difficult.”
But while border states like Texas become overrun with illegal immigrants and unaccompanied minors, straining local law enforcement and public health resources, the catastrophe is quickly exploding into a national disaster.
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Due to a lack of proper and legal housing facilities for unaccompanied minors and a limited number of holding facilities for illegal immigrants, the Biden administration plans to put individuals on planes to states far away from the southern border with Mexico.
“I am outraged to read the Washington Post story that the Biden Administration is in discussions to potentially fly illegal immigrants from the Southern Border to the Canadian Border and process these individuals in states like Montana. Without a secure border, every town becomes a border town, and now the Biden Border Crisis may come to towns like Helena, Missoula, or Billings,” Congressman Matt Rosendale said about the situation.
Families released by Customs and Border Protection without court dates are testing positive for Wuhan coronavirus and knowingly getting on buses with tickets to North Carolina, Illinois, and elsewhere. The positive testing rate among unaccompanied minors for Wuhan coronavirus is 10 percent, three times higher than any American community rate in the U.S.
While Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed in Texas, cartels working in Arizona are taking advantage of the situation and increasing narcotics smuggling operations. Once those drugs successfully reach Interstate 8, going west to California, or Interstate 10, which spans the entire country east to west, their mission is well on its way to completion. The lethal drugs quickly arrive in opioid-ridden states like Ohio or violent, gang-plagued streets of Chicago.
"Those drugs are not just affecting the border," Border Patrol Union Vice President Art Del Cueto said during a recent interview with Fox News. "Those drugs are going into middle America. They're going all over the country, affecting kids.”
Tamped down by the Trump administration, notorious and violent El Salvadorian street gang MS-13 is expected to make a resurgence in Virginia and New York.
The crisis starts at the southern border, but it is manifesting in American communities across the country. Every state is a border state now.
