Jennie Taer Daily Caller News Foundation The Biden administration has been blaming Congress for inaction in solving the border crisis after taking actions at the executive level that are largely the reason for the continued record migrant surge, several former border officials told the Daily Caller News Foundation. On his first day in office, President…
The Biden administration has been blaming Congress for inaction in solving the border crisis after taking actions at the executive level that are largely the reason for the continued record migrant surge, several former border officials told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden began his tenure in the White House signing executive orders limiting immigration enforcement. Since then, federal authorities along the southern border have seen record flows of illegal immigration, including fiscal year 2022, which was the highest year on record with more than 2.2 million encounters of migrants crossing illegally.
“There is enough authorities that either the President or Secretary Mayorkas has to fix this crisis today. I don’t know that they would be able to solve it completely, but it would go a long way to driving the numbers down. They’re not using that authority, they haven’t used it for three years now. It appears they have no intention of using it. So this idea that they keep calling on Congress to pass new laws to give them new authorities is I think it’s a little bit of a red herring and a joke,” Chad Wolf, former acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary under the Trump administration, told the DCNF.
“Congress did not create this crisis, the Biden administration created this crisis and they have the ability to solve it,” Wolf said.
In recent weeks, Border Patrol has seen new daily records of migrants crossing the southern border illegally.
