Miranda Devine: Migrant crime defined Bidens legacy and Trump is tasked with cleaning up the mess
The disasters of Joe Biden’s open border policy are coming home to roost.The Molotov cocktail attack by a Hamas-loving Egyptian illegal migrant on a group of American Jews in Boulder, Colo., is just one deadly consequence.The national police blotter is bulging with rapes, murders, robberies, assault, antisemitic attacks and all manner of crimes that never would have been committed if not for Biden’s insane decision to disband the suite of border protection policies President Trump had successfully implemented in his first term.Just in the last month, Larisha Thompson, a 40-year-old mother of two, was murdered in her car during a random robbery attempt by six illegal migrants from Honduras aged 13-21 in South Carolina, and 18-year-old Air Force cadet Ava Moore was killed in a hit-and-run on her Jet Ski in Texas by two illegal migrants.
Their names can be added to the growing tally of victims like Laken Riley, Rachel Morin and Jocelyn Nungaray, whose blood is on Biden’s hands.It was a point of pride for Biden to stop building Trump’s border wall, abandon Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy and institute catch-and-release so that 15 million to 20 million illegal migrants crossed the border during his presidency and melted into the heartland.He did it all with a flurry of executive orders on Day One, and a malign leftist as Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas.Together, as the national media turned a blind eye, they set about systematically undermining border security and making illegal migration more efficient, creating the CBP One mobile app to allow mass entry without vetting, providing work permits without immigration hearings and flying illegal migrants at taxpayer expense in the dead of night into cities and towns across America.They tied the hands of Border Patrol agents and even falsely accused some on horseback of racism for simply doing their jobs.Despite Biden’s lie that he was powerless to close the border and needed Congress to pass new...