Back in August 2023, hundreds of foreign nationals rushed the U.S.border in separate incidents at official crossing points in Brownsville and El Paso, Texas.
DHS officers put up physical barriers and stopped traffic over the Gateway International Bridge.On the Mexican side, the military intervened to stop further mass attempts by aliens to enter the U.S.
illegally.For those who have already forgotten, we very recently had hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens pouring over our border every month.Why did they come in the millions from 2021-2024 and only a few hundred today? Policy choices.
Former President Joe Biden and his Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas were lamentably successful at creating made-up "lawful pathways" and circumventing our laws to parole or release as many aliens into our country as possible.The effects will last decades.We saw an echo of the Biden border recently in the Spanish city of Ceuta, in North Africa.
In July, more than 72,000 non-Spaniards bum-rushed the border while Morocco did little to stop them.The majority were Moroccans, who mostly went home within a few days.
But 10,000 or more were from sub-Saharan Africa or claimed to be minors, or both.SPAIN DEPLOYS MILITARY AFTER THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS OVERWHELM BORDER ENCLAVE, AT LEAST 18 DEADSpain is now stuck with processing them under Europe’s insanely soft asylum policies, which will likely result in many being taken to mainland Spain.The success of even a minority of these invaders to access Europe will encourage many more to try.Escorted by the Spanish army, migrants who crossed into Spain return to Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Saturday, Aug.
1, 2026.(AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)President Donald Trump ended Biden’s open-borders policies.
Since he took office, there have been zero "catch-and-release" cases at the border, the Department of Homeland Security says.Trump also ended Biden’s reckless and illegal mass parole programs.
Some aliens ...