President Biden has been caught flat footed again in yet another avoidable disaster. Early in his term, Biden and members of his administration failed to comprehend that their rollback of President Trump's successful border policies were incentivizing an unprecedented surge of illegal immigrants at the southern border. As a result, the number of people risking the dangerous journey to our southern border has continued to rise, even during the treacherous summer months, even during a global pandemic.
We are encountering more people at our southern border than any other time in the last 21 years. Two months in a row, the numbers exceeded 200,000; in August 2021, the numbers represented a 317 percent increase over August of last year.
And now, another self-inflicted disaster has overcome the already beleaguered Border Patrol. Recently, close to 15,000 people, most of them Haitians, gathered under the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas. Thousands camped out in quickly deteriorating conditions, awaiting Border Patrol processing as hundreds more ..............