Staff Reports
The Biden administration has been puffing up its feathers, proudly declaring their new immigration rule as a big ol’ cornerstone of their border policy. But guess what? It ain’t doing squat to fix the mess at the border. Nope, not even close.
Spendy screening: Why a key Biden rule isn’t slowing down overflow at the border https://t.co/EdD5N3qcne https://t.co/EdD5N3qcne
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 28, 2024
You see, this fancy rule was supposed to sniff out those weak claims for protection, like people yapping about race, religion, and political opinion. But lemme tell ya, the plan’s gone more wonky than a three-legged horse at the Kentucky Derby. They thought it would put the brakes on all them illegal immigrants flooding in, but it’s like trying to stop a leaky faucet with a Band-Aid.
The Biden bunch yanked off a pandemic-era asylum restriction back in May and thought this new rule would be the bee’s knees. But golly gee, due to a shortage of staff, they’ve barely managed to do these screenings on a teeny-tiny fraction of the folks they’ve arrested. What a blunder!
Now, some fella named Blas Nunez-Neto, who’s a big shot over at homeland security, tried to put lipstick on this pig by blabbering on about how the rule is working just swell and has even put a dent in the number of border run-ins. But let’s look at the facts, folks. Only 59% of asylum-seekers made it through the enhanced screening from June to September, compared to a whopping 85% over the last five years. That’s somethin’ alright, but get this—they only interviewed about 57,700 immigrants with this new process, and that’s just a drop in the bucket compared to the nearly 365,500 who were loosed by Border Patrol during the same four months.
Now, you’d think that the lawmakers would be scramblin’ to beef up the border, but nope! A snazzy new border security bill bit the dust in the Senate, and it had all sorts of goodies in it, like 4,338 fresh asylum officers, 1,500 beefy Border Patrol agents, and 100 immigration judges. But no dice. It was back to square one.
The Washington Examiner tried to poke the Department of Homeland Security for a comment, but we reckon they’re busy tryin’ to figure out how to clean up this hullabaloo they’ve made.
