Biden’s border policy explained in 2 charts

Over in the comments section of my website, Tom A. has posted a lengthy and detailed — as always — response to one of my posts, in which I blamed the current border crisis entirely on President Joe Biden, and speculated he deliberately created an Open Border policy.

Tom did a lot of digging, and there a lot of complexity to the issue — such as border “encounters,” versus “crossings,” versus “deportations” and the difference between flat-out illegals, who evade authorities, and the so-called asylum seekers, who willingly surrender. The best answer I can give is this chart:

Once you strip away all the verbiage, all the double-talk, all the political maneuvering, you are left with a chart that shows “encounters” have EXPLODED since Biden took office. And “encounters” means people stopped by authorities. It does not count the so-called “get-aways,” the people who evaded authorities. And almost all of those stopped are admitted to the U.S., rather than being held in Mexico. When just about everyone gets it, that is Open Borders, no matter what Biden says or does. The chart is irrefutable.

In case you forgot, George W. Bush became president in 2001, and the encounter numbers began to plummet. The steep slide continued under President Barack Obama, who took office in 2009. In fact, the Open Borders types referred to Obama as the “great deporter.”
The numbers reached a nadir under Donald J. Trump, there was a slight rise, followed by a quick descent.

Biden entered the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2021.

As you can see, he immediately took an axe, in an unprecedented attack, to executive orders of his predecessor. It was historic. And pig-headed, and vengeful. As if nothing Trump had done made any sense.

And the “encounter’ numbers reached unprecedented highs, and are continuing to rise, month after month.

i can only speculate on Biden’s motives — revenge against Trump? Sympathy for migrants’ plight? Trying to seed future Democrats? I don’t know.

What I do know is the historic numbers are frightening, our immigration laws are shattered, and for Biden to deny it, or for his mule-like Secretary of Homeland Security to claim the border is closed, well, he’s just a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.