Commentary | America’s safest flank at Canadian border is now being penetrated – By Editorial Staff (Washington Times) / Feb 25, 2023
If President Biden is going to keep up with the migration crisis, he’s going to have to step up his game.
After nearly two years in office, Mr. Biden finally showed up last month on the southwestern U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, where he made the bold move of gazing across the Rio Grande, a crossing point where many migrants have lost their lives and U.S. personnel have risked theirs.
While the gesture was appreciated, it was too little, too late. Much too late. The president’s January trip came in the wake of 718,000 illegal migrant crossings since the start of fiscal 2023, a sweeping number for a little over three months.
Many of the immigrants crossing into the U.S. are fleeing repressive countries such as Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Mr. Biden had hoped to tighten that valve by announcing the U.S. would grant asylum to 30,000 refugees each month from each country. But now Mr. Biden has a new problem.
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