Joe Biden’s double-crossed open border supporters should not be so upset with the president’s flipflop in resuming construction of Donald Trump’s border wall.
It has nothing to do with him.
It is true that candidate Biden did promise that there would not be “another foot” of the wall built if he became president.
“There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration,” he said in August 2020.
And on his first day in office, he halted all construction of the wall being built under Trump, which was to stretch along much of the country’s 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico.
Subsequently, the country has been deluged with millions of illegal immigrants, along with the fentanyl that some smuggle.
Under Biden’s grudging administration, though, some 20 miles of new wall will go up in the “high illegal entry” area in Rio Grande Valley sector of Southeast Texas where thousands of illegal immigrants have been crossing weekly.
If you look at it Joe Biden’s way, though, he is right. It’s not his fault. He is not responsible for a single foot of the new wall going up.
Walls, he believes, are racist and don’t work anyway. It has nothing to do with him, even though he is the president.
So, if he is not responsible for putting up the new wall then who is? “They” are, he said.
Who are “they” forcing him to go against his anti-wall principles?
Congress, of course.
You see, there just happens to be billions of dollars for new wall construction laying around that was appropriated, but not spent, in 2019 for border wall construction in south Texas.
Biden said he tried to get Congress to redirect the funding but failed.
“The money was appropriated for the border wall,” he said. “I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect the money. They didn’t. They wouldn’t. In the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriate for. I can’t stop that.”
What a pathetic joke. It is also a pathetic and desperate attempt by a failed president to get people to buy into the myth that he is doing something about securing the border while appeasing fellow progressives by blaming Congress for forcing him to patch up a piece of the wall.
He expects his supporters will buy his explanation, and they probably will.
These are the same people who have bought into the Biden administration lies that the border is secure even as millions of unvetted immigrants have poured in the county straining humanitarian resources across the nation.
Biden is lucky that Hamas terrorists, or other terrorists, have not yet crossed the southern border the way they have in Israel. However, this year U.S. border agents have encountered a “growing number of individuals” on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist trying to cross the southern border, according to Department of Homeland Security data.
The deadly Hamas invasion of Israel from Gaza should serve as a lesson to the U.S.
Israel, like the U.S. was supposed to have a secure border with Gaza. Yet the Hamas terrorists shot their way in, capturing towns, massacring civilians and taking hostages. In the U.S. you can just simply walk in.
People should note that the attack on Israel came at a time when the country, like the United States, is seriously politically divided. In Israel the division is over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to curtail the powers of its Supreme Court.
In the U.S. division is everywhere.
The difference is that Netanyahu takes responsibility, is willing to stand up for what he believes and take the heat.
Biden, an old political con artist, dissembles, blames everyone else and hides.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
