Biden said in an interview this week that he’s "examining whether or not I have that power" to prevent migrants from illegally forcing themselves across the Southern border, a calamity he is directly responsible for and which he has done nothing of substance to mitigate.
During a 2020 Democrat primary debate, Biden said the United States "should immediately have the capacity to absorb" hordes of migrants making their way north from Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. In another debate, he said, "We’re a nation that says if you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come."
They heard him. They came. Thus began Biden’s reign of border terror. In February 2021, the first full month of his presidency, there were just more than 100,000 illegal migrants apprehended at the border. By December last year, that number had tripled.
The public has gone from concerned to outraged, with immigration surpassing even the economy as Americans’ top concern. Biden hasn’t felt the urgency. To date, his most notable action has been to ask that Congress legalize up to 5,000 illegal border crossers per day. Before that, he asked his ever-competent vice president Kamala Harris to investigate the "root causes" of migration from Central America. (Her staff and activist allies reacted by running to the media complaining the job was too hard.)