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Border Patrol agents rip Biden for ‘way too little too late’ executive order on border crossings: ‘Waste of time’

B order Patrol agents believe President Joe Biden’s last-minute executive order to limit border crossings is “way too little too late” after he’s already allowed millions to enter the US illegally without consequence.

The Biden administration announced an executive order Tuesday claiming it will close the border after illegal migrant encounters hit 2,500 per day between points of entry for seven consecutive days.

Five border agents told The Post the president’s inaction for three and a half years has already resulted in irreparable damage to the country’s national security, and they feel this latest measure is all for show.

“That’s like trying to plug the leak on the titanic with chewing gum. It’s way too little too late. He’s trying to act tough on the border but we know he’s been the most open border administration ever,” one agent said.

Despite the measure being billed as a  “crackdown,” it will still permit 1.75 million new arrivals  to the US, when the 2,500 a day are added to others allowed into the country through the the CBP One phone app, and via humanitarian parole paths.

The order, which is expected to take effect immediately, lifts border restrictions two weeks after the number of crossings averages 1,500 for seven consecutive days, senior administration officials said Tuesday.

Border agents have encountered more than 7.6 million migrants crossing the southern border illegally. An additional 1.7 million migrant “gotaways” are known to have  illegally sneaked over unapprehended  during the Biden administration.

Additionally, roughly 500,000 others have entered the US using the CBP One phone application Biden began using for such purposes.

There have also been over 400,000 migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela who have flown to the US using another parole program also started by Biden.

“What a joke. Like that’s going to stop them. He can enact whatever he wants. Until we deport everyone that crosses or imprison them, it won’t stop,” a second agent said of Biden’s new plan.

Biden’s latest order models a portion of the bipartisan border bill that  failed to pass the Senate in February , which gave the  president authority to expel migrants  when border crossings reached the same daily average.

The bill allowed for the suspension of that authority two weeks after the seven-day average falls to 75% of those levels.

“It’s way too little, too late. Nothing more than virtue signaling,” a third agent said.

“That’s comical,” said a fourth agent. “Millions are in [the US] now and it’s just now that they realize the number of crossings a day is a problem. The damage is done and now the administration wants to slowly close the valve on the flood gates.”

Biden insisted in January he required Congress to approve border legislation before he could take any action on the issue, saying he had “done all I can do.”

“Just give me the power. I’ve asked from the very day I got into office,”  he said at the time . “Give me the Border Patrol, give me the people, the judges — give me the people who can stop this and make it work right.”

The president has since changed his tune with polling consistently showing that ahead of the November presidential election, American voters are increasingly concerned with  illegal immigration  and  enhanced border enforcement  ranked as  a top concern for voters .

“According to him he couldn’t do an executive order for that only Congress? So has he been lying to us? Such a cover your ass waste of time,” a fifth agent said.

Retired Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge of the El Paso Station Clay Thomas also pointed to major loopholes in Biden’s plan that he told The Post smugglers will exploit.

The loopholes include allowing admission for migrants who either make claims of fear of returning to their home countries, are unaccompanied minors, are victims of trafficking or have medical emergencies.

“You just gave them the answer,” Thomas said of the cartels’ operations.

“They already know how to do this and they basically are rewriting their business plan based on what the Biden administration outlined.”

Opinion On immigration, the too-little-too-late president strikes again

If Biden loses in November, voters’ concerns about disorder might be a major reason.

In autopsies of Joe Biden’s presidency, one word will be explanatory: disorder. From urban crime to campus tumults to inflation’s comprehensive disruption — the currency becoming emaciated — Americans fear societal fraying. The most infuriating provocation is immigration. An essential attribute of national sovereignty — control of borders — has been sacrificed on the altar of “equity,” with collateral damage far from the southwestern border. Far-flung communities — their hospitals, their schools — experience the truth that “every state is a border state.”

A young man from Honduras is released into the national interior, where he replicates a pattern as old as immigration, going where other Hondurans have settled, in cities far from the Rio Grande. He has responded to incentives concocted on the banks of the Potomac.

Biden’s syntactical labyrinths are amusing, until they aren’t. In a 2019 Democratic presidential primary debate, he said: “I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard.” They heard him .

When caravans of migrants headed north during Biden’s presidency, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said they considered Biden “the immigrant president.” Many headed for cities that performative progressives had declared “sanctuaries” that would not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Chicago, a sanctuary since 1985 , is now buckling under the cost of its moralizing. In New York, a sanctuary since 1989 , illegal immigration “will destroy” the city, Mayor Eric Adams (D) says. Virtue signaling has costs.

On his first presidential day, Biden committed his administration to “advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.” His Department of Homeland Security said it would apply Biden’s words “in the immigration and enforcement context.”

Writing in City Journal about “a border crisis by design,” Jeffrey H. Anderson, president of the American Main Street Initiative, calls today’s crisis the result of Biden’s “unprecedented refusal to enforce federal immigration law,” which requires that asylum seekers be detained rather than released while their claims are adjudicated.

So, many aliens arriving at Biden’s deliberately porous border sought rather than evaded Border Patrol officers. Anderson says that in December 2020, Donald Trump’s last full presidential month, 17 aliens were released into the nation. Two Decembers later, 191,142 were. Biden’s administration justified this erasure of law as “prosecutorial discretion.” Also writing in City Journal , the Manhattan Institute’s Steven Malanga says, “By late 2022, the immigration court backlog had swelled to 1.6 million people,” who could largely ignore this coagulated process.

In August 2020, officials reported detaining five attempted entries in the El Paso sector, then operating under a presidential order allowing officials to summarily expel illegal border crossers. In August 2022, that order having been rescinded, officials detained 3,453. In Kinney County, Tex., sheriff’s deputies made 67 arrests for smuggling in 2021, but 3,045 in 2022, when security cameras showed about 21,500 people crossing the border with impunity.

Polls have concentrated Biden’s mind. On Tuesday, he announced that he will faithfully execute his executive order intended to contain the wreckage wrought by his refusal to perform his core constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” New restrictions will take effect when illegal crossings exceed 2,500 a day . The arithmetic is: 912,500 (approximately the population of Biden’s Delaware ) in a year could melt into the nation, as under today’s system. Regarding border security, as when combating inflation or aiding Ukraine, Biden is a too-little-too-late president.

Presidents from both parties have become geysers of executive orders, imposing tariffs, essentially banning internal combustion vehicles, forgiving student debts, altering the legal status of millions of immigrants, etc. What fun.

Until it isn’t. Until the public, taught by presidential highhandedness that presidents can do whatever they please, blames them for whatever problems persist. This is both unfair and richly deserved. Today’s Congress, which has been well-described as cable television’s largest green room, escapes blame for the immigration disaster because the public, fixated on the presidency, knows that, for Congress, governance is a spectator sport.

This nation, with an aging population, increasing life expectancy, declining birthrate and entitlements transferring trillions of dollars from employees to retirees, needs lots of legal immigrants to replenish its workforce. That the government cannot provide for this is a failure second only to the nation’s fiscal shambles. In five months, Biden, who is too busy “saving democracy” to attend to mundane matters of public order, might find that the immigration inundation is the most politically lethal of his multiplying failures.

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"A Little Too Late" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Toby Keith that reached the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It was released in April 2006 as the second single from his CD White Trash with Money. Keith wrote the song with his frequent collaborator, Scotty Emerick, and Dean Dillon.

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Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961), best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums—1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin', plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of Mercury Records before leaving Mercury in 1998. These albums all earned gold or higher certification, and produced several chart singles, including his debut "Should've Been a Cowboy", which topped the country charts and was the most played country song of the 1990s. The song has received three million spins since its release, according to Broadcast Music Incorporated. more »

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Biden finally acts on border crisis, showing he could've done something about it all along

Immigration, along with the economy and inflation, has soared to one of the top issues on voters' minds as we head toward the presidential election..

After watching illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border explode throughout his presidency , President Joe Biden has finally decided it’s time to act .

Nearly four years into his term, it feels more than a little late. Apparently, Biden can no longer ignore the polls. 

Biden has hemmed and hawed for years that he’s helpless to slow down border encounters that have more than doubled during his tenure and that he’s reliant on Congress to help out. 

That was always untrue. In his first days in office, after all, Biden used his executive authority to end Trump administration policies like " Remain in Mexico " that were helpful in curbing asylum claims that have overwhelmed our border.

Biden simply chose to ignore the problem. Plus, he didn’t want to pick fights with progressives in his party who’d rather there not be any limits on the border.

That strategy has backfired spectacularly. Biden’s tanking poll numbers are due in no small part to his mismanagement of illegal immigration. 

Border chaos: Trump and Biden keep blaming each other. But voters want solutions, not chaos at border.

Immigration, along with the economy and inflation, has soared to one of the top issues on voters’ minds as we head toward the presidential election. It’s not just a border problem anymore, as cities – often large, Democratic ones like Chicago and New York – are dealing with an influx of migrants.

It’s no surprise that voters trust former President Donald Trump over Biden by double digits on these issues: Trump has a 17-point lead on immigration and a 14-point lead on the economy and inflation, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll from last month .

An executive order with power to shut down border 

Biden reportedly plans to sign the executive order Tuesday, in the presence of several mayors from South Texas.

The order will more strictly cap the number of illegal crossings. If the number of crossings average 2,500 a day , then border officials would be able to quickly expel migrants without a chance for asylum. 

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While numbers have fallen since late last year, they have remained high. In December, there was an all-time monthly record of migrant encounters – 250,000 – crossing into the United States from Mexico. 

In the first three weeks of May, the U.S. Border Patrol reported a daily average of 3,700 apprehensions of migrants , according to internal government data obtained by CBS News.

So Biden’s new order will have immediate consequences if these numbers remain high. 

Could Hunter Biden's trial have played into timing? 

In addition to all the surveys showing Americans don’t trust Biden to handle the border crisis, there could be something else that nudged the president to take action this week.

Trump, who was convicted in his hush money trial Thursday, isn’t the only one in the hot seat. Biden’s son Hunter is in court in Wilmington, Delaware, as his felony gun trial begins . The younger Biden is charged with lying on a federal gun form in 2018 about his drug addiction. A jury was selected on Monday. 

Separately, he faces three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanors in a California federal court after he failed to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes, instead spending the money “ on drugs, escorts and girlfriends .” 

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All of this is bad enough, not to mention the attention Republicans in Congress have brought to Hunter Biden’s shady business deals . 

In other words, it’s embarrassing for the president, who's trying to write off all his son’s bad behavior as a result of his addiction. 

“Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today,” Biden said in a statement .

That may be. But these aren’t the kind of headlines that will buoy a floundering reelection campaign.

So why not try to change the conversation with an executive order on immigration?

Biden’s now taking the right action. He just shouldn’t have waited nearly four years to do it. 

Ingrid Jacques is a columnist at USA TODAY. Contact her at [email protected] or on X, formerly Twitter: @ Ingrid_Jacques .

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Biden finally took executive action Tuesday that will turn away illegal immigrants at the southern border seeking asylum when there is a high volume of daily encounters.

That “high volume” is a seven-day average of daily crossings exceeding 2,500 between ports of entry, according to reports.

Meaning now.

This is too little, too late of course, as cities and states around the county have long taken the strain of paying for the housing and care of migrants, and in certain areas seen an increase in crime, sometimes violent, by the very migrants these cities are trying to help.

“Families seeking a better life” is a thread of the migrant narrative, but it’s not the only one. Some are criminals seeking a new chance to make a quick buck, or bring harm and fear to communities. They’re already here, and Biden’s move won’t do much to ease the problem.

What it does do is pinch the hose a bit, slowing the rate of migrants crossing the border. Which is why the left is furious.

House liberals — particularly those in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus — are blasting Biden’s move, saying it belies America’s historic place as a global refuge for persecuted people, The Hill reported.

“I’m disappointed that this is a direction that the president has decided to take,” Rep. Nanette Barragán (D-Calif.), chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, told reporters in the Capitol Tuesday morning.

Spoken like someone who hasn’t had their neighborhood “selected” to house migrants, and their schools pressed to enroll an influx of students.

As WPRI reported, Sen. Ed Markey called Biden’s order “irresponsible and ill-advised.”

“The United States has long embraced its obligation to provide refuge to people fleeing persecution. People fleeing violence and unstable conditions helped build the United States, and our country has recognized the duty to continue providing vulnerable populations safe harbor. This asylum ban threatens this foundational promise and pushes the United States in the wrong direction,” Markey wrote.

Democrats are blaming Republicans for the problem, as is their wont.

The American Civil Liberties Union is also weighing in, saying Tuesday  it planned to sue the Biden administration over the policy.

“The Biden administration just announced an executive order that will severely restrict people’s legal right to seek asylum, putting tens of thousands of lives at risk,” the ACLU posted on X.

Biden can’t please everyone in his party, and that’s the problem. He’s been trying before he moved into the White House.

He gave disgruntled Bernie Bros. input on his agenda to better match that of their candidate Bernie Sanders, and he’s spent the last three years pandering to a youthful voting bloc. Billions in student loan forgiveness and billions more added to the national debt – it’s not so much what’s good for America, but what will grease the skids for another term as president.

Now, with his move in immigration, Biden’s at a crossroads. Stemming the flow of migrants signals that he’s doing something about the border so burdened Blue State voters will stay with him. But it also makes him vulnerable to those on the left who think the border should be open to all.

That’s what happens when you govern by appeasement rather than direction.

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Fingers Point as Biden Closes Border to Asylum Seekers

The president blamed Donald Trump and Republicans for the failure of a previous immigration plan. Mr. Trump called the new action too little, too late.

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• June 4, 2024

At the beginning of his remarks from the White House on Tuesday announcing that he would prohibit migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border , President Biden tried to make clear just whose fault it was that he was taking action by executive order.

The White House, Mr. Biden said, had struck an agreement with congressional Republicans earlier this year on what he called the “strongest border security agreement in decades.”

It did not take. Republicans bailed on the deal.

“Why? Because Donald Trump told them to,” Mr. Biden said. “He didn’t want to fix the issue. He wanted to use it to attack me. That’s what he wanted to do.”

On this, Mr. Biden proved correct.

Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee set to face Mr. Biden in the general election, indeed attacked the president a couple of hours before his border announcement. Mr. Trump, who has made hard-line immigration policies the center of his political identity since the start of his 2016 campaign, derided Mr. Biden’s executive order as too little action taken too late, and he argued that it was timed to benefit the president politically.

“After nearly four years of his failed weak leadership — pathetic leadership — Crooked Joe Biden is pretending to finally do something about the border,” Mr. Trump said in a video posted to his social media site. “But in fact, it’s all about show, because he knows we have a debate coming up in three weeks.”

The former president’s rhetoric echoed much of the reaction from allied Republicans. The Republican National Committee has adopted the alliterative “Biden’s Border Bloodbath.” Representative Richard Hudson of North Carolina, the chairman of the House Republicans’ campaign arm, predicted that voters would be so angry about the border that “in November they will deport House Democrats from their seats for enabling this crisis.”

And Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, a rival of Mr. Trump’s during the presidential primary who has become a staunch surrogate, criticized the executive order as a “Band-Aid” that would do little to curb border crossings. “President Biden would rather posture than do anything meaningful to secure our southern border,” he said in a statement.

Democratic reaction centered largely on blaming Mr. Trump and Republicans for not taking the deal they had negotiated earlier this year.

“President Biden sent Congress a comprehensive immigration reform plan on Day 1, and repeatedly requested more border resources from Congress, only to be blocked by Republicans,” said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, a key Biden ally whose office listed actions she had taken to “secure the border” with Mexico, which is about 1,500 miles from her home state — though the one with Canada is just across the Detroit River.

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut said he was “skeptical” that Mr. Biden’s executive order would withstand legal scrutiny. Yet he, too, blamed Republicans for forcing the president’s hand.

“Rather than working with Democrats to solve the problem, they’ve ensured we just have more of the dysfunctional status quo when Americans want the exact opposite,” Mr. Murphy said.

Reid J. Epstein covers campaigns and elections from Washington. Before joining The Times in 2019, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Newsday and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. More about Reid J. Epstein

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European countries recognition of Palestine: too little too late?

Marc Lamont Hill discusses the latest move towards recognising Palestinian statehood with analyst Mouin Rabbani.

On May 28th, Norway, Spain, and Ireland will officially recognise Palestine as an independent state, joining the more than 140 other countries that have already done so, in a move they hope will pressure Israel and its allies to find a solution to the war. However, the US and other major Western powers have long opposed unilateral recognition, arguing instead that a two-state solution should come after peace talks.

The announcements have been heavily criticised by Israel, claiming it was “rewarding terrorists”. Meanwhile, Hamas called this new recognition a “turning point”.

Will this mark a significant shift in the West’s position on the conflict? Or is it, as some critics have said, too little, too late?

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