By BILL JUNEAU
When Donald Trump was a candidate for President in 2015 and 2016, he promised that America would build an impregnable wall along the southern border with Mexico. Illegal immigration, he said, was out of hand, and gate crashing aliens included hardened criminals, drug pushers and users.
Trump favored immigration into America, he said, but cautioned that it is imperative that immigrants must enter the USA legally and on merit. A country without borders isn't a country.
President Trump was on the same page as former Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower who welcomed legal immigrants into the USA. Roosevelt called upon immigrants to come into the USA in accord with the rules; and once here, to assimilate, speak English and respect the American Flag.
Americans in great numbers applauded Trump's promise of a wall in key sections along the 1,900 mile southern border with Mexico. Following his election and swearing in, the new President and his administration began working to fulfill the commitment. Despite strong opposition from liberal non-thinkers who resented Trump's election over the disingenuous Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, the wall construction commenced and the President petitioned and shifted funds from one account to another, but eventually found the necessary money to meet the costs of construction of 500 miles of the wall in those areas where barriers were most necessary. With the wall, and border patrol agents and oversight, immigration problems were, under President Trump, brought under control.
Trump had predicted many times, but never promised as has been alleged, that Mexico would pay for the wall, but that did not happen. The administration, however, readjusted tariffs on Mexican goods which actually brought many new millions of dollars into the Treasury. Those funds, Trump said, helped defray the overall costs of the construction.
Eventually, the Trump administration completed some 450 miles of border wall, including some 50 in areas where there was no wall at all, and in other sections in which a strong new wall replaced an existing barrier which was "old and worthless." Contracts were signed and all materials were obtained for completion of a final 100 miles of a wall along the Texas border.
Then, in an election which will always contain the smell of illegality and chicanery, former Vice President and long time U.S. Senator, Joe Biden, was elected President by a narrow margin. Biden, whose bumbling way has become his hallmark, ordered on his first day in office the suspension of all construction, announcing that not "one foot of the wall" will be built with him in charge.
He also said that the USA is open to everyone, so "Come on in." His invitation was heard around Mexico and Central America and the packed caravans and the fording of the Rio Grande got underway in earnest. His word got around.
Observers say that Biden's executive order terminating the construction was heavy with revenge for the outgoing President who had disparaged Biden as an incompetent fool, a clown and a "whack job with a low IQ." Biden's hypocrisy and ill will for Trump was apparent in that in 2006 as a Delaware senator, Biden had favored construction of barriers to prevent illegal border penetration.
The shotgun termination of the construction work violated contracts which had been signed and which provided for damages in event of a breach. Former Border Patrol Chief, Rodney Scott, who had served under Trump and then for five months under Biden, confirmed that under Biden’s thoughtless leadership, U.S. taxpayers are now paying some $5 millions dollars each day “to not” build the border wall. "Money is just trickling away to contractors entitled to damages," he explained in an interview with Bret Baier of Fox News television .
Currently, said Scott, all that is left are “stacks and stacks of border wall panels,” “hundreds of miles of fiber optic cabling,” and “hundreds of cameras that are just sitting there." Biden stopped construction with just 100 miles of wall remaining to be built in hot spot locations alongside Texas. His contribution was wide-open borders.
The massive waste of taxpayers' money by Biden and his behind-the-curtain advisers who pull his strings and write his statements, is petty, wasteful, and outrageous, critics have charged. Even Biden's Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has indicated that he favors completing the Trump wall so as to "plug gaps."
With the suspension of all wall construction, and with the approval of Biden and his security chiefs, more than a million illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America have come into America since Biden became president.Countless thousands have been released into the states. In cases where border control agents have arrested intruders for breaking the law, reputedly, some 32,000 in the past 60 days have been "paroled" and allowed to seek and find shelters on American soil, promising to "return" for a hearing.
Pregnant women, and women who say they are pregnant, are waved in as if by a traffic cop directing motorists. Reportedly they are allowed to board buses and planes for movement to other destinations. Babies born on American soil automatically become citizens and are rewarded with the largess and benefits given to all citizens and to their parents and relatives--no questions asked.
Deadly fentanyl and other drugs are being pushed into the country by cartels as immigrants slip through the dust and the heavy foliage, or walk and paddle their way over the Rio Grande river on to U.S. soil. Thousands of the interlopers are being put up in military barracks and in hotels where they receive meals and other accommodations paid for by Uncle Sam. Supervision and oversight of the immigration movements are almost nil. Tests for Covid-19 are simply ignored. The border is a lawless mess, and everyone knows it.
Why does President Biden allow this border anarchy to go on? Why does he oppose a wall and a system in which immigrants must enter the USA legally? Other countries have walls and laws which prevent open borders. Even the Vatican in Rome is protected by a wall. Could it be the Wall is too strongly associated with the terrible Donald Trump, and therefore its memory must be obliterated--even if it did the job for which it was intended and did it well? President Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill, reside in the security of the White House. They own and frequently visit their multimillion dollar Delaware homes in Greenville and Rehoboth Beach. Everywhere the Biden family goes, there are Secret Service officers watching out for lawless intruders. No Open Door Policy for Slow Joe and Dr. Jill.
By and large, Americans live in homes with secured doors kept shut. Visitors knock and are welcomed in. Intruders who break down the door to enter are arrested and prosecuted.
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