Joe Biden Voted to Require DHS to Achieve “Operational Control” of the Border in 2006; It Is Still the Law
Border Patrol Agent: ‘We’ve Surrendered the Border’
By Andrew R. Arthur on August 5, 2021
During an August 3 report from La Joya, Texas, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin stated he had been told by an agent: “We’ve surrendered the border.“ Melugin’s segment, replete with pictures of migrants simply walking into the United States and large numbers of them massed under a bridge in the nearby town of Mission, confirms that agent’s assessment. The president made a political deal in 2006 that required DHS to achieve “operational control” of the border, and the bill for that deal has come due.
As I explained on July 16, Border Patrol agents apprehended more migrants in the months of April, May, and June than in any month in the last 21 years. Those apprehensions have been increasing since April 2020 (at the height of Covid pandemic shutdowns), but they were turbocharged beginning in February.
In January, agents made almost 78,500 apprehensions, but the next month, apprehensions broke the 100,000-mark when nearly 102,000 migrants were encountered by Border Patrol at the Southwest border. That was the first time that apprehensions there had exceeded 100,000 since a surge in May 2019.
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