Interesting article
As winners never fail to remind losers, elections have consequences. But rarely is there a single day where consequences pack as much wallop as Friday, where the irrationality of Joe Biden’s policies came into full view.
From the border with Mexico, where the new administration started opening the doors to at least 25,000
migrants seeking asylum, to the Mideast tinderbox, where it moved to rejoin the misbegotten
Iran nuke deal, the new president appears fixated by the desire to turn back the clock to 2016.
It’s as if Biden has been seized by a sentimental longing to try to make the world like it was when the
Obama-Biden administration left office. Unfortunately, “The Way We Were” is a nice song but not much of a guide to the future.
Still, trying to recapture the past would be reasonable if those years had created prosperity at home and peace abroad. In fact, the world Donald Trump inherited was bristling with trouble and America’s economy
was moving forward at a snail’s pace.
Despite revisionist efforts by the media and the left to erase the achievements of the
president they hated, Trump had major policy successes that
benefited all Americans. It’s especially unnerving, then, that Biden is choosing to reverse the very policies that produced those benefits.
Trump Derangement Syndrome leads people to do weird things, but Biden’s attempt to cancel Trump’s biggest victories is among the weirdest.
The migrant admittances, through a border crossing in San Diego, came after Biden scrapped his
predecessor’s policy of having asylum-seekers wait in Mexico. The
“Remain in Mexico” program was an effective solution to the endless
stream of caravans of Central Americans that moved north to escape violence and find work in a booming US.
The Obama-Biden policy had been to admit the asylum applicants and turn them
loose pending hearings. Naturally, many never showed up because they knew they could not qualify as refugees
from persecution. But their ability to stay here illegally served as an incentive for others to follow.
Instead of building on the program that reduced mass migrations, Biden returned to the broken system Trump had fixed. Biden also pledges not to build another foot of border wall and pause nearly
all deportations for 100 days.
It goes on a lot more with headscratchers