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At the outset of the new year, President Joe Biden deserves some acknowledgment for finally doing the bare minimum and visiting the U.S.-Mexico border.
But the mainstream media’s rush to praise his visit as a sign that the president is getting serious about solving the crisis at our southern border is drastically premature. Unfortunately, his administration’s facilitation of massive abuse of the asylum system and the many loopholes in its enforcement policies continue unabated.
Nothing about the president’s visit indicated that he actually intends to work across the aisle to fix this problem.
First, his very choice to visit El Paso speaks volumes. Instead of visiting the Del Rio or Rio Grande Valley sectors where the bulk of illegal immigration takes place and where the men and women of Customs and Border Patrol are stretched incredibly thin every day, Biden went to an urban area with a highly barricaded border that sees a…