President Joe Biden's performance over his first month has been a mixed bag in many ways, including national security. According to this "report card" on Biden's performance, his worst problem is his laxity regarding the US-Mexico border:
10. Reducing undocumented migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico by 85 percent:
No policy was arguably as important to Trump [as] securing our southern border, and he delivered on it starting early in his tenure, from building over 450 miles of a border wall, to instituting a “remain in Mexico” policy that mandated asylum-seekers remain outside the United States while they await their status.
Biden reversed both of those on his first day in office. He called the border wall “a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security,” and has long called the remain in Mexico policy “inhumane.”
The result? A surge of over 100 percent in illegal border crossings over this time last year. Now Biden is proposing an eight-year pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants that many fear will itself be a magnet for more illegal immigration as migrants try to get to the United States to benefit from it. Make no mistake, there could be no clearer contrast between Trump and Biden in the area of national security than on border policy.
Biden obviously has no clue what constitutes a "genuine threat." That's extremely bad news for the country as a whole.
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