Team Biden must stop gaslighting on ‘secure’ border as crisis is about to get drastically worse

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week again told Congress, “yes,” the border is secure, “and we are working day in and day out to enhance security.” We do not think that word means what he thinks it means.

And the impending end of Title 42, which Team Biden has used to expel more than 1 million of the 2.4 million migrants that the Border Patrol “encountered” last fiscal year, is sure to add to the chaos. The surge is expected to rise to 18,000 a day, or over 500,000 a month.

Even now, the waves have border security hopelessly overstretched, with perhaps half a million illegal migrants a year seen but not “encountered” by Border Patrol — meaning they made it in with no screening at all.

And it’s not just migrants. At the same hearing, FBI chief Christopher Wray admitted, “We see significant criminal threats coming from south of the border — whether it’s guns, drugs, money, violence.” Drug cartels are in overdrive, with fentanyl smuggling out of control.

Wray pointed to a single “vehicle interdiction” in Phoenix that stopped “enough fentanyl to kill the equivalent of the entire state of Pennsylvania.” But lots more is getting through.