If something is too good to be true, it probably is. Take Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s response to the worst self-inflicted border security crisis in our lifetime.
The Department of Homeland Security recently put out a self-congratulatory press release announcing that illegal border crossings "plummeted" in January. The release didn’t tell the public how this was accomplished: through a perverse application and violation of the law. The creation of their online system "CBP One" doesn’t address the crisis. It masks it by hiding under a false sense of legality. Rather than enforce the law, deal with those who violate it, and insert integrity back into the system by ending "catch and release," Mayorkas’s new policy further streamlines immigrants' ability to file fraudulent asylum claims and expands DHS’s catch-and-release efforts.
Yes, fewer illegal border crossings between the ports of entry are a good thing. But at what cost? Is it OK to sacrifice the rule of law by encouraging millions of fraudulent asylum claims in an intentional effort to cover up the crisis at our borders? Are we to simply accept the assertions of a secretary who has repeatedly lied and made it his goal to cover up the crisis rather than solve it in any meaningful way?
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