Biden’s border crisis demands switch to ‘catch and detain’ policy. Here’s how it would work

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“I would in fact make sure that… we immediately surge to the border all these people seeking asylum,” Joe Biden said on Sept. 12, 2019.

Now, as president, Joe Biden has fulfilled this promise, erasing any pretense of an actual southern border separating the United States from the rest of the world. 

This policy has put America at risk. In the wake of the Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of over 1,400 Israeli civilians, including innocent children and at least 33 American citizens, the risk Biden’s irresponsible border policy presents to the domestic safety of American families is clear.  

Joe Biden has erased any pretense of an actual southern border separating the United States from the rest of the world. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci | David Peinado/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

It is now likely that terrorist cells are already operating in this country. At least 169 people on the terrorist watchlist were captured by Border Patrol in 2023, and San Diego’s Border Control recently warned that “foreign fighters… may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the U.S…. through Mexico.” 

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It is well

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