Tom Homan is the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation
Nearly three years ago, I sat before a Congressional committee and warned of a coming humanitarian and national security catastrophe on the U.S. southern border.
Today, America is in the grips of it.
‘There’s no downside to less illegal immigration,’ I told the lawmakers back in 2019. ‘There’s no downside to less illegal drugs. There’s no downside to taking money out of cartels’ hands that are murdering our agents.’
I recognized then, based on 34 years of experience as a Border Patrol agent and as President Donald Trump‘s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director, that Democrats were creating dangerous new incentives for desperate men, women and children to risk their lives to get into greatest country in the world.
Sanctuary cites that shielded the undocumented from law enforcement, free medical care and free college educations for the children of illegals were all magnets pulling the world’s poor to America.
At the same time, Biden’s White House was systematically dismantling Trump policies that secured the borders and blocked criminals and terrorists from entering the United States.
It could only end in disaster – and it has.
On Monday, 14,000 migrants rushed Eagle Pass, Texas – a city home to just 30,000 – in just 24 hours. Border security in the region has collapsed and one cannot look at these migrants, huddled with small children, and not think that there must have been a better way.
Democrat TRAITORS !!!!