Former US Ambassador to Mexico

As the former US Ambassador to Mexico, I can confirm this. On Day One, the Biden/Harris Administration issued a raft of regulatory policy changes that drastically increased the incentives for illegal migration. The law did not require them to do this—in fact, the law did not…

— Christopher Landau (@ChrisLandauUSA) October 17, 2024

… allow them to do this. For them now to defend their willful actions by saying “the law is broken” is Orwellian. THEY BROKE IT! The “border bill” they love to talk about would have watered down the law by normalizing their defiance of it. Yes, the bill also included some more resources/money for border control—but those resources are needed only because they unleashed this migrant tsunami in the first place. The border catastrophe is not fundamentally a problem of resources but of Biden/Harris executive policy. They should at least have the decency to acknowledge and defend their policy instead of trying to pretend that they were “tough” on the border, which is obviously untrue. Problem for them is that the only conceivable “defense” of allowing in millions of illegal aliens is a deliberate attempt to import what they view as future voters.