Biden officials are still lying about immigration

“I was very pleased that in June of 2024, we took executive action that, I thought, made reforms that were sensible and proved successful,” Mayorkas responded. “Our tougher border stance was coupled with an increased focus on providing lawful pathways for people to arrive in the United States outside the hands of smugglers. Those two combined dropped our numbers by 70, 75 percent.”

This is a fabrication. In June 2024, the month the executive action was announced, 130,415 migrants were intercepted crossing the southern border. By December 2024, Biden’s last full month in office, apprehensions had fallen to 96,000. That is a decline, but of only 25%, not the 75% Mayorkas claims.

Southern border apprehensions peaked in December 2023 at 301,981, and fell to 96,000 by December 2024, a 70% decline. But unless Mayorkas is also claiming to have invented time travel, he cannot use a June 2024 executive order to take credit for a decline in border apprehensions that began six months earlier.

The reality is that the Biden administration, and most particularly Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, reached a secret deal with Mexico in December 2023 under which they agreed not to announce their immigration executive order until after Mexico’s June 2024 election. In exchange, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador agreed to crack down on migrants moving north toward the border. It was Mexico’s stepped-up enforcement, not Biden’s executive order, that caused border apprehensions to fall.

Democrats argue that Biden’s new “lawful pathways” for migrants to enter the country were essential to securing Mexico’s cooperation. But Trump has proved that claim false. Trump ended all of Biden’s illegal parole programs, and instead of rising, border apprehensions fell to their lowest levels ever. Under Trump, zero migrants have been released into the U.S. after being apprehended crossing the southern border for 11 straight months. Before Trump, no president had ever achieved that for even a single month.

The Democratic Party and its supranational allies are plotting to reverse Trump’s successful immigration policies. The United Nations this week hosted the second International Migration Review Forum to check member countries’ progress in implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration. Like Mayorkas, the Global Compact on Migration seeks to “expand regular pathways” for migrants, not to help countries keep out migrants if they do not want them. “Migrant documentation shouldn’t be a privilege,” one Global Compact delegate said, arrogating national democratic sovereignty, “it should be an accessible right.”

Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Global Compact on Migration during his first term in office. Biden reversed that policy and rejoined it, then gave billions of taxpayer dollars to the U.N. High Commission for Refugees to build migrant aid centers throughout Latin America that were expressly designed to help migrants come to the U.S. using Biden’s illegal parole programs — what Mayorkas calls “lawful pathways.”

Biden’s parole programs had no basis in statute. They were an illegal abuse of executive power. While Biden was in office, his CBP One app and CHNV parole programs brought in about 75,000 migrants per month, or about 1 million per year. Since there is no statutory basis for these programs, Democrats could double the numbers unless Congress takes action.

The only thing stopping Democrats from colluding with the U.N. to erase our borders is the Trump administration. In response to the International Migration Review Forum’s meeting this week, the Trump administration released a statement calling the Global Compact on Migration an effort “to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.”

“UN agencies systematically facilitated mass migration into America and Europe, even as citizens of these nations called for restrictions on migration,” a statement from the State Department read. “UN agencies — working with the NGOs they fund — established a migration corridor through Central America and to the U.S. border,” the statement continued.

“The United States will not legitimize global compacts that enable mass migration into America or Western nations,” the statement concluded. “Under President Trump, the State Department will facilitate remigration — not replacement migration.”

Asked point-blank by Bret Baier in 2022 whether it was the objective of the Biden administration to reduce illegal immigration, Mayorkas said it was not.

“It is the objective of the Biden administration to make sure we have safe, legal, and orderly pathways for individuals to be able to access our legal system,” Mayorkas said.

The Global Compact on Migration is the kind of international agreement that reminds us how essential the nation-state is to democracy and self-government. Left unchecked, international elites and their Democratic Party allies flood communities with millions of migrants from around the world every year. The goal of Democrats is to manage this flow, not to end it.