There are so many reasons why Americans dodged a bullet when Donald Trump destroyed Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. But probably the biggest one is this: If Harris had won, she would have continued Joe Biden’s open borders fiasco, and we wouldn’t recognize our own country in four years’ time.
Trump immediately ordered the border secured, and it was. Illegal immigration into the U.S. has nearly ground to a a halt. But Biden’s horrific open borders legacy lives on to this day, as we were reminded by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin this week:
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Thursday that the Trump administration has found at least 146,000 migrant children that were unaccounted for during the Biden administration.
A total of 450,000 went missing under former President Joe Biden — and “nearly 300,000” are still unaccounted for, Mullin said at a news conference.
What Mullin revealed should disgust every single American regardless of political affiliation.
“We’re investigating reports to where some of these kids claim that they were raped 6[00] to 700 times,” he added. “I don’t care who you are. I don’t care if you have kids. You don’t have kids. I don’t care if you’re a liberal, you’re independent, you’re a Democrat. You’re Republican.
“If you can’t stand for law enforcement to go find these kids, who are you? Who are you?” Mullin fumed. “And do you know where we’re finding the most of them: sanctuary cities.”
More:
The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General revealed the hundreds of thousands of missing migrant kids in an August 2024 report.
Between fiscal years 2019 and 2023, more than 448,000 unaccompanied minors were in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s custody before being transferred to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services for resettlement with domestic sponsors, the IG’s report found.
Of those, 291,000 migrant children were never issued notices to appear in federal immigration courts after being released from HHS.
Beyond horrendous. This is indictable behavior, or at least, it should be. Presidents who decide not to enforce federal laws should also be held accountable. In this case, enforcing our immigration laws literally would have saved these children from death or what can sometimes be worse than death.
We can lay a lot of this blame at the feet of one of Mullin’s predecessors, Biden DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas. Rather than resign in protest, he readily agreed to implement Biden’s open-border policies, even lying to Congress about the border being “secure.” It got him impeached, but not convicted.
And after he left office, he claimed to have ‘regret‘ about enforcing Biden’s will. Whatever.
