LARRY KUDLOW: Biden and Mayorkas decided Trump was right about this

After allowing roughly 5 million wage-cutting, rent-spiking, law-breaking, sex- and drug-trafficking, terrorist-threatening illegal migrants to come across an open border since January 2021, President Joe Biden and his Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have now decided — wait for it… wait some more — that Donald Trump was right all along. “Build that wall” — sort of.  Remember this, from just a couple of years ago. Take a listen:

MODERATOR: Trump campaigned on build that wall. Are you willing to tear that wall down?

JOE BIDEN: No, there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration. Number one. Number two, what I’m going to focus on, the fact is that somebody in this group written a lot about the border. I’m going to make sure that we have border protection, but it’s going to be based on making sure that we use high tech capacity to deal with it and at the ports of entry.

That was a campaign promise, but 5 million illegals later, Mr. Biden’s kind of slow on the trigger, don’t you think?  Sort of like closing the barn door after the horses have already escaped. I think they’re only talking about less than 20 miles of new wall and even that seems to be to assist border authorities in babysitting the illegals as they cross into the U.S. But with half of the Democrats in some kind of revolt against the illegal migrants’ invasion of America, Joe Biden is desperately trying to put out a big political fire.   

I don’t really believe a word of this stuff, but,yesterday, the DHS inserted the following into the federal register: “There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States.” So, hold on.  

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U.S. President Joe Biden (AP Newsroom)

Does Biden agree with his own DHS that we need to finish the wall? Nope, of course not. It’s just all a phony media stunt. Here’s the proof — listen and weep:  

BIDEN: I’ll answer one question on the border wall. The border wall where money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get through the re-appropriate, to redirect that money. They didn’t. They wouldn’t and, in the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for whatever is appropriate. I can’t stop that.

REPORTER: Do you believe the border wall works?

BIDEN: No.

Let’s move on. Mayorkas and other administration people are harping on the need to waive 26 federal laws, including the Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act and Endangered Species Act. Imagine that! Laws. The one federal law they’re not worried about breaking is the law that protects our borders by preventing illegal entries or, in other words, the law that protects American sovereignty.   

They’ve been breaking that law for three years. I don’t hear anybody talking about that. In an interview with Brooke Singman of FOX News Digital, former President Trump said, “Biden sees our country is being invaded. What is he going to do about the 15 million people from prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums, and terrorists that have already come into our country?”  

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On Truth Social, the former president is demanding an apology. Good luck on that, sir. Mr. Trump repeats that Biden has to reinstate Remain in Mexico and Title 42 in order to get serious about closing the border. The former president built close to 500 miles of a new border wall and the whole thing could’ve been finished by now if Biden had any horse sense.   

Mr. Trump supports catch-and-deport to go along with “Remain in Mexico,” Title 42, and a completed border wall.  If Joe Biden met those conditions, things would be a lot different, but, no matter what phony election-cycle promises Biden is making, the reality is the Biden Democrats remain in favor of open borders. Nothing’s going to change that. Period. 

This article is adapted from Larry Kudlow’s opening commentary on the October 5, 2023, edition of “Kudlow.”