Impeach Biden over the Security Catastrophe He’s Caused at the Border

President Biden should be impeached by the incoming House Republican majority over his ongoing destruction of the southern border.

Yes, I know, the votes for a conviction are not there at the moment, and probably won’t ever be: The Constitution requires a two-thirds Senate supermajority to convict and remove an elected official from office, and Biden’s Democratic Party will hold a two-seat majority in the upper chamber for the next two years.

Yet there must be an impeachment investigation and, if Biden fails to change course, articles of impeachment. That would forever stain him, which he deserves; more significantly, it would force the Senate to shut down other business and conduct a trial that would expose the depth of our security catastrophe and the fact that Democrats have willfully caused it.

If Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Mitch McConnell don’t fancy that prospect, here’s a suggestion: Fix the friggin’ border. Oh, and stop ramming through omnibus boondoggles that spend billions on processing and sheltering illegal aliens but explicitly forbid shifting American taxpayer funds to protect Americans by securing the border.

The president’s dereliction of duty has abetted a foreign invasion of, so far, approximately 6 million illegal aliens. A large number of these aliens are released into our country in violation of American law. And mind you, we haven’t even faced the onslaught that awaits the rescission of Title 42, the Covid-era restriction on immigration that the courts have blocked Biden from lifting since May. As I detailed in a column earlier this week, although the Supreme Court has temporarily kept Title 42 in place, its rescission is inevitable because it is a pretext, not a policy. Once it is lifted, the current rate of illegal immigration — an eye-popping 6,785 apprehensions per day, with another 2,000-odd “got-aways” who evade capture as they enter — will grow to somewhere between two and three times as high as it is now.

To provide some perspective, during the Obama–Biden years, the Department of Homeland Security regarded it as a crisis if the number of illegal-alien encounters inched up to 1,000 per day, which computes to 365,000 per year. “A thousand [per day] overwhelms the system,” Obama’s former DHS secretary, Jeh Johnson, acknowledged in a 2019 interview. At the time, the Trump administration was dealing with four times that amount due to a surge in border arrivals by alien family units and unaccompanied alien minors. (The surge was caused by the refusal of congressional Democrats to cooperate in Trump’s signature border-security priority; it was quelled, as Rich Lowry related, because Trump induced cooperation from other countries.)

Thanks to Biden’s wholesale adoption of transnational-progressive radicalism, we are now at seven times the number that Johnson conceded would constitute a crisis. Post–Title 42, we could find ourselves at 18 times that amount, or perhaps even more — and remember, that’s just the apprehensions, not the got-aways.

By what multiple must a president intentionally metastasize a crisis, for the benefit of foreigners and to the ruin of the American people, before he is impeached?

Bear in mind that, to the limited extent illegal aliens are being barred from release into the United States upon being apprehended, Title 42 is the main reason. Most of the rest are released, in violation of American law. For example, in June, of the approximately 240,000 aliens apprehended, about 100,000 were barred under Title 42. That number should be higher, but Biden has watered down Trump’s Title 42 enforcement, admitting unaccompanied minors (including young men who convince border agents that they are under 18), along with most aliens who convince border agents that they are traveling as family units. Of the remaining 140,000 June apprehensions, over 95,000 (i.e., two-thirds) were released into our country. (Most of the rest were subject to expedited removal because of fraud or criminal records that make them instantly excludable.)…..

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