If you were to ask President Joe Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, or White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, they'd tell you America has no border crisis, the border is "closed" to illegal immigrants, and things are under "operational control."
To Americans living along the U.S.-Mexico border, in cities where the Biden administration has flown in illegal immigrants under cover of night, and really anyone with eyes, however, it's clear that one of Biden's worst crises has had devastating consequences. And things are only going to get worse this week when Title 42 expires on Thursday night.
The Biden administration, of course, has relied on its allies in the mainstream media to parrot their denials of any issues at the border, but Townhall hasn't bought the president's lies and instead has reported the ugly and often terrifying truth of Biden's border policies.
Reporting from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border — in locations that President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have refused to go — Townhall has shown what's really happening, not the sanitized and polished version of events the White House hopes Americans will accept.
Starting the week President Biden took the oath of office in January 2021, Townhall's Julio Rosas has been reporting from the border as the administration began dismantling the border security plans and policies implemented under former President Donald Trump.
Less than one month into office, Townhall reported how local authorities in border states, such as Arizona's Pinal County, were warning that Biden's policies were creating an "emerging border crisis." While Biden continued undermining border security, Townhall was embedded with officials experiencing an increase in human and drug smuggling activity as it spread farther into the United States. By February 8, 2021, it was clear: Joe Biden's immigration and border crisis was just beginning.
Townhall reported on Biden's border crisis COVID hypocrisy that saw illegal immigrants get exempted from pandemic protocols for testing and vaccines and other restrictions, setting off public health alarms along the border as the number of illegal immigrants surged and local health facilities grew overwhelmed while COVID and other diseases spread like wildfire through holding facilities.
Exclusive: I obtained videos from this month showing the overcrowding at a Border Patrol holding facility in the Yuma Sector as the area continues to see large groups illegally cross into the US.
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) December 20, 2021
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By mid-February, Townhall warned of Biden's plan to begin releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants per day into San Diego, El Paso, and Brownsville. As Biden continued to implement incentives for illegal immigrants to cross the border, Townhall traveled south of the border to talk to those trying to enter the United States. They made it clear: Biden's policies were their impetus for illegally crossing into the U.S.
Even as federal agencies such as Customs and Border Protection warned President Biden at the end of February 2021 that his policies would lead to more than 10,000 unaccompanied minors illegally entering the United States, the administration refused to remedy its dangerous policies.
By March 2021, Townhall reported one of many disastrous milestones: more than 100,000 illegal immigrants had been apprehended during Biden's first full month in office. Still, administration officials told Americans that "the border is not open." A shameless Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas even defiantly declared that the U.S.-Mexico border was "secure."
Again on the ground along the border, Julio reported on Biden's reopening of detention facilities to hold a surging number of illegal immigrant children and the administration's decision to ban him from observing and reporting on the conditions inside. The Biden administration could see that the border crisis was spiraling out of control just months into its tenure, and it wanted to do everything possible to ensure only its approved (and false) narrative was available to the American people.
Townhall, however, did not stop covering the crisis or its devastating effects. Julio continued amplifying warnings of the "incredible strain" Biden's abandonment of border security had created for federal agents who risk their lives to secure a border their president no longer cared about.
Exclusive: Assignment logs for Border Patrol's Yuma Station I obtained confirm few agents are actually patrolling the border. Most are processing or transporting.
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) December 15, 2021
"Border Patrol no longer does border enforcement. It does border enrollment."https://t.co/P5Axv7ESUk
Even as the administration fought to suppress stories, access, and the reality unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border, Townhall kept telling the truth and giving our readers the unvarnished reality of an international border that had been turned over to violent cartels.
While the Biden administration continued its head-in-the-sand posture toward the border crisis, Townhall introduced its readers to "gotaways" in April 2021, illegal immigrants who are seen or detected but are not apprehended when they unlawfully enter the United States.
Even as the number of illegal immigrants continued to surge, month after month, due to Biden policies, his administration reduced the number of deportations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to an all-time low. Meanwhile, Townhall warned that illegal immigrants released into the United States were failing to check in with ICE, and there was little effort by the Biden administration to track down a growing number of vanishing illegal immigrants.
Townhall continued reporting at the increasingly overwhelmed U.S.-Mexico border while Biden backed himself into a corner by claiming it was "closed" to illegal immigration. Each story Julio filed from the border was a direct refutation of Biden and his administration's claims.
Past midnight in Roma, TX right by the Rio Grande, smugglers brought over people into the United States from Mexico. No law enforcement on the riverbank, they were staged further inland. pic.twitter.com/19rfQiVt3d
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) June 29, 2021
Deadly drugs surged across the unsecured border in record numbers, and even some Democrats in Congress criticized the president and vice president for refusing to even visit the border as the White House's attempts to keep the border crisis and its consequences quiet fell apart, due in part to Julio's tireless reporting. Even when Harris finally visited Texas, she didn't see the border and the very real crisis in order to maintain her denials.
Harris and Biden continuously demonstrated little concern for the safety of Americans along the border, the federal agents who risk their lives trying to accomplish their increasingly impossible task or even the lives of illegal immigrants they claim to care about.
When the Biden administration tried to smear border agents with what was clearly a concocted left-wing narrative about illegal immigrants being whipped by mounted agents, Townhall was again on the ground in Del Rio to report the truth.
From the "whipgate" hoax to the number of dangerous sex offenders, previously deported felons, violent cartel members, and individuals on terror watch lists illegally entering the country and slipping away from authorities, Townhall has told the truth about Biden's border crisis for more than two years. At the same time, corporate media and Democrats continued to turn a largely blind eye to the death and devastation along the U.S.-Mexico border.
This week, ahead of the expiration of Title 42, Julio is again at the border near El Paso, Texas, where conditions have rapidly deteriorated with the latest surge of illegal immigrants.
Townhall's often-exclusive coverage was, at many points over the past 28 months, the only way for Americans to learn the truth about the border and Biden's botched handling of the crisis that continues to worsen. Julio's stories, reporting trips, and Townhall's larger work to hold the Biden administration accountable was only possible due to the direct support of Townhall's VIP members.
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