President Joe Biden officially announced his bid for a second term this week, despite having many policy failures in his first term — from record-high inflation to America’s diminishing global influence. Particularly, Biden’s disastrous open-border policy has caused so much harm to our nation’s security as well as U.S. citizens and migrants’ well-being that even left-leaning corporate media, which usually carry water for him, now demand accountability.
In her most recent report, Hannah Dreier of The New York Times holds the Biden administration responsible for causing the migrant child labor crisis and ignoring data and repeated warnings from concerned government workers and nonprofits. The White House responded by announcing this week that Susan Rice, the most senior White House official responsible for immigration, is stepping down. But Rice’s exit will not end the current crisis because the ultimate responsibility lies with Biden and the immigration policies he supports.
Since he took office, Biden’s open-border policy had led to historically high illegal border crossings, including by more than 250,000 children. Most came from Central America and were either sent by their parents or trafficked by smugglers to the U.S.
In 2021, concerned that the overcrowded shelters would bring bad optics for the Biden administration, Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), urged his staff to speed up releasing migrant children to their American sponsors. His underlings responded by loosening the vetting process of these sponsors.
Concern Among HHS Staff
Some HHS employees soon learned that “children were being released to adults who had lied about their identities, or who planned to exploit them,” the
