President Biden proclaimed January as Human Trafficking Prevention Month this past Friday. That statement leaves a lot of people scratching their heads.

Recently at least “12,600 migrant encounters have taken place in just 24 hours at the southern border in the US - the highest single-day total ever recorded.” Migrant encounters at our southern border in December reached 276,000. This was the highest-ever monthly total at the southern border. Since October 1, the country’s let in 760,000 illegal migrants. In fiscal 2023, CBP encountered more than 3.2 million migrants. In fiscal year 2022, over 2.76 million migrants illegally crossed our southern border with Mexico. This past September NYC Mayor Adams warned that the raging migrant crisis will “destroy” New York City and he is talking about approximately “only” 110,000 migrants.

President Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, said in 2019 that under their administration, 1,000 apprehensions was a crisis. Johnson said when he oversaw the department, he would be “put in a bad mood if over 1,000 people were appended at the border in a given day.”

As a result of a court order related to the separation of migrant children from their families and evidence drug cartels were using children to create fake family units to sneak illegal immigrants across the border, DNA testing was originally implemented in the Trump era and utilized by Customs Border Protection. President Biden ended the DNA screening on May 31, 2023. Why would he do that? Isn’t the earlier court order still in place?

Last month, a new report estimates “Joe Biden’s mismanaged migrant crisis is costing US taxpayers an eye-watering $451 billion a year.”

Biden’s Human Trafficking Prevention Month proclamation rings hollow. Instead, perhaps he should first close the border and then sit down with the DC “Gang of Eight”, the senior members of both parties, and not establish a commission but actually do the “nitty gritty” work of writing legislation that both parties would support and finally address America’s legal immigration system before the border is re-opened. Isn’t that what we elected these Senators, Representatives and President to do? It has to be cheaper than what’s taking place now. In 1954, President Eisenhower deported 13 million individuals. Will we see anything like that happen again?