bighairymike: A distinction without a difference. The issue your statement sidesteps is our country is being overrun as a result of Biden's open border policy.

Do you realize how absurd that sounds?

If the majority of migrants trying to cross into the United States at the southern border are being apprehended and turned back, then there is no "open border".

You can't have it both ways. You can't complain that too many border crossers are being apprehended and at the same time complain of an open border.

And Biden doesn't have an open border policy... that's just a flat-out lie.

Biden actually has a new policy in place that likely will equally annoy progressives and hardline conservatives: the administration plans to reject asylum claims from anyone who crosses the border illegally. And the administration will now allow a greater number of migrants into the U.S. from the major sending countries of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela at legal ports of entry, as long as they have a U.S. sponsor to care for them on arrival -- modeled after a similar program in Canada.

This program began with the Uniting for Ukraine initiative, allowing in nearly 300,000 Ukrainian refugees, thousands of whom had been trying to reach the United States via Mexico. They are eligible for stays of up to two years, can work here, and can apply for asylum, if desired.

The program was expanded to Venezuelans in October 2022 and then to Haitians, Cubans, and Nicaraguans in January.

Biden has gotten Mexico to assist, to take back citizens of those countries if they are caught attempting to cross illegally.

Border encounters of Ukrainians trying to cross illegally fell from an average of 940 per day before the initiative to only around one dozen per day.

The number of unlawful crossings by Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans fell from 84,000 last December to just 2,000 in February.

Overall, border apprehensions in January and February fell by 42 percent from the December 2022 record.