Ignored warnings of “chaos” on the border by President Joe Biden set the stage for the draconian enforcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with National Guard troops on patrol in the cities ICE targets.

A massive New York Times report on the genesis of the current immigration crisis details “a collision between campaign promises and reality on the ground,” until the final year of the Biden administration.

According to documents and interviews in the Times report, Biden and key advisers put politics ahead of border security, concluding Latino and progressive voters supported soft enforcement of immigration law with a moratorium on deportations while only border states like Texas where Trump won easily were affected by the change in policy.

As president, Mr. Biden resolute

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