Editor’s note: Patricia Reed’s uncanny wit is on full display in the following essay. I hope that my readers will take heed and realize that we the people are being played for suckers by both the government and the media on this artificially induced border crisis. If you zoom out and look at the big picture, it becomes clear that the USA is effectively being invaded not just by asylum seekers, or those looking to improve their lives, but by able bodied young men from China whose intention begs the questions, “Who sent them? Who’s supporting them? And, why?” Be sure to check out Dr. Drew’s interview of Bret Weinstein linked HERE. And now, here’s Patsy:
Two little words--”executive orders”--were mysteriously missing from Joe Biden's SOTU.
He has not always been shy about using those words. When he first took office in 2021, he positively (and repeatedly) chortled about how he was using Executive Orders to the max, to reverse everything that Donald Trump had done.
Among Biden's Executive Orders were over 100 “emergency” orders reversing all the policies which Trump had put in place to control immigration. Biden bragged about doing that. He bragged loudly, repeatedly, and on the record. It is no secret.
In the three years since Biden did sign those Executive Orders, illegal immigration has increased exponentially. It has exploded. There is no debate about that.
Is this explosion good or bad? For a long time, the Biden administration insisted that it was GOOD. We were told that immigrants (whether legal or illegal, who cares about the law anyway--this from the administration that pompously proclaims that it has “restored the rule of law”) --anyway, whether legal or illegal... immigrants are an absolute, unqualified GOOD.
No matter how many, no matter how unvetted-- no matter, even, how unvaccinated! They are GOOD. Period. If you do not agree, you must be a racist... because what other reason could you possibly have?
Well, sure. None that we can think of.
Oh, wait. That pesky law. I mean, illegal immigrants are illegal, right?! Isn't the President supposed to uphold the existing law as it stands—not “uphold” it selectively? Upholding the existing law is what the Executive Branch does. It does not make the laws. It executes them.
The Executive Branch executes the laws which the legislative branch (Congress) has legislated into law. That's what Constitutional Separation of Powers is all about. That's what we used to learn in Civics class (before Civics class was largely abolished).
So, if Biden does not like the existing laws, he can lobby Congress to change those laws. If, instead of respectfully requesting to change the law, the President simply ignores the existing law... he thereby becomes just one more lawbreaker. Who should therefore be removed from office.
But back in 2021, a newly (s)elected Biden was feeling confident. He was sure he did not have to worry about being removed from office. So, like a child in a new play-pen, he amused himself by signing Executive Orders-- which are supposed to be done only in an emergency, and only on a short-term basis. No matter that there was no emergency (until he created it), and the orders were not short-term.
Now, after three long years of us all experiencing the grim reality of all those policies which Biden created by Executive Order... the border situation is obviously much, much worse.
So now, Biden says “Oh golly gee, maybe this didn't turn out exactly the way I planned it, maybe there is a teeny weeny problem, but I cannot fix the problem unless Congress passes this here law that my people so helpfully wrote.” (A law which happens to have more loopholes than Swiss Cheese.)
Huh? Biden did not need (or even ask) for Congress's help in creating the Border mess. And Biden does not need Congress's help to fix the Border mess... a mess which Biden himself (not Congress, not anyone else) created. Biden mutters that he inherited a “broken system”--the fact that it got a thousand times worse on his watch has nothing to do with him! It's just some weird coincidence! Therefore, he cannot fix it. Sorry.
Even though he tells us he can (and surely will) find the cure for cancer. He can (and surely will) stop Russia from “taking over the world”. He can (and surely will) bring peace to the Middle East. He claims that he can do all those things-- and if we just elect him again, he WILL do all those things!
But the border? Somehow, mysteriously, he has very little power over that.
Enough of this crap, Mister President.
Two little words: “Executive Orders”. Say their name, Mister President. Say their name. Acknowledge their reality. And then pick up that pen.
The same one that you used before to DESTROY our country's operational control of the border. Only this time... use it to make legal, Constitutional, effective American control of America's own border a reality. Like every other country in the world does.
If you want Congress to eventually codify the necessary changes, fine. Whatever.
But in the meantime, pick up that pen. And do your job.
Just do it.