Let’s get one thing straight right now: the immigration disaster that has been consuming this country for years didn’t start on January 20, 2025. It started the moment Joe Biden shuffled into the Oval Office in 2021 and began systematically dismantling every single border security measure that President Trump had painstakingly put in place. And Kamala Harris — the woman Biden appointed as his so-called “Border Czar” — did absolutely nothing except avoid the southern border like it was radioactive.
President Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to amplify exactly this point, sharing a New York Post opinion piece that lays the blame for America’s ongoing immigration chaos squarely where it belongs: on the Biden-Harris administration. And he’s right. The legacy media can spin, deflect, and gaslight all they want, but the timeline doesn’t lie.
Biden Didn’t Just Fail — He Actively Opened the Gates
Within hours of taking office in January 2021, Biden signed a blizzard of executive orders that gutted border enforcement. He halted construction of the border wall. He ended the Remain in Mexico policy — formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols — which had been one of the most effective tools in stopping asylum abuse. He terminated the agreements with Northern Triangle countries that required migrants to seek asylum in the first safe country they reached. He froze deportations.
The message sent to the world was unmistakable: Come on in. Nobody’s stopping you.
And they came. By the millions. Border Patrol agents were overwhelmed. Detention facilities were packed beyond capacity. Fentanyl poured across the border in quantities that would have been unthinkable during the Trump years. Cities across America — from Eagle Pass to Chicago to New York — were buckling under the weight of an engineered humanitarian and security crisis.
None of this happened by accident. It happened because of deliberate policy choices made at the highest levels of the Biden White House. Every broken family, every overwhelmed school district, every American community forced to absorb the consequences of open-border ideology — that’s Biden’s legacy. That’s Harris’s legacy.
Kamala Harris: The Border Czar Who Never Showed Up
Perhaps the most damning symbol of the left’s complete abdication of responsibility was Kamala Harris’s tenure as the administration’s point person on border issues. Appointed in March 2021, Harris spent months dodging questions about when she would visit the southern border. When she finally did make a trip, she went to El Paso — a relatively calm stretch — and only after then-President Trump announced he was going there first.
During her time as Border Czar, Harris’s strategy amounted to holding photo-op meetings in Central America and talking about “root causes” while the actual border hemorrhaged. She never produced a plan. She never produced results. And when she ran for president in 2024, she tried to run away from the very record she had helped create.
The American people weren’t fooled. They voted for Trump in overwhelming numbers, handing him a mandate to fix the disaster Harris and Biden had made.
Trump Is Cleaning Up the Mess — And the Left Can’t Stand It
Since returning to the White House, President Trump has moved with urgency to restore order at the southern border. Enforcement is up. Illegal crossings have dropped dramatically. The wall is being built. Deportations are being carried out. The message to the world has changed back to what it was during Trump’s first term: America enforces its laws.
And yet, despite all of this, the mainstream media and Democratic politicians continue trying to pin the consequences of the Biden-era chaos onto Trump. They report on overcrowded detention conditions — conditions that exist because Biden let millions pour across the border unchecked. They wring their hands about enforcement actions — enforcement that would have been largely unnecessary had Biden not invited the crisis in the first place.
It is a masterclass in dishonest framing, and the American people are tired of it.
Consider what Trump inherited:
- Years of unchecked illegal border crossings at historic levels
- A broken asylum system flooded with fraudulent claims
- Hundreds of thousands of migrants released into the interior with little tracking
- Fentanyl and other deadly drugs flowing through unguarded corridors
- Criminal cartels that had effectively taken operational control of large stretches of the border
That’s what Biden and Harris handed America. That’s the pile of rubble Trump is now rebuilding from.
Bottom Line
The immigration chaos that America has been living through is not a mystery, and it does not have a mysterious author. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris built this crisis deliberately, policy by policy, executive order by executive order. They reversed what was working because it had Trump’s name on it, and they paid no political price for years while American communities suffered the consequences.
President Trump is right to keep making this point loudly and clearly. As long as the media and the left keep trying to rewrite the history of the border catastrophe, the American people need a leader willing to tell the truth. The New York Post said it plainly, and Trump amplified it: blame immigration chaos on Biden and Harris — not Trump.
The record is the record. And it doesn’t lie.
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