How is it that President Biden’s Administration will not call the migration event at the US Southern border a CRISIS, and yet the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been ordered (Saturday, March 13) by President Biden to provide assistance to the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency?

This is a true oxymoron — Biden says there is no CRISIS and yet the US premier agency whose mission is to manage US CRISES/DISASTERs is called in to assist.

Are clues that point to this continuing event being a CRISIS missed or purposefully ignored by the Biden Administration? Of course not! It’s silly to think otherwise, since the real reason in our US society today is always politics. No more, no less.

But stick with my logic for a bit to see how foolish it is to refuse to call this event what it really is, a CRISIS.

The foremost descriptive word in the title of the FEMA agency is EMERGENCY, which is a synonym for CRISIS in the Merriam Webster Thesaurus.

Also, my understanding from first-hand experience riding out Hurricane Katrina and reading FEMA’s official website “capstone doctrine” about its mission is that “FEMA exists to help people, before, during, and after DISASTERs. This is [its] mission.”

The last time I checked, CRISIS is a precursor to DISASTER, and therefore, if FEMA is now involved on the border, then the US is in an extended CRISIS mode as this DISASTER continues to grow daily.

So, please President Biden and team (especially your press secretary), quit playing word games by stretching the truth and thinking we the USA people are buying what you are selling.

I thought you had more respect for us, the people of the USA, than to expect us to be so naive.

This is a very serious and dangerous humanitarian CRISIS at the border for the migrants, which by the way, are not just Latin Americans seeking to find a better life for themselves and their families.

Of course, in any group of this size there is also a measurable percentage who are criminals and will seize any opportunity to cause damage to those around them, either property or bodily.

Also, there is credible evidence that terrorists from other regions of the world are seizing this CRISIS opportunity to cross the US southern border undetected, e.g., recently CBP has reported identifying terrorists from Yemen, a middle eastern country.

And, last but not least, are the citizens of the USA who will be harmed by this CRISIS. Especially, those Americans who live in towns on the US side of the southern border in states such as Texas, Arizona, and California. But, don’t think the harm stops at the border states. It does not.

All the modern day US Presidents I have heard quoted about the priority of the President’s responsibilities say the primary responsibility of the President of the USA is to provide safety and security for this sovereign country and its citizens/residents.

Unfortunately, the biggest winners in this CRISIS situation are the Mexican cartels with their profiteering from human trafficking and illegal drug (fentanyl) sales. The increases in both are enormous for the first few months of CY21.

And, of course, the migrants who survive the dehumanizing treatment on the long trek northward from as far away as El Salvador (~1450 miles), if caught at the border, are released within a few days by CBP “into the wind” as asylum seekers in the USA. They can be considered as winners of sorts, but their struggles are far from being over when they are released into the US.

President Biden; please don’t forget that President Obama, you as his VP, and the entire administration team; refused to identify by name the root cause of the formation and rapid growth of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group and its caliphate landgrab crusade primarily in Iraq and Syria.

This landgrab was enormous in size and the speed with which it occurred. It consisted of 33% of Syria’s sovereign land plus 40% of Iraq’s at its peak.

That team’s mistakes resulted in a four year war against ISIS in the middle east that was birthed, grew, and festered during the entire 2nd term of the Obama Administration.

Finally, with superior US military equipment and focused US expertise advising Iraqi, Kurdish, and Turkish forces, ISIS was soundly and totally defeated by the end of President Trump’s first year in office (2017). All the land that was grabbed by ISIS was returned to Syria and Iraq.

In my opinion (and many others), the defeat of ISIS was largely due to actually giving a name to the problem, Radical Islam. This group was only composed of approximately 100,000 radicals out of 1.6B peaceful members of the Islam religion.

President Biden, you and President Obama let it be known that you were concerned that all Americans would consider all 1.6B Muslims (Islam practitioners) in the world as the enemy if Radical Islam were identified as the root cause of the conflict.

It is disappointing to me that you had no more faith in the American people than that. Did some of that hateful behavior occur when the problem was named Radical Islam?

Unfortunately, yes! But, no more than the relatively small “normal curve” percentage of the human race that generally tends toward hate as its moral compass.

Just giving a name to a problem seems like an oversimplification, but until one actually “names” a problem and gives clarity to the scope of the problem, there is very little chance to succeed in rallying the mindshare and dedication of people and the financial resources to defeat the problem.

President Biden, you are now our President, so please don’t repeat this pattern from the Obama 2nd term of NOT properly identifying problems you face as President with (1) the obvious name, e.g., CRISIS, and (2) the root cause, e.g., your “unintended” signal that the US border is open which was sent to Central Americans when you within a few days reversed ALL of the previous administration’s immigration policies with your own executive orders.

I understand you didn’t like President Trump’s immigration policies and you wanted to change them all, but in my opinion, you should have taken a more measured approach.

For example, getting prepared for the automatic increase in asylum seekers, mostly illegal crossings, by setting up personnel, processes and facilities to handle such an increase in border crossings for the different people groupings before “ripping the band aid off with one stroke.”

Actually, President Trump’s policies had calmed the illegal border crossings and had the cooperation and support of the Central American government officials. These policies had made our US southern border more secure against human and illegal drugs trafficking by the criminal cartels and penetration by embedded foreign terrorists.

Based on your statements in the 2020 Presidential campaign, you felt the Trump policies were immoral.

Except for the separation of children from their parents at the border; which by the way was corrected by Trump almost immediately after the initial instatement of the order and unfortunate lingering effects; I disagree with your assessment. Even with the act of separating children from the family, which is more moral — separating children from their parents and placing them in humane care centers or placing the children in jail with their parents? That’s another conversation for another day.

And please, please, please, do not blame President Trump for this current immigration CRISIS.

Uh, oh. Too late. I just saw that your administration and the Congressional leaders have already blamed Trump.

Don’t expect the thinking people of the US, which I believe to be a very large majority of the US population, to buy it.

You own this!!!

Please be smart in your decision making, and do not let the progressive segment of the Democrat party push you around.

I know in the past when you were in the US Senate and even in your last Presidential campaign, you espoused centrist policy positions. You now give lip service to unification across the ideological divide in the USA, but your actions do not back up your words.

It would be great for the country if you follow your own heart rather than give in to the progressive policies of the extreme left caucus. President Clinton comes to mind as a perfect role model for you as President (sans his character flaws that are well chronicled in US history). Personally, I don’t think President Obama is a good role model for you.

I and other center conservatives can support increasing the number of legal immigrants coming to America yearly. That number has been 1,000,000 per year on average for a while now. It needs to be revisited. I believe a compromise can be reached to increase that number by 500,000 – 1,000,000 per year.

Immigration policy negotiations is a perfect opportunity for you to start US unification by reaching across the political isle.

I can even support providing legal status and a pathway to citizenship for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), also known as The Dreamers. These folks (approximated 11,000,000; but who really knows), now adults, were minor children when they were brought to this country via their illegal immigrant parents.

They had no input into the decision making process of their parents to break the US immigration laws to initially get into this country. So, I don’t think they should be held accountable, and there should be a plan for them to stay in the US after all these years. For most of them, this literally is the only country they know.

I cannot support illegal immigration encouraged by a border control plan that exacerbates the border CRISIS we have today.

As best I can tell, this CRISIS is caused primarily by you announcing to Central Americans that they will be able to enter the USA if they make it over the US border, legally or illegally.

Oh, you didn’t do this in those exact words, but the “message” you projected to the economically poor people in the Central American countries was just that.

You have since told them in exact words to not come YET, since the Covid pandemic and our US Immigration System is just not ready to allow this to happen. These words have obviously fallen on deaf ears, since the 30,000 unaccompanied minors processed by CBP in February 2021 is 5x that of January 2021. Also, this number in February 2021 is as high as the entire year of 2020.

All those, unaccompanied minors or adults, who are legally allowed or who illegally step on US soil only have to declare they are seeking political asylum and they will be granted an asylum hearing before a US Immigration Judge. Since the court system is clogged with an exorbitant backlog of cases, it will be years before such court dates are available. Until such time, these “asylum seekers” will be released into the USA, all for a promise from the migrant that s/he will be present in a US Immigration Court on a predetermined date/time.

History has shown the greatest majority of these migrants who entered illegally will be no shows on the court date. They are truly “in the wind,” rarely to ever be found again by the US CBP or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

This is a terrible plan.

Therefore, we are pulling for you to do the right things and reverse this CRISIS for our country and its people. The migration data shows that this current CRISIS started on January 20, 2021, your Presidential Inauguration date.

Do the math!

There are US immigration solutions that have been shown by the previous US Presidential administration to work and are humane and sensible for a sovereign law and order country.

If you don’t like those solutions (I personally think they were fine, but there is always room for improvement), then go to work with both political parties of the US Congress and come up with what you consider to be better solutions.

President Biden, just keep in mind that immigration is a very complex problem with deep divides in ideologies, morality foundations, and social philosophies.

However, I do think there is common ground that is sensible and compromise is possible across these divides if you really give your best effort.

Godspeed.