09/05/2026
ICE did not invent the caseload. The prior administration dismantled the deterrents, expanded parole, and turned the border into a processing line. Record encounters and got-aways were not weather. They were policy. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris owned that policy for four years.
Agents who now have to find, arrest, and remove people who were waved through are cleaning up someone else’s decision. Anger aimed at the officers is a gift to the politicians who created the inventory. The people who ended Remain in Mexico, slowed interior enforcement, and sold catch-and-release as compassion are the ones who filled the cities and the dockets.
Unvetted mass entry is a security failure and a fiscal one. Citizens paid for the hotels, the schools, the ERs, and the crime that followed. The remedy is the opposite stack: a closed line, interior removals, and an end to the programs that turned illegal presence into a protected status. Blame the architects. Back the people doing the removals. That is the only division that matches the record.