The No. 1 issue in America today is the crisis at the border with some 10 million illegal immigrants crossing into the nation since President Joe Biden reversed President Donald Trump’s border security policies on day one.

In a speech that ran 67 minutes, a little short by modern standards and six minutes shorter than his speech last year, Biden touched on border security for all of five-and-a-half minutes some 40 minutes into the program.

We got a strong hint that Biden would underplay the border crisis he engineered in the White House’s posting of three key excerpts on its site in the hours before the speech. The summary was marqueed by abortion, followed by falsely claiming credit for COVID-19 recovery (never mentioning the lust with which Democrats and their teachers’ union allies promoted the job-killing and soul-crushing lockdowns), and ending with Trump’s a DANGER TO DEMOCRACY(!!!) while ol’ Joe is the epitome of “freedom and democracy.” The White House even put up a helpful online tool for the self-delusional cadres to share their seal claps to the speech in real time with preloaded enthusiastic emojis.

There was not a word about America’s top issue in the preview.

But you would think that the architect of this planned chaos, this deliberate border breakdown, might want to assure the American people that he understands our concerns. That he has a plan to check the criminals and suspected terrorists crossing our border; to prevent illegal aliens with no IDs but notice to appear paperwork boarding our commercial jets for 2 a.m. flights to the interior; and that 10 million........

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