WASHINGTON — President Biden proclaimed January as Human Trafficking Prevention Month on Friday — outraging critics who say he’s to blame for record-breaking levels of people-smuggling along the US-Mexico border, where monthly
illegal crossings hit an all-time high this month.
Biden’s
statement decreeing the annual recognition was issued by the White House press office while he
vacations in St. Croix and calls for “safe, orderly, and humane migration” despite chaotic scenes at the southern border — words notably absent from
last year’s similar edict.
“It’s just disgusting that he wants to declare human trafficking awareness month,” Tom Homan, former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told The Post.
“If anybody needs to be aware of human trafficking, it’s him. He’s enriched the human traffickers because of his lack of enforcing the border,” Homan said. “They’re making record amounts of money moving record amounts of people because of his intentional un-securing of the border.”
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President Biden is vacationing at a donor’s home in St. Croix as illegal crossings along the US-Mexico border set new records. REUTERS
Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, said: “President Biden’s open border policies have undeniably unleashed a persistent tidal wave of illegal immigration pouring across our borders, resulting in the United States being complicit in the world’s largest human smuggling and trafficking operation in modern history.”