Biden’s Policies Fueling Illegal Immigration Crisis, Border Patrol Chief Says in Deposition

Then-Border Patrol Deputy Chief Raul Ortiz sits in the first lady’s box in the House chamber as a special guest at then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address on Feb. 4, 2020. Ortiz in 2021 became the bureau’s chief, and testified in late July that in his 31 years’ experience, he has not seen the border in such crisis as it is now. Mario Tama/Getty Images

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The border surge of the past 18 months is a crisis of the Biden administration’s own making.