Get your head out of your butt and face reality:
(CNN)President Joe Biden is not the first US president to face a growing number of migrants at the US-Mexico border -- and he won't be the last. Fluctuations in migration flows are common, regardless of which party is in power, as was evident in 2019 during the border crisis under then-President Donald Trump.
It's difficult to compare today's situation with those of recent years because of the drastically different circumstances, in part relating to the pandemic. There are several factors at play -- including deteriorating conditions in Latin America, pent-up demand to enter the US and a perceived relaxation of enforcement under Biden -- that are driving migrants to the border at what appears to be an accelerated pace.
All of that could set 2021 on track to exceed 2019 in the number of people apprehended at the border. Just over 100,000 people were encountered last month, 24,000 more than in February 2019.
And the number of unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border in March is on pace to surpass May 2019, the highest month that year in arrests of minors, according to preliminary data reviewed by CNN.
If there is no border problem, why does VPOTUS Harris feel the need to blame it on someone else?
NEWS
VP Harris appears to blame Trump administration for border crisis
By Emily Jacobs
March 23, 2021 | 11:16am | Updated
Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to place blame on the Trump administration over the crisis at the southern border, after laughing off a question on whether she intended to visit the region.
Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force Two en route from Jacksonville, Fla., to Washington, DC, on Monday afternoon, Harris made the remarks after being asked what the administration could do in the short term to ensure that migrant children were treated humanely.
“I mean, first of all, we were left with a very challenging situation,” the vice president began.