The scale of the crisis at the border is simply too large for most of us to comprehend.

Yes, we have seen some videos.

Yes, we hear some statistics.

Yes, we laugh at Democrats who yesterday demanded “sanctuary” for “refugees” and who now are crying that their cities are being “destroyed” by a small number of actual illegal migrants arriving.

But the sheer scale of the problem is simply too large for most of us to comprehend. It’s like the size of the national debt. The difference between $5 trillion, $10 trillion, $20 trillion, and now $30 trillion become meaningless. The numbers are simply too big to grasp, so it defaults to “really big.”

Well, the scale of the disaster at the border–a disaster that was desired, planned for, and created by Joe Biden’s Administration–is “really big” in the way that the national debt is “really big.” By the end of Biden’s term, his administration will have imported–by design–the equivalent population of a mid-sized state. In 4 years.

Already 6-8 million illegal immigrants have violated our borders and spread out around the country. Every single one of them during a declared pandemic emergency that supposedly placed limits on border crossings. Those limits go away tomorrow, and a larger flood is coming. A much larger flood.

Before Title 42 has even been lifted, the border surge has already exceeded the Biden administration’s projections ⬇️

“The more than 11,000 border apprehensions in a single day is a record and surpasses expectations of 10,000 per day predicted by DHS” https://t.co/f93XjvQpwc

— Chad Gilmartin (@ChadGilmartinCA) May 10, 2023

The border is secure, the Biden Administration assures us. Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, insists we have “operational control” of the border, whatever that means.

Well, actually we know exactly what that means: if they have “control” of the border, what is happening there is exactly what they WANT to happen there. That is what control means, right?

Not everybody at DHS is so sanguine. According to NBC News, one official confessed that “we’re already breaking and we haven’t hit the starting line.”

Up until now, the Administration tried to maintain the fiction that they were tracking all those “refugees” they were letting into the country.

Now they aren’t even planning to do that. They are simply going to open the floodgates without even pretending that they will adjudicate the claim that the incoming migrants are actually anything but people skipping to the head of the immigration line.

No fig leaf of political oppression, fear for their lives, or any of the standard claims of refugee status. You want in? Come on in! By the million.

After more than 11,000 migrants were caught crossing the southern border on Tuesday, the Biden administration is now preparing a memo that will direct Customs and Border Protection to begin releasing migrants into the United States without court dates or the ability to track them, according to three sources familiar with the plans.

The Biden administration began releasing migrants without court dates to alleviate overcrowding in March 2021, but had previously enrolled those migrants in a program known as Alternatives to Detention, which required them to check in on a mobile app until they were eventually given a court date. The new policy would release them on “parole” with a notice to report to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office but without enrolling them in the program.

Why even do the “parole” fiction? For the same reason they tried the “app.” The app was fiction as well, simply meant as a fig leaf so they could pretend that they haven’t opened the floodgates to everybody, including terrorists, cartel members, and anybody else who wants entry into the country. They require that fig leaf both because we, shockingly, have immigration laws, and because their entire argument to the American people is that we are saving the lives of people fleeing oppression.

They would dearly love to maintain that fiction and will try by “paroling” the migrants, but the leaf has become dry and crumbly, covering nothing.

The more than 11,000 border apprehensions in a single day is a record and surpasses expectations of 10,000 per day predicted by Department of Homeland Security officials on what could come when Covid restrictions lift late Thursday.

“We’re already breaking and we haven’t hit the starting line,” one DHS official told NBC News, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the person isn’t authorized to talk to the media.

The Biden Administration is no longer maintaining the pretense that any of this is good for actual American citizens. Even fellow Democrats–at least the few in charge of running things instead of posturing–are screaming about how dangerous this is. To their own political futures, at least. They don’t care about the country, but they do worry about their reelection.

Biden doesn’t worry, though, for some reason. He is too focused on dismantling America in every way he can.

It’s not just the Department of Homeland Security that is breaking. It’s every damn thing.

What is instructive about the situation at the border is that there is no way to hide the fact that this is by design, not sheer incompetence. In most areas the exhortation that you “should never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence” provides a small defense for Biden’s team.

Perhaps they aren’t maliciously destroying America; it could just be sheer stupidity.

But no, it’s not. It is malice. The situation at the border PROVES that it is malice. They planned this, designed it, and have been executing their design. They, as Mayorkas has said, have “control” of the border.

This is what they want.

Mayorkas Heads To Border To Fire Starter Pistol When Title 42 Expires https://t.co/KcYXO4CXjV pic.twitter.com/owhyCqxHyj

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 9, 2023