Rep. Jim Banks: Biden's border crisis – PR stunts to deflect blame won't work. Here's what has to happen

Last Wednesday, the Biden administration held a meeting about the border crisis.

They didn’t discuss policies to lower the skyrocketing rate of illegal immigration, like a responsible administration would. Instead, they brought in outside groups to talk to them about how they should talk to the public about the border crisis.

In other words, they asked political consultants to help them deflect from a humanitarian crisis.

The Democrat Party’s heftily paid communications specialists settled on: "it’s not my fault, he did it!"

That message was all over cable news this Sunday. On Fox, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed that solving the border crisis, "takes times because the entire system was dismantled." He told ABC there was not "the ordinary, safe and just transition from one administration to another." 

And on CNN’s State of the Union, the secretary claimed that the "entire system" of immigration "was torn down during the Trump administration, and that is why the challenge is more acute than it ever has been before."

There was no crisis on our border under the Trump administration. But, weeks after he left office, illegal immigration surged, and voters are supposed to believe that’s Trump’s fault?