From the start of his presidency, Biden’s “angry moods made for uncomfortable meetings” about the border crisis, according to Franklin Foer’s explosive new tome, “The …
during furious meltdowns just two months into his administration, a new book says. From the start of his presidency, Biden’s “angry moods made for uncomfortable meetings” about the border crisis, according to Franklin Foer’s explosive new tome, “The Last Politician.
”” to win the election, the book says. But privately, he “hated to see how his campaign proposals were being translated into policy,” Foer writes.per year, and Biden – despite his campaign claims – was hesitant to change it, the writer says. “Biden hadn’t realized that reforms would go so far,” Foer writes. “When he learned that ICE might stop targeting fentanyl dealers, sex offenders and other felons, he exploded in anger.” President Biden was ready to renege on his 2020 campaign promises to open the US southern border to thousands more migrants.Since taking office, Biden has suffered dismal approval ratings for his handling of the immigration crisis. By March 2021, Customs and Border Patrol agents were seeing double the amount of migrants illegally crossing the border since that January when he took office, according to CBP data. The new presidential administration was already scrambling at the time to deal with the thousands of child migrants piling into overcrowded CBP facilities, “sleeping on gym mats covered by foil sheets, deprived of showers” for weeks on end. But the liberal left, which had rallied around calls to “Abolish ICE,” demanded Biden open US borders further, according to the book.he was most out of step with his evolving party’s leftward trajectory ,” Foer says. “With the surge of children, Biden was no longer sure that he wanted to follow through on other immigration promises.” Donald Trump set a historic cap to allow just 15,000 refugees into the country per year, and Biden – despite his campaign claims – was hesitant to change it.On Feb. 12, his administration told Congress that Biden would not cancel Trump’s cap and instead raise it from 15,000 to 62,500 refugees – a move Foer calls “an important symbolic reversal.” Now, all Biden had to do was approve the funding for it, “but in his cantankerous mood, he doubted whether he should. “They want me to increase the number of people in the country, but that’s kind of crazy,” he told Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to the book., enraging the president so much that “his obstinacy [to raising immigration caps] deterred aides who might have otherwise challenged him, for fear of wasting precious capital on a hopeless fight,” Foer writes. “[Biden] said that voters would never appreciate the difference between refugees fleeing tyranny and economic migrants from Central American. Since he was already getting pulverized on immigration, boosting the cap would just make things worse,” the book says. Deterred by the president’s stubbornness, then-Biden’s chief domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, avoided scheduling any meetings to address the cap.On April 16, 2021, the White House announced that Biden would keep Trump’s refugee cap through the remainder of the fiscal year, which would end on Sept. 30, but “the cries of betrayal were instantaneous” from the left, Foer said. Deterred by the president’s stubbornness, then-Biden’s chief domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, avoided scheduling any meetings to address the cap, but Biden kept “raising the subject himself … usually with an edge of aggression,” the book says. “He moaned, ‘Can you believe that they want me to go back to those high numbers?’ ” Foer writes. “At a moment like that, Susan Rice would shoot a glance across the room, which told aides, ‘Don’t take the bait.’ “
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