If you listened to President Biden’s State of the Union speech on Thursday night, you were treated to a stack of lies and half-truths that was higher than the Washington Monument. They were shouted by an angry old man determined to prove he was still sentient.

Principal among the lies were Biden’s shouts about how Republicans — and, specifically, Donald Trump — are the primary obstacles between him and the border security he says he wants. Biden and Co. will do anything to prevent border security, but we’ll get back to that in a minute.

Biden’s lies were interrupted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green who shouted that Biden should say the name of Laken Riley, the University of Georgia student who was allegedly murdered by illegal alien Jose Ibarra.

Biden responded by saying, “Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal. That’s right. But how many thousands of people are being killed by legals?”

Seriously? To Biden that would justify or diminish the murder of that young girl. Biden’s mind — however little of it is functioning — substituted itself for judge and jury to establish Ibarra’s guilt. (READ MORE from Jed Babbin: The Coming Ramadan War)

What bothered Biden’s handlers about that? Biden later corrected himself, saying that he was wrong to say that Ibarra was an “illegal.”

Is there anything Biden won’t say or do to keep our borders open? Clearly not.

If you look at the statistics published by the Border Police and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), you see more than enough to condemn — and justify the urgent reversal of — Biden’s border policy.

The odd thing about those stats is that they report so few murders. Are the agencies hiding something or are all their numbers suspect? I suspect the latter.

Since Biden became president, according to other statistics from the same sources, at least seven and a half million people came across our southern border. That doesn’t count the one and a half million more, the “gotaways,” who evaded the Border Patrol and entered the U.S. virtually undetected.

Very few of those millions are arrested because they had already been convicted of criminal acts either here or abroad. Last year, more than fifteen thousand were arrested — and only perhaps deported — and almost six thousand have been arrested so far this year. Many of those arrested had already been deported repeatedly but Biden’s open border keeps letting them in.

Which brings to mind the fact that there is virtually no screening done on the illegals entering America. If there were, those with criminal records would be kept out. Or would they?

As this column has reported several times, hundreds of people — mostly men of military age — are coming in from China, the Middle East, Russia and other nations. They are “arrested” by the Border Police and released pending hearings on their — mostly false — applications for asylum. Remember, please, that FBI Director Christopher Wray told a Senate hearing last December that he had never seen a time during his decades-long career when so many threats against the U.S. were all as elevated as they are now. He told senators that he sees “blinking lights everywhere.”

Terrorists, saboteurs, and criminals of all sorts are pouring over our border and Biden is doing nothing to stop them.

We’ve already seen too many incidents of violence committed by illegal aliens. In February, men belonging to the Venezuelan hyper-violent Tren de Aragua criminal organization, were arrested for beating New York City policemen. The Venezuelan strongman, Nicholas Maduro, is emulating the late unlamented Fidel Castro’s 1980 “Mariel boatlift” in emptying his jails and sending the criminals to America. And Maduro is refusing to take any back, so we can’t deport them.

We could send them back to Mexico, from where they entered the U.S., but Biden won’t. Mexican President Lopez Obrador won’t allow it and it may be contrary to unwise international agreements we have signed. (LISTEN: The Spectacle Ep. 68: Border Crisis Reveals Rot in the GOP Yet Again)

Remember when, in his 2016 campaign, former president Trump said that countries weren’t sending their best people here? ICE announced in February that they had arrested only 171 people who were accused or convicted of murder, rape, and assaults against children.

I’m sure many are coming here because their futures are bleak where they come from. Many are decent people, but we apparently don’t have the ability to reject even those who have been deported before.

Biden has pulled every trick in the book to prevent further construction of a border wall. Last week, a federal judge ruled that diversion — “reprogramming” — of such funds for things such as “environmental remediation” is illegal because congress had specified their use. Biden will never build the wall Trump proposed to protect our border.

Biden has reversed essentially all of the border control orders that Trump had signed, and signed dozens of executive orders to open the borders in their place. If he really wanted to secure the border, he would put those policies back in place.

The worst Biden reversals of Trump actions came early in his administration.

For example, on January 20, 2021 — the day he was inaugurated — Biden revoked Trump’s Executive Order 13768. Biden’s order reversed Trump’s policy, which, according to the Center for Migration Studies had “called for the prompt removal of all undocumented immigrants living in the United States and withdrew federal funding from so-called sanctuary states. Biden’s executive order directs relevant federal agencies to issue new guidance about immigration enforcement priorities.”

On that same date, Biden signed another order which lifted restrictions on immigrant visas (which Trump had put in place) for nationals of Burma, Eritrea, Iran, Venezuela, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, and Yemen.

Biden wants you to believe that the Republicans are blocking immigration reform. They are but only because the bill Biden calls “bipartisan” is an intolerable scam that wouldn’t improve border security one little bit.

As I have written before it would, for example, institutionalize the flow of at least five thousand illegals into our country every day. That’s almost two million each year. Biden’s border bill is a sham that would merely enable the “processing” of more illegal aliens and their release into the country. (READ MORE: Another Bad Border Deal)

The crime wave that has resulted from the influx of illegal aliens is nationwide. Some “sanctuary cities” are overwhelmed. As are other towns and cities. Biden, in 2023, flew at least 320,000 illegals to various parts of the country at taxpayer expense. New York state is now deploying national guardsmen on New York City subways to quell the violence that has resulted from the combination of prosecutors who won’t prosecute and illegals coming into the city.

Remember the statement Ronald Reagan made in a debate that sank Jimmy Carter? He told the American people to ask themselves if they were better off today — after almost four years of Jimmy — than they were before. Today, if you’re better off now than you were four years ago, you must be an illegal alien.

Biden’s open border policy is a significant danger to our national security. It has — along with the Soros prosecutors who won’t do their jobs — unleashed a crime wave that affects almost all of us.

At this point all we can do is vote and hope that Trump wins the election and reverses everything that Biden has done.

Secure the border. Build the wall. And deport quickly all those who can legally be deported.