Increased terrorism threats in the last year and the greatest number of illegal border crossers identified on the terrorist watch list have pushed President Joe Biden to extend national emergency orders by executive order. The irony is its policies have exacerbated all threats.

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the greatest number of illegal border crossers on the terrorist watch list have come into the country in U.S. history. Recent arrests “raise serious concerns about the ongoing threat that ISIS and its fanatical supporters pose to U.S. national security, as well as the shortfall in the Biden-Harris administration’s screening and vetting capabilities,” U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security chairman Representative Mark Green (R-TN) said. “The Committee also remains concerned about the threat of a ‘lone wolf’ actor or multiple actors attempting to commit a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.”

In February, Biden extended a national emergency order related to Afghanistan after first issuing it on Feb. 11, 2022. It relates to “the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by” turmoil in Afghanistan after Biden relinquished control to the Taliban six months earlier.

The Center Square notes the hypocrisy:

Despite the national emergency, the Biden-Harris administration released 77,000 Afghans into the U.S. through “Operation Allies Welcome” program. The majority weren’t properly vetted, according to an Inspector General report. One of them was recently arrested for plotting an Election Day terrorist attack on American soil.

In September, Biden extended an executive order, “Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Persons who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism,” for another year. It’s been extended since Sept. 23, 2001, when it was issued by former president George W. Bush.

The order declares a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. It cites “the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats of terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, … and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks against United States nationals or the United States.”

Biden also extended another executive order issued by former President Donald Trump on Sept. 9, 2019, “to strengthen and consolidate sanctions to combat the continuing threat posed by international terrorism and to take additional steps to deal with the national emergency.”

After a U.S. House report highlighted over 50 Islamic terrorist-related cases in 29 states in the last two years and ongoing warnings about potential Islamic terrorist attacks, Biden extended another national emergency related to Syria.

Trump issued the order on Oct. 14, 2019, which Biden extended “to continue in effect beyond October 14, 2024,” the order states.

On October 11, Biden extended additional national emergency orders. One includes Colombia-based narcotics trafficking, which former President Bill Clinton first issued the order on Oct. 21, 1995, in the middle of a decades-long bipartisan “war on drugs.”

“The circumstances that led to the declaration of a national emergency on October 21, 1995, have not been resolved,” Biden’s order states.

“The actions of significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States and to cause an extreme level of violence, corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad.”

Biden also extended a national emergency order related to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, first issued by former President George W. Bush on Oct. 27, 2006. Former President Barack Obama extended and amended it on July 8, 2014; Biden extended it through Oct. 27, 2025.

“The situation in or in relation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has been marked by widespread violence and atrocities that continue to threaten regional stability, continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States,” the order states.