The Texas National Guard has been doing all they can to help stop the massive influx of illegal aliens across the border under Operation Lone Star. That’s the effort by Texas to make up for the failure of Joe Biden to stop the flood. Biden’s team has handcuffed the Border Patrol from doing its job. The numbers coming in are astronomical.

But if it wasn’t clear what the purpose of the Biden team is, the actions of Biden’s Border Patrol on Wednesday made the aims explicit.

The Texas National Guard locked the gate which was on private property in the Del Rio sector to prevent illegal aliens from coming across. The aliens began backing up on the other side of the gate but the Guard would not let them in. Fox’s Bill Melugin captured what happened next when the Border Patrol showed up. The Border Patrol then unlocked the gate and let all the illegal aliens in.

NEW: For the first time, we witnessed the TX National Guard close & lock a gate on private property at a major crossing area in Eagle Pass, denying entry to migrants who just crossed illegally & expected to be let in. Border Patrol then came w/ a key & let them in for processing. pic.twitter.com/S1fZaTJnEi

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) August 17, 2022

This was the moment Border Patrol arrived with the key and let the migrants in. The landowner allows both TX DPS/National Guard and Border Patrol to work here. The gate has always been left open in the past. TX is now closing it, & migrants have to wait for BP to be let in. pic.twitter.com/AR4S9Vn3qH

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) August 17, 2022

The new thing here, as Melugin notes, is Texas locking the gate.

Border Patrol opening gates etc to allow migrants in is not new. They have to process migrants on U.S. soil per federal law. What’s new is TX is now closing the gate & denying entry at this major crossing location. Always open in months past, including this video I shot in May. pic.twitter.com/FfWWvoch6r

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) August 17, 2022

So while Texas is trying to protect the border, the very people who are supposed to be protecting the border are letting illegal aliens in. They’ve been ordered to just let anyone in, even as Texas tries to keep them out. This is open borders, there’s no other way around it — at the behest of the Biden Administration.

According to Townhall’s Julio Rosas:

While members of the Texas National Guard are augmenting Texas state troopers who have been deployed to the southern border under Operation Lone Star, they do not have the final authority to prevent illegal entry as that job falls under Border Patrol’s jurisdiction. That is not to say the Texas National Guard hasn’t made attempts to stop the flow of illegal crossings, but they are only legally authorized to do so much.

The Biden Administration is just letting everyone in and releasing them into the interior.

While some are returned under the still-ongoing Title 42 public health order, the majority of migrants are instead released into the U.S. for their immigration hearings, which can take years. Of the 199,976 encounters in July, only 74,573 resulted in a Title 42 expulsions.

The comparison between the two actions was stark, as Gov. Greg Abbott observed.

Unbelievable.

While Texas secures the border, the federal government is enabling illegal immigration.

Biden’s open border policies caused this crisis.

The federal government must do its job & fix it. https://t.co/4yqR8uQMo8

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 17, 2022

Virtually none of these people would qualify for asylum under our traditional understanding of the term. But under Biden, they’re let in, regardless. Abbott should ship every one of them straight to D.C. to Joe Biden until Biden changes what he is doing here.