The Biden border crisis is unquestionably deliberate – from the president’s first day in office he started shredding former President Trump’s policies and laying out the welcome mat for illegal immigrants. Almost four million have crossed the southern border during his tenure, and at least 1.5 million have evaded authorities and are now residing in the U.S. illegally.

The question is: why? Why would a president deliberately fail to uphold his vows and undermine our laws? 

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared on “Hannity” Thursday and told fill-in host Kellyanne Conway that it’s all part of the plan dating back to the Obama years:

I think you can't understand Joe Biden without looking at his eight years as Barack Obama's vice president. Obama is arguably the most radical person ever to be president, protected by the news media. 

When you look at his underlying values and his speeches and his policies and the people he brought in, he is extraordinarily radical in that process. Biden, over an eight-year period, became sort of a mini Barack, if you will. … 

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In fact, Gingrich added, Biden's policies are working perfectly. Just not for the American people:

We don't have a ‘problem’ on the border. We have a Biden immigration policy, which is working perfectly, if you're a hard-left person, which is destroying American identity, it's crippling the rule of law. 

It is flooding the country with people who haven't been trained into the culture, don't necessarily understand how to function in our society and create all sorts of problems. 

🚨 BREAKING: 242,418 illegal immigrants were encountered at the southern border in November — the highest number EVER recorded for the month.

And it has only gotten worse in December. pic.twitter.com/F4zNRjyOVg

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 22, 2023

What's the aim of this willful neglect? Gingrich posits that it's in essence a ploy to change America as we know it and turn it into a progressive fantasyland:

And I think we don't realize yet this is a deliberate policy by people who want to undermine America, change it profoundly, and eliminate all of those crazy ideas like the Constitution, the rule of law, the work ethic, meritocracy, actually being able to know and do something.

They've gotten away with it so far -- except for a pause during the Trump years -- but Gingrich thinks the Democrats may finally pay the price at the ballot box next November.

If you're on the hard left, those are all terrible ideas, and so what you have with Biden is a commitment. Now, I think politically, probably it's going to be a disaster, but they don't see it that way. They won the presidency in 2020. They survived 2022. They had an okay 2023. I think they think that they have a reasonable chance of survival and they know that if they were to go to the policies you and I believe in, that their entire left would erupt and there'd be a civil war in the Democratic Party. 

So Biden goes along with the most active, aggressive and militant parts of his coalition. And what we have is what you showed tonight on television [scenes of throngs of illegals at the border]. 

If you'd told me not so long ago that a U.S. president would deliberately undermine our security and actively flout our laws, I would have thought you were nutters and that it was a crazy conspiracy theory. And, yet, that's exactly what we've been seeing with first Obama and now his surrogate Biden. 

Gingrich's explanation as to why is as good as any you'll see.