Border officials are already warning that Biden’s executive orders on immigration will have a costly effect on Americans. Arizona sheriff Mark Dannels blasted the president’s rushed immigration orders and called them “political theater.” During his first week in office President Biden has signed over 17 executive orders, many of which reverse Trump-era policies. One of these orders included a halt to all southern border wall construction.

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Fox News reports:

Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels also told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that the “political theater that’s being played out is scary to all of us on the southwest border, sheriffs, police departments and our federal partners and every American should be standing up on this.”

Dannels pointed to statistics from 2019, noting that more than 1,000 gang members representing more than a dozen countries breached the southwest border that year. He added that thousands of children were being exploited by the cartels as a fraud and there were hundreds of assaults on federal agents.

“It goes back to show you how vulnerable our southwest border is to include every American in this country if we don’t have a secure border,” Dannels said.

The week before Biden was sworn-in as president, two groups of more than 3,000 Honduran migrants each pushed their way into Guatemala without registering as part of a larger caravan headed to the United States, the Associated Press reported. A third group entered Guatemala on Saturday. The migrants were hoping to reach Mexico, which is north of Guatemala, and eventually make their way to the United States border.

The Trump administration proudly boasted that over 450 miles of the southern border wall had been constructed and border officials agreed that it had a positive impact on deterring illegal crossings.