Advisers for Joe Biden warned the former president in 2020 that his immigration plans could lead to “chaos” at the U.S. border, would overwhelm the system and might hand Donald Trump a second term – but he ignored them, according to a report in Sunday’s New York Times.

The warnings came in staff meetings as well as a newly discovered memo, sent when Biden was campaigning against President Donald Trump, the Times reported.

“A potential surge could create chaos and a humanitarian crisis, overwhelm processing capacities, and imperil the agenda of the new administration,” the advisers wrote, according to a copy of the August, 2020 memo viewed by the Times.

But Biden and his closest confidants ignored the warning. According to the Times :

Former Biden administration officials told T

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