The nation’s sheriffs on Friday expressed anger that President Joe Biden did not recognize law enforcement in his State of the Union address, blasting the White House for turning a calm border into a calamity.

While he gave his speech just two weeks after visiting the Texas border, where he met with agents, Biden failed to acknowledge their efforts to keep the nation safe despite broadening violence.

The National Sheriffs’ Association, expressing frustration both at being ignored by Biden and by Biden’s dismantling of the Trump-era border protections officers played a critical part in enforcing, called on the president to take action today to stop the flow of illegal immigrants flooding in.

In a statement to Secrets, NSA President Greg Champagne, the sheriff of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, said, “Last night President Biden failed to recognize the men and women in law enforcement who protect our communities and their need for more resources to fight crime. We need more deputies, not fewer. We need a greater commitment to the rule of law.”

About the border, he blasted Biden’s executive orders canceling former President Donald Trump’s successful actions.

“These actions, in addition to other failures to act, have turned a secured border into a disaster in just over three years making all Americans less safe and allowing the Mexican cartels free rein,” Champagne said.

The sheriff cited efforts by past presidents to take action on their own and urged Biden to stop saying he has done all he can and take executive actions, as Trump and former Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan did, to secure the border.

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What’s more, he dismissed the legislation Biden has been pushing that would make few major changes to immigration law. “The president repeated the recent refrain that he cannot do anything to secure the border until Congress acts on the current proposed legislation. However, this legislation would only enshrine into law that we could continue to admit 5,000 migrants per day, and an unlimited number of minors,” Champagne said in the statement.

“The National Sheriffs’ Association urges President Biden to stop playing election year politics with our safety and restrict immigration under the authority that he already has been granted by Congress years ago,” he added.