As the nation faces record-breaking numbers of illegal immigrants at the southern border, with nearly 1.7 million reported U.S. Border Patrol encounters this fiscal year, some critics claim the crisis has been manufactured. Tom Homan, who served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during President Donald Trump’s administration, is one of those critics. “This crisis was created on purpose. This isn’t mismanagement. This isn’t incompetence. This is by design,” Homan told the Epoch Times. President Joe Biden voted for border barriers when he was a senator but is now pushing a clear open-borders agenda, Homan said. “He needed progressive left support to win the race, so he sold out. He said all the magic words to bring more people to the United States illegally. In my opinion, it wasn’t a coincidence,” he said. “They planned open borders, and Joe Biden didn’t hide it. He made promises during the …