July 16, 2024
Dear Friends and Family,
An open border policy like that which exists today results in numerous problems as the excerpts in this segment details.
Will that happen with the Biden immigrants? They appear to being coddled with government benefits (free stuff) at the outset [so maybe they don’t have to work hard – the government will take care of them], they are being taught by example that they can subvert the law as that is what is happening with their illegal status [so maybe they can pick a choose which laws to obey], if they are not white, most are not, they are taught they are a victim of oppression because of white supremacy [so maybe they should adopt a grievance attitude], and they are informed about identity politics [so maybe they should become part of a group of like heritage and culture and not assimilate into the American melting pot]. These points lead me to rate the immigration policy as a “Significant Concern” going forward from here.
Happy Learning,
Harley
Dear Friends and Family,
An open border policy like that which exists today results in numerous problems as the excerpts in this segment details.
- Massive numbers of illegal aliens, most of whom do not possess significant skills.
- Not being vetted, among them are murderers, rapists, and terrorists thus leading to increased crime within our country.
- High taxpayer cost to feed, clothe, house, transport, and provide medical care for a substantial period of time for each alien – estimated to cost $20 billion in the past two years. Then additional continuing taxpayer costs for education, health care, retirement and various welfare programs.
- Increased influx of drugs, in particular fentanyl, leading to overdoses and death.
- Increased sex-trafficking.
Will that happen with the Biden immigrants? They appear to being coddled with government benefits (free stuff) at the outset [so maybe they don’t have to work hard – the government will take care of them], they are being taught by example that they can subvert the law as that is what is happening with their illegal status [so maybe they can pick a choose which laws to obey], if they are not white, most are not, they are taught they are a victim of oppression because of white supremacy [so maybe they should adopt a grievance attitude], and they are informed about identity politics [so maybe they should become part of a group of like heritage and culture and not assimilate into the American melting pot]. These points lead me to rate the immigration policy as a “Significant Concern” going forward from here.
Happy Learning,
Harley
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY – SEGMENT 5
IMMIGRATION AND OUR SOUTHERN BORDER – EXCERPTS
A GOOD SUMMARY: Crossing into the U.S. over its southern border has never seen anything like the numbers we are seeing now. A human tsunami of previously unfathomable size – Border Patrol has had to handle more than 7.6 million border crossings in 36 months – has smashed every record, with each year’s numbers exceeding the previous year’s record in stair-stepping fashion. Of over 7.6 million illegals encountered by Border Patrol since January 2021, the number allowed to stay inside the U.S. is somewhere north of five million. But with the percentage of those allowed to stay now approaching 100 percent, if current trends hold, the total allowed to remain in the U.S. under the Biden administration will reach ten million by next January.
The U.S. has experienced surges of illegal immigration in the past, but these have been brought quickly under control by implementing policies to deter, block, detain, and deport illegal immigrants. Not this time. To put the current numbers in perspective, consider that Jeb Johnson, President Obama’s Director of Homeland Security, told MSNBC that in his time in office – when the number of illegal crossings was relatively low – he considered it bad if apprehensions exceeded 1,000 a day, because anything more than that “overwhelmed the system.” Over the past three years, apprehensions have averaged about 6,940 per day. In 2023 there were three million apprehensions, a daily average of 8,219. Entering 2024, apprehensions were up to 12,000 to 15,000 per day.
The reality is even worse, because these numbers do not include the people who entered the U.S. illegally without being apprehended – sometimes referred to as “gotaways” – a number of Border Patrol estimates but does not make public. That estimate over the past three years is two million, bringing the three-year total of illegal immigrants to ten million – a number equivalent to the population of Greater London or Greater Chicago. But these are just numbers. Who are these people? They are internationally diverse: 45 percent come from 170 countries outside the traditional origin countries of Mexico and Central America. Many are unaccompanied minors: 448,000 to date. More than 330 as of November 2023 are on the FBI’s terrorist watch list. Many are murderers, rapists, kidnappers, and violent criminals. More than a million have been lawfully ordered deported by judges in the U.S. but remain in our country regardless.
It is worth noting some other firsts: Mexico’s crime syndicates and their paramilitary forces have never earned so much money from cross-border smuggling, and it is reported that their proceeds from human smuggling are surpassing those from drug smuggling for the first time. Never before have the Border Patrol’s 19,000 agents been ordered to abandon vast stretches of the border to conduct administrative intake duty. Never have so many immigrants died to take advantage of policies that all but guarantee quick release into the U.S. Never has our government explicitly refused to enforce immigration laws requiring detention and deportation of illegal immigrants on the grounds that those requirements are cruel and inhumane – instead adopting ad hoc policies aimed at providing “safe, orderly, and humane pathways” into the U.S. for illegal border crossers. And never has there been anything like the current conveyor belt policy to distribute millions of illegals throughout the American interior.
This crisis is not the result of incompetence, but of purposeful policies. What is more, America’s establishment media has largely abdicated its duty to report on the crisis, refusing to acknowledge an event that is having a greater impact than almost any other in the world today. One can only assume that the reason for this is partisan bias: after all, the crisis can easily be traced to and identifiable moment in time – Inauguration Day 2021. Prior to that day, the Trump administration had brought the southern border largely under control using four key policies.
Those who seek to come to the U.S. illegally are rational actors. They are more willing to pull up stakes and come when they think the effort and expense will pay off. The typical cost for the dangerous journey is $10,000 per person paid to smugglers. Few will take the gamble when the odds are against them. It’s a different matter when the odds move dramatically in favor of success as they did in January 2021. Toward the end of the Trump administration, Border Patrol used Title 42 to deport nearly 90% of apprehended illegals. The Biden administration immediately reduced that number to 60%. By 2023, Title 42 deportations were down to 35%. And on May 12, 2023, the Biden administration formally ended Title 42.
It is too early to gauge the full impact of the ongoing settlement of millions of illegal foreign nationals in the U.S. We know that the initial financial cost is high -- $400 billion, by one estimate, to feed, house, clothe, and resettle the illegals who have been allowed to stay. Then there is the burden placed on public school districts that have no choice but to take in millions of new children who often speak no English and whose educations are not commensurate with those of their schoolmates. It is probably not coincidental that hospital systems across the nation have fallen deep into the red since the great mass migration crisis began. And large cities across the nation are looking to Washington for help with unfunded and unexpected fiscal burdens reaching into the tens of billions to care for the hundreds of thousands showing up with hand out.
Expense, of course, is only one part of the equation in terms of impact. Public safety, criminal justice, and national security systems face unprecedented new burdens as the personal histories and criminal backgrounds of most of the millions allowed easy entry are unknown and, often, unknowable. Some percentage will commit crimes and – in addition to the often horrendous effects on the victims of their crimes – increase the load on our already over-burdened courts and prisons. One prays not, but some may also commit acts of terrorism. Last but not least, this great influx will increase joblessness and put immense downward pressure on wages for American workers. The problem is not a lack of knowledge but a lack of political will. Too many of our elected leaders have selfish reasons to let the border crisis continue, no matter what their constituents demand. Whether they will be able to continue in their inaction is in the hands of the American people.
Source: Imprimis: An Immigration Crisis Beyond Imagining by Todd Bensman (January 2024).
BORDER DISORDER –SOME DETAILS: Biden, under pressure to appease his left flank, made it clear he’d welcome refugees. He promised to end the president’s “detrimental asylum policies.” He vowed to safeguard “the dignity of migrants and uphold their legal right to seek asylum.” He would “welcome immigrants in our communities.” His campaign website explained that “Trump has waged an unrelenting assault on our values and our history as a nation of immigrants. It’s wrong and it stops when Joe Biden is elected president.” And stop it he did. The new administration was so invested in hating Trump’s stance, it didn’t stop to think about the merit of any particular policy or the broader imperative of border security. Biden on his first day pronounced he was ending the construction of the border wall and revoking Trump’s presidential order on immigration enforcement. He also sent a sweeping immigration bill to Congress, with a proposal to fast-track citizenship for undocumented immigrants. The message to millions of would-be immigrants could not have been clearer. Get here fast, and you might just qualify for quick citizenship.
CODDLING THE CARTELS: A porous border brings with it other problems, including crime. Cartels are growing a lucrative business in Biden’s border policies. The New York Times in July 2022 reported that human smuggling has evolved over a decade from “a scattered network of freelance ‘coyotes’ into a multi-billion-dollar international business controlled by organized crime, including some of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels.” These smugglers are now taking full advantage of Biden’s border chaos.
The cartels are shipping more than humans. Fifteen years ago, hardly anyone in the country had heard of fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid that can easily lead to accidental overdose. The drug is fifty times more powerful than heroin and as much as a hundred times more potent than morphine. It can be taken on its own, though is increasingly being laced into other street drugs. The United States in 2021 experienced a record 107,000 overdoses, and the majority involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl. The Mexican border is now the source of nearly all fentanyl entering the U.S. As China started cracking down on fentanyl production, Mexican criminal networks cornered the market. These operations are exploding in scope, as the cartels employ more people to manufacture the cheap, easy-to-produce drug, and as the Biden border policy offers more opportunities for smuggling.
Source: The Biden Malaise by Kimberley Strassel (2023).
JOE BIDEN’S AMERICA, A SANCTUARY COUNTRY
America’s open southern border is her Achilles’ heel. It is our single most obvious weakness. Leaving the border open, as we do, encourages lawlessness. It sends a message to foreigners that if you violate our rules, you might get prioritized ahead of those who abide by them. Organized crime, that is, the cartels, typically has two products: humans and drugs. It’s morally reprehensible to tolerate either, yet we permit both. The whole process is hideous.
The cheap labor arrives in American towns and competes for low-skilled jobs, driving down the market value of American workers in our lowest class. Border agents are strained. Their families struggle. The desperate foreigners are all pawns in a global game being played by the richest and most privileged people in the world. Citizenship and national sovereignty are diminished. The American taxpayer is left hold the bag, as always. There is nothing good that comes from an open border. Yet we leave it open. We can’t help ourselves. Why?
Democrats don’t see the alien migrants as humans; they see them as votes. Maybe not those who cross today, but their progeny will be voters one day. The Democrats import their next generation; it’s easier and faster than birthing them and raising them. The nation’s “anchor baby” population keeps increasing; it may be at the highest level in U.S. history. The Center for Immigration Studies believes that nearly 400,000 children are born to illegal aliens on U.S. soil every year. The Democrats portray themselves as the ones who care, the ones who are truly empathetic to the plight of migrants. Their unwillingness to secure the border is the inciting incident in this horror movie: the precursor to all the humanitarian strife that follows.
There is definitive evidence that Joe Biden believes walls do work. In fact, he knows they do. In 2022, DHS awarded a Delaware company a $490,000 contract, paid for by the taxpayers, for a special security project of utmost importance to the nation: a security fence for Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, summer house.
Source: Breaking Biden by Alex Marlow (2023).
FALSE PROGRESSIVE COMPASSION: There are many reasons for Progressives to call for open borders. For some, it’s a way of signaling their virtue and showing how enlightened they are. For others, it’s an issue to run on, a way of generating political contributions and motivating voter turnout. For still others, illegal immigration is simply a source of cheap labor. And for many political strategists on the left, illegal immigration is a way of importing future citizens – and future Democratic voters. Democrats like to portray unrestricted illegal immigration as a matter of compassion. But where is the compassion in importing foreign born-underclass to do the work we won’t do – or won’t pay a decent wage to do? That’s not compassion. That’s exploitation – and it’s a racist policy. The crisis at the border is Joe Biden’s crisis, 100 percent. He owns it – lock, stock and unfinished wall.
Source: Radical Nation by Sean Spicer (2021)
KAMALA HARRIS: Things went badly for Harris from the get go. By August 2021, the number of border crossers had hit a twenty-year high. It was at this point that Harris finally released her strategy to address the crisis. She blamed the pandemic and “extreme weather conditions” for increased immigration. She proposed a vague five-pillar program that would ostensibly instill a “safe, orderly, and humane immigration system,” without outlining specific policy actions or when they would be implemented. None of the effective Trump policies was put back into place. A border wall was not a priority. She drew bipartisan criticism for not visiting the border to see the problems firsthand as they developed. This too should not have been a surprise, given that Harris’s public proclamations indicate that she doesn’t necessarily believe there is a border at all. Kamala Harris has also supported publicly funded, free health care for illegal aliens. “Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being access to public safety, public education, or public health. Period.”
Dangling free cutting edge health care for all who enter is the ultimate magnet for would be migrants hoping for a better life for their families -- a massive incentive to try to enter the country illegally. Murders, sexual assaults, and other crimes committed by illegal aliens do not make for pleasant reading, yet they have become a fixture on the pages of Breitbart.com since the massive influx of illegal immigration. Lawlessness spreads like a contagion: it is becoming our culture.
Source: Breaking Biden by Alex Marlow (2023)
Some of Harris’s wounds were self-inflicted. Part of the problem was her seeming inability to find her voice. As confident and effective as she’d been as a senator, skillfully interrogating witnesses in televised hearings, Harris seemed awkward and uncertain as vice president. She laughed inappropriately and chopped the air with her hands, which made her seem condescending. One unforced error occurred during the vice president’s two-day visit to Guatemala and Mexico in June 2021. It didn’t help that Guatemala’s president, Alejandro Giammattei, publicly disagree with Harris over the best approach to the migration crisis. “We are not on the same side of the coin. It is obvious,” he told CBS News. Things went from bad to worse when Harris sat for an interview with Lester Holt, the anchor of NBC Nightly News. Holt asked her: “Do you have any plans to visit the border.” “At some point,” Harris replied. “This whole thing about the border, we’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.” Holt said, “You haven’t been to the border.” She replied, “And I haven’t been to Europe. I don’t understand the point that you’re making.”
Holt’s point was that the border crisis was out of control, record numbers of immigrants were arriving, and that Harris, whether she liked it or not, would be held responsible. Border Patrol agents were no longer deliberately wrenching children from their parents’ arms, as they’d done under Trump, but refugees were languishing in overcrowded warehouses in deplorable conditions. The reality was that the border problems couldn’t be solved without overhauling the immigration system and there was no political will for that in Congress. But Harris’s unwillingness to make going to the border a priority had become a symbol of Biden’s failure to stem illegal immigration. The vice president had wobbled in her first foray overseas.
Source: The Fight of His Life by Chris Whipple (2023).
FENTANYL: A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION: When the border is open, drugs come in, and there is one drug in particular that is wreaking havoc across our nation. Fentanyl, a highly powerful synthetic opioid primarily produced in China and Mexico, has been flowing over the southern U.S. border at a torrid pace. Just two milligrams worth, which is less than a pinch of table salt, is considered a lethal dose. Overdose deaths skyrocketed in American between 2019 and 2021.
Republican congressmen have pushed legislation to classify fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction,” which would put pressure on China and Mexico to intervene to stop the flow into America. I dig it, but Democrats won’t support this. If they do, it is a tacit admission that the border needs to be secured, which they do not want under any circumstances. Butler Country, Pennsylvania, terminated their “sanctuary” designation over the influx of drugs being brought into the area. A “sanctuary city” is one that protects illegal aliens from deportation or prosecutions that they ought to face for violating federal immigration law.
Source: Breaking Biden by Alex Marlow (2023)
U.S. PAYS RECORD $20 BILLION TO WELCOME ILLEGAL ALIENS: In the past two fiscal years, the Biden administration has spent an astonishing $20 billion rolling out the welcome mat to accommodate, transport, and provide migrants with a multitude of services upon their arrival to the United States. Services provided to illegal immigrants include transitional and medical care, refugee support, programs for survivors of torture, emergency supplemental assistance and millions of dollars for minors, which are classified as unaccompanied alien children (UAC). Underaged migrants also receive costly extended services such as housing, schooling, recreational activities, legal help, and even long-term foster care for those who cannot be placed with family.
The Biden administration’s disastrous open border policies will only increase the cost of providing all these rewards to illegal aliens. There seems to be no end in sight, or meaningful plan from the Biden administration to stop or slow the number of people coming over the border. Another taxpayer-funded program for migrants offers intensive case management to help “extremely vulnerable individuals” overcome barriers. Under the plan, they receive emergency housing support, medical screening, work authorization applications, school enrollment, cultural orientation, legal assistance, mental health services and other costly benefits. Incredibly, the federal agency wants more money from Congress to expand services to a broader range of applicants despite record spending. This includes providing the same Medicaid and foster care services that American children get for illegal immigrant minors, legal assistance to Ukrainian and Afghan children to ensure permanent residency, cash assistance to full-time college or technical school students for refugees and removing the requirement that refugees obtain economic self-sufficiency as quickly as possible.
Source: Verdict by Judicial Watch Volume 30 (April 2024)
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
IMMIGRATION AND OUR SOUTHERN BORDER – EXCERPTS
A GOOD SUMMARY: Crossing into the U.S. over its southern border has never seen anything like the numbers we are seeing now. A human tsunami of previously unfathomable size – Border Patrol has had to handle more than 7.6 million border crossings in 36 months – has smashed every record, with each year’s numbers exceeding the previous year’s record in stair-stepping fashion. Of over 7.6 million illegals encountered by Border Patrol since January 2021, the number allowed to stay inside the U.S. is somewhere north of five million. But with the percentage of those allowed to stay now approaching 100 percent, if current trends hold, the total allowed to remain in the U.S. under the Biden administration will reach ten million by next January.
The U.S. has experienced surges of illegal immigration in the past, but these have been brought quickly under control by implementing policies to deter, block, detain, and deport illegal immigrants. Not this time. To put the current numbers in perspective, consider that Jeb Johnson, President Obama’s Director of Homeland Security, told MSNBC that in his time in office – when the number of illegal crossings was relatively low – he considered it bad if apprehensions exceeded 1,000 a day, because anything more than that “overwhelmed the system.” Over the past three years, apprehensions have averaged about 6,940 per day. In 2023 there were three million apprehensions, a daily average of 8,219. Entering 2024, apprehensions were up to 12,000 to 15,000 per day.
The reality is even worse, because these numbers do not include the people who entered the U.S. illegally without being apprehended – sometimes referred to as “gotaways” – a number of Border Patrol estimates but does not make public. That estimate over the past three years is two million, bringing the three-year total of illegal immigrants to ten million – a number equivalent to the population of Greater London or Greater Chicago. But these are just numbers. Who are these people? They are internationally diverse: 45 percent come from 170 countries outside the traditional origin countries of Mexico and Central America. Many are unaccompanied minors: 448,000 to date. More than 330 as of November 2023 are on the FBI’s terrorist watch list. Many are murderers, rapists, kidnappers, and violent criminals. More than a million have been lawfully ordered deported by judges in the U.S. but remain in our country regardless.
It is worth noting some other firsts: Mexico’s crime syndicates and their paramilitary forces have never earned so much money from cross-border smuggling, and it is reported that their proceeds from human smuggling are surpassing those from drug smuggling for the first time. Never before have the Border Patrol’s 19,000 agents been ordered to abandon vast stretches of the border to conduct administrative intake duty. Never have so many immigrants died to take advantage of policies that all but guarantee quick release into the U.S. Never has our government explicitly refused to enforce immigration laws requiring detention and deportation of illegal immigrants on the grounds that those requirements are cruel and inhumane – instead adopting ad hoc policies aimed at providing “safe, orderly, and humane pathways” into the U.S. for illegal border crossers. And never has there been anything like the current conveyor belt policy to distribute millions of illegals throughout the American interior.
This crisis is not the result of incompetence, but of purposeful policies. What is more, America’s establishment media has largely abdicated its duty to report on the crisis, refusing to acknowledge an event that is having a greater impact than almost any other in the world today. One can only assume that the reason for this is partisan bias: after all, the crisis can easily be traced to and identifiable moment in time – Inauguration Day 2021. Prior to that day, the Trump administration had brought the southern border largely under control using four key policies.
- Diplomatic Big Sticks: The U.S. gained Mexico’s cooperation by threatening ruinous trade tariffs of up to 28% on Mexican goods. We gained the cooperation of Central American nations by threatening to freeze U.S. foreign aid. The cooperation of these countries consisted of two things: accepting deported illegals from the U.S. and using their military and police to block incoming immigrants at their own borders.
- Remain in Mexico: Border Patrol was required to return apprehended immigrants immediately to Mexico, where they had to wait out the long duration of asylum processing, rather than releasing them to disappear inside the U.S.
- Safe Third Country: Immigrants who had passed through designated “safe third countries” (including Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico) on their way to the U.S. without applying for asylum in one of those countries were automatically deported with no chance to claim asylum in the U.S.
- Title 42: This pandemic control health order required rapid deportations to Mexico, without the option to claim asylum, of all immigrants caught illegally crossing the U.S. border.
Those who seek to come to the U.S. illegally are rational actors. They are more willing to pull up stakes and come when they think the effort and expense will pay off. The typical cost for the dangerous journey is $10,000 per person paid to smugglers. Few will take the gamble when the odds are against them. It’s a different matter when the odds move dramatically in favor of success as they did in January 2021. Toward the end of the Trump administration, Border Patrol used Title 42 to deport nearly 90% of apprehended illegals. The Biden administration immediately reduced that number to 60%. By 2023, Title 42 deportations were down to 35%. And on May 12, 2023, the Biden administration formally ended Title 42.
It is too early to gauge the full impact of the ongoing settlement of millions of illegal foreign nationals in the U.S. We know that the initial financial cost is high -- $400 billion, by one estimate, to feed, house, clothe, and resettle the illegals who have been allowed to stay. Then there is the burden placed on public school districts that have no choice but to take in millions of new children who often speak no English and whose educations are not commensurate with those of their schoolmates. It is probably not coincidental that hospital systems across the nation have fallen deep into the red since the great mass migration crisis began. And large cities across the nation are looking to Washington for help with unfunded and unexpected fiscal burdens reaching into the tens of billions to care for the hundreds of thousands showing up with hand out.
Expense, of course, is only one part of the equation in terms of impact. Public safety, criminal justice, and national security systems face unprecedented new burdens as the personal histories and criminal backgrounds of most of the millions allowed easy entry are unknown and, often, unknowable. Some percentage will commit crimes and – in addition to the often horrendous effects on the victims of their crimes – increase the load on our already over-burdened courts and prisons. One prays not, but some may also commit acts of terrorism. Last but not least, this great influx will increase joblessness and put immense downward pressure on wages for American workers. The problem is not a lack of knowledge but a lack of political will. Too many of our elected leaders have selfish reasons to let the border crisis continue, no matter what their constituents demand. Whether they will be able to continue in their inaction is in the hands of the American people.
Source: Imprimis: An Immigration Crisis Beyond Imagining by Todd Bensman (January 2024).
BORDER DISORDER –SOME DETAILS: Biden, under pressure to appease his left flank, made it clear he’d welcome refugees. He promised to end the president’s “detrimental asylum policies.” He vowed to safeguard “the dignity of migrants and uphold their legal right to seek asylum.” He would “welcome immigrants in our communities.” His campaign website explained that “Trump has waged an unrelenting assault on our values and our history as a nation of immigrants. It’s wrong and it stops when Joe Biden is elected president.” And stop it he did. The new administration was so invested in hating Trump’s stance, it didn’t stop to think about the merit of any particular policy or the broader imperative of border security. Biden on his first day pronounced he was ending the construction of the border wall and revoking Trump’s presidential order on immigration enforcement. He also sent a sweeping immigration bill to Congress, with a proposal to fast-track citizenship for undocumented immigrants. The message to millions of would-be immigrants could not have been clearer. Get here fast, and you might just qualify for quick citizenship.
CODDLING THE CARTELS: A porous border brings with it other problems, including crime. Cartels are growing a lucrative business in Biden’s border policies. The New York Times in July 2022 reported that human smuggling has evolved over a decade from “a scattered network of freelance ‘coyotes’ into a multi-billion-dollar international business controlled by organized crime, including some of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels.” These smugglers are now taking full advantage of Biden’s border chaos.
The cartels are shipping more than humans. Fifteen years ago, hardly anyone in the country had heard of fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid that can easily lead to accidental overdose. The drug is fifty times more powerful than heroin and as much as a hundred times more potent than morphine. It can be taken on its own, though is increasingly being laced into other street drugs. The United States in 2021 experienced a record 107,000 overdoses, and the majority involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl. The Mexican border is now the source of nearly all fentanyl entering the U.S. As China started cracking down on fentanyl production, Mexican criminal networks cornered the market. These operations are exploding in scope, as the cartels employ more people to manufacture the cheap, easy-to-produce drug, and as the Biden border policy offers more opportunities for smuggling.
Source: The Biden Malaise by Kimberley Strassel (2023).
JOE BIDEN’S AMERICA, A SANCTUARY COUNTRY
America’s open southern border is her Achilles’ heel. It is our single most obvious weakness. Leaving the border open, as we do, encourages lawlessness. It sends a message to foreigners that if you violate our rules, you might get prioritized ahead of those who abide by them. Organized crime, that is, the cartels, typically has two products: humans and drugs. It’s morally reprehensible to tolerate either, yet we permit both. The whole process is hideous.
The cheap labor arrives in American towns and competes for low-skilled jobs, driving down the market value of American workers in our lowest class. Border agents are strained. Their families struggle. The desperate foreigners are all pawns in a global game being played by the richest and most privileged people in the world. Citizenship and national sovereignty are diminished. The American taxpayer is left hold the bag, as always. There is nothing good that comes from an open border. Yet we leave it open. We can’t help ourselves. Why?
Democrats don’t see the alien migrants as humans; they see them as votes. Maybe not those who cross today, but their progeny will be voters one day. The Democrats import their next generation; it’s easier and faster than birthing them and raising them. The nation’s “anchor baby” population keeps increasing; it may be at the highest level in U.S. history. The Center for Immigration Studies believes that nearly 400,000 children are born to illegal aliens on U.S. soil every year. The Democrats portray themselves as the ones who care, the ones who are truly empathetic to the plight of migrants. Their unwillingness to secure the border is the inciting incident in this horror movie: the precursor to all the humanitarian strife that follows.
There is definitive evidence that Joe Biden believes walls do work. In fact, he knows they do. In 2022, DHS awarded a Delaware company a $490,000 contract, paid for by the taxpayers, for a special security project of utmost importance to the nation: a security fence for Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, summer house.
Source: Breaking Biden by Alex Marlow (2023).
FALSE PROGRESSIVE COMPASSION: There are many reasons for Progressives to call for open borders. For some, it’s a way of signaling their virtue and showing how enlightened they are. For others, it’s an issue to run on, a way of generating political contributions and motivating voter turnout. For still others, illegal immigration is simply a source of cheap labor. And for many political strategists on the left, illegal immigration is a way of importing future citizens – and future Democratic voters. Democrats like to portray unrestricted illegal immigration as a matter of compassion. But where is the compassion in importing foreign born-underclass to do the work we won’t do – or won’t pay a decent wage to do? That’s not compassion. That’s exploitation – and it’s a racist policy. The crisis at the border is Joe Biden’s crisis, 100 percent. He owns it – lock, stock and unfinished wall.
Source: Radical Nation by Sean Spicer (2021)
KAMALA HARRIS: Things went badly for Harris from the get go. By August 2021, the number of border crossers had hit a twenty-year high. It was at this point that Harris finally released her strategy to address the crisis. She blamed the pandemic and “extreme weather conditions” for increased immigration. She proposed a vague five-pillar program that would ostensibly instill a “safe, orderly, and humane immigration system,” without outlining specific policy actions or when they would be implemented. None of the effective Trump policies was put back into place. A border wall was not a priority. She drew bipartisan criticism for not visiting the border to see the problems firsthand as they developed. This too should not have been a surprise, given that Harris’s public proclamations indicate that she doesn’t necessarily believe there is a border at all. Kamala Harris has also supported publicly funded, free health care for illegal aliens. “Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being access to public safety, public education, or public health. Period.”
Dangling free cutting edge health care for all who enter is the ultimate magnet for would be migrants hoping for a better life for their families -- a massive incentive to try to enter the country illegally. Murders, sexual assaults, and other crimes committed by illegal aliens do not make for pleasant reading, yet they have become a fixture on the pages of Breitbart.com since the massive influx of illegal immigration. Lawlessness spreads like a contagion: it is becoming our culture.
Source: Breaking Biden by Alex Marlow (2023)
Some of Harris’s wounds were self-inflicted. Part of the problem was her seeming inability to find her voice. As confident and effective as she’d been as a senator, skillfully interrogating witnesses in televised hearings, Harris seemed awkward and uncertain as vice president. She laughed inappropriately and chopped the air with her hands, which made her seem condescending. One unforced error occurred during the vice president’s two-day visit to Guatemala and Mexico in June 2021. It didn’t help that Guatemala’s president, Alejandro Giammattei, publicly disagree with Harris over the best approach to the migration crisis. “We are not on the same side of the coin. It is obvious,” he told CBS News. Things went from bad to worse when Harris sat for an interview with Lester Holt, the anchor of NBC Nightly News. Holt asked her: “Do you have any plans to visit the border.” “At some point,” Harris replied. “This whole thing about the border, we’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.” Holt said, “You haven’t been to the border.” She replied, “And I haven’t been to Europe. I don’t understand the point that you’re making.”
Holt’s point was that the border crisis was out of control, record numbers of immigrants were arriving, and that Harris, whether she liked it or not, would be held responsible. Border Patrol agents were no longer deliberately wrenching children from their parents’ arms, as they’d done under Trump, but refugees were languishing in overcrowded warehouses in deplorable conditions. The reality was that the border problems couldn’t be solved without overhauling the immigration system and there was no political will for that in Congress. But Harris’s unwillingness to make going to the border a priority had become a symbol of Biden’s failure to stem illegal immigration. The vice president had wobbled in her first foray overseas.
Source: The Fight of His Life by Chris Whipple (2023).
FENTANYL: A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION: When the border is open, drugs come in, and there is one drug in particular that is wreaking havoc across our nation. Fentanyl, a highly powerful synthetic opioid primarily produced in China and Mexico, has been flowing over the southern U.S. border at a torrid pace. Just two milligrams worth, which is less than a pinch of table salt, is considered a lethal dose. Overdose deaths skyrocketed in American between 2019 and 2021.
Republican congressmen have pushed legislation to classify fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction,” which would put pressure on China and Mexico to intervene to stop the flow into America. I dig it, but Democrats won’t support this. If they do, it is a tacit admission that the border needs to be secured, which they do not want under any circumstances. Butler Country, Pennsylvania, terminated their “sanctuary” designation over the influx of drugs being brought into the area. A “sanctuary city” is one that protects illegal aliens from deportation or prosecutions that they ought to face for violating federal immigration law.
Source: Breaking Biden by Alex Marlow (2023)
U.S. PAYS RECORD $20 BILLION TO WELCOME ILLEGAL ALIENS: In the past two fiscal years, the Biden administration has spent an astonishing $20 billion rolling out the welcome mat to accommodate, transport, and provide migrants with a multitude of services upon their arrival to the United States. Services provided to illegal immigrants include transitional and medical care, refugee support, programs for survivors of torture, emergency supplemental assistance and millions of dollars for minors, which are classified as unaccompanied alien children (UAC). Underaged migrants also receive costly extended services such as housing, schooling, recreational activities, legal help, and even long-term foster care for those who cannot be placed with family.
The Biden administration’s disastrous open border policies will only increase the cost of providing all these rewards to illegal aliens. There seems to be no end in sight, or meaningful plan from the Biden administration to stop or slow the number of people coming over the border. Another taxpayer-funded program for migrants offers intensive case management to help “extremely vulnerable individuals” overcome barriers. Under the plan, they receive emergency housing support, medical screening, work authorization applications, school enrollment, cultural orientation, legal assistance, mental health services and other costly benefits. Incredibly, the federal agency wants more money from Congress to expand services to a broader range of applicants despite record spending. This includes providing the same Medicaid and foster care services that American children get for illegal immigrant minors, legal assistance to Ukrainian and Afghan children to ensure permanent residency, cash assistance to full-time college or technical school students for refugees and removing the requirement that refugees obtain economic self-sufficiency as quickly as possible.
Source: Verdict by Judicial Watch Volume 30 (April 2024)
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
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