*Here’s How Biden Admin Destroyed Our Immigration Law
Victor Davis Hanson / September 22, 2023
Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 million
and 8 million illegal entries across the now-nonexistent southern
border of the U.S.
The more the border vanished, the more federal immigration law
was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security Secretary
Alejandro Mayorkas spun fantasies that the “border is secure.” He
is now written off as a veritable “Baghdad Bob” propagandist.
But how and why did the Biden administration destroy immigra-
tion law as we knew it?
The Trump administration’s initial efforts to close the border
had been continually obstructed in the Congress, sabotaged by the
administrative state, and stymied in the courts. Nonetheless, it
finally had secured the border by early 2020.
Yet almost all the Trump administration’s successful initia-
tives were immediately overturned in 2021.
Construction of the wall was abruptly stopped, its projected
trajectory canceled. The disastrous Obama-era “catch and release”
policy of immigration nonenforcement was resurrected.
Prior successful pressure on Mexican President Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador to stop the deliberate export of his own citizens
northward ceased.
Federal Border Patrol officers were forced to stand down.
New federal subsidies were granted to entice and then support
illegal arrivals.
No one in the Democratic Party objected to the destruction of
the border or the subversion of immigration law.
However, things changed somewhat once swamped southern border
states began to bus or fly a few thousand of their illegal immi-
grants northward to sanctuary city jurisdictions—especially to New
York and Chicago, and even Martha’s Vineyard.
The sanctuary-city “humanists” there who had greenlighted
illegal immigration into the southern states suddenly shrieked.
They were irate after experiencing the concrete consequences of
their own prior abstract border agendas. After all, their nihilism
was always supposed to fall upon distant and ridiculed others.
New York Mayor Eric Adams went from celebrating a few dozen
illegal immigrants bused into Manhattan to blasting his own party
for allowing tens of thousands to swamp his now bankrupt city.
But why did the Biden administration deliberately unleash the
largest influx across the southern border in U.S. history?
The ethnic chauvinists and Democratic Party elites needed new
constituents, given their increasingly unpopular agendas.
They feared that the more legal Latino immigrants assimilated
and integrated into American society, the less happy they became
with left-wing radical abortion, racial, transgender, crime, and
green fixations.
Democratic grandees always had bragged that illegal immigra-
tion would create what they called “The New Democratic Majority” in
“Demography Is Destiny” fashion. Now they slander critics as
“racists” who object to left-wing efforts to use illegal immigra-
tion to turn southwestern red states blue.
Mexico now cannot survive as a modern state without some $60
billion in annual remittances sent by its expatriates in America.
But many illegal immigrants rely on American state and federal
entitlements to free up cash to send home.
Mexico also encourages its own abject poor and often indigen-
ous people from southern Mexico to head north as a safety valve of
sorts. The Mexican government sees these mass exoduses northward
as preferable to the oppressed marching on Mexico City to address
grievances of poverty and racism.
The criminal cartels now de facto run Mexico. An open border
allows them to ship fentanyl northward, earn billions in profits
and kill nearly 100,000 Americans a year. Illegal immigrants pay
cartels additional billions to facilitate their border crossings.
Don’t forget American corporate employers. Record labor non-
participation followed the COVID-19 lockdown. In reaction to the
dearth of American workers, the hospitality, meat packing, social
service, health care, and farming industries were desperate to hire
new—and far cheaper—labor.
Human rights activists insist that the borders themselves are
19th-century relics. And the global poor and oppressed thus have a
human right to enter the affluent West by any means necessary.
Many in the tony suburbs and in universities do not live any-
where near the southern border. So, they pontificate on the assur-
ance that thousands of unaudited illegal immigrants will never
enter their own enclaves or campuses.
The result is elite bottled piety—but not firsthand experience
with the natural consequences of millions chaotically fleeing one
of the poorest countries in the world to pour into the wealthiest.
Without background checks, vaccinations and health audits, legality,
high school diplomas, English facility, skill sets, or capital, the
result is an abject catastrophe.
Polls continue to show that the American people support mea-
sured, diverse, legal, and meritocratic immigration as much as they
oppose mass illegal immigration into their country and the subse-
quent loss of American sovereignty on the border.
They understand what the Biden administration does not: No
nation in history has survived once its borders were destroyed,
once its citizenship was rendered no different from mere residence,
and once its neighbors with impunity undermined its sovereignty.
Ending illegal immigration now depends solely on the American
people overriding the corrupt special interests and leaders who
profit from the current chaos and human misery.*
Since Joe became president, about 6 million illegals have come
into the US, not counting the 'got-aways, ones brought in for sex
trafficking, brought by coyotes and cartels and the ones that don't
pass through the border checks or don't get caught. This is esti-
mated to total about 7-8 million costing American taxpayers in the
billions and Biden still refuses to fix the problem.
Some figures show that 200,000-300,000 illegally enter the US
monthly.
We are in very serious trouble. Democratic cities are nearly
bankruptcy while they NOW scream at the Government for funds.
Hundreds of thousands are getting low income labor jobs as
cheap as half of minimum wage.
We are rapidly becoming a 3rd world country.
Sadly most liberals are not even aware because their corrupt
media just doesn't tell them.
God will save His people. Where do you stand?
Conservatively,
John
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