I & I Editorial BoardJoe Biden is very clearly in the running to be the worst U.S. president ever. To understand why that’s true, you need only look at the Democrat’s refusal to protect the integrity of our borders. It’s almost as if he wants America to disappear.
As we’ve noted here before, we do not oppose immigration. But, as with everything else, immigration is governed by laws, rules and principles. Unfortunately, when it comes to immigration, Biden simply ignores the law and instead uses presidential command in its place.
The result: chaos on our border and, increasingly, on our streets as city after city suffers from rising illegal immigrant crime. And it’s going to get worse.
Already, an estimated 7.4 million illegal immigrants have made their way into the U.S. during Biden’s presidency. That doesn’t include the nearly 2 million “gotaways” who were spotted by border officials crossing the border, but didn’t get nabbed.
“These numbers are further proof of President Biden and (Department of Homeland Security) Secretary Mayorkas’ radical commitment to open borders, and the secretary’s high crimes and misdemeanors committed to make them a reality,” House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green said in a statement on Monday.
Among the “gotaways” this month making crime news were a 24-year-old Guatemalan male who allegedly raped a minor in Massachusetts and another from El Salvador charged with rape and murder a mother of five in Maryland. A 24-year-old Ecuadorian arrested for raping a 13-year-old girl in New York was caught crossing the border but released into the U.S.
Open-border advocates claim this proves nothing. But that’s not true. None of those crimes would have taken place if our border controls had been enforced.
And an even greater threat, sooner or later, will be terrorists with ties to ISIS, such as those who earlier this month were arrested, and cartel members like those that, as NBC News put it in a story three years ago, “capture, extort and torture” those trying to cross the border.
It’s getting uglier by the minute. Britain’s Daily Mail recently ran a map purportedly showing “America’s Migrant Gang Invasion,” including cartel members, gang-bangers, ISIS followers, sex traffickers and other unsavory types. All from Biden’s open border.
With the unprecedented flow of undocumented people crossing our borders, we’ll be getting more of this — lots more of this. Crime, poverty, higher spending.
Americans, of course, are furious. It shows up in polls. In our own April I&I/TIPP Poll, 58% of voters supported building a wall along our southern border and “rigidly” enforcing all border laws.
This is no outlier.
A CBS/YouGov Poll found 62% of Americans, including Democrats, support deporting “all” undocumented immigrants. All of them. Even Hispanics don’t back uncontrolled immigration, with 53% saying they would support mass deportations, versus 47% who said they would oppose it.
With voter anger growing and the 2024 election looming, Biden has repeatedly vowed to do something, with his spokespeople touting a Biden “executive order” to regain control of the border.
So what was his big executive order? A plan that really doesn’t crack down on illegal immigration at all, but grants amnesty or “parole in place” for hundreds of thousands of people — half a million by the White House’s own estimate.
The “Keeping American Families Together” plan isn’t new. This is just an expansion of current law, with fewer hard rules. In short, it’s an amnesty plan that will encourage more, not less, illegal immigration. But it’s in addition to the “temporary amnesty” program, already in place, that protects 860,000 illegals from being deported.
All this generosity has turned the U.S. into an illegal immigration magnet.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Biden’s border surge that he verbally encouraged will bring in 8.7 million more immigrants between 2021 and 2026. The border crisis, according to congressional estimates, is already costing the U.S. $451 billion a year.
How much more will you be willing to spend?
We hate to be cynical, but why would a major political party commit itself to such a disastrous course unless it expected a payoff down the road? Like millions more grateful voters, all heavily dependent on government aid to get by? So, OK, call us cynical. But that’s sure the way it looks.
Biden and his Democratic supporters have chosen unassailable political power over the integrity of their nation’s borders, its Constitution, and the clearly expressed will of the American people, as reflected in numerous polls. More than anything, this is why the 2024 election is crucial.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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Is there any room for doubt about the motivations? As my grandmother said, “If you think you saw a mouse scurry across the kitchen floor, you did”.
Longer term incompetence can be identified by its inconsistencies. You know what it looks like; blind squirrel finding nuts, broken clock being right twice, etc. In this case, as with puppet-Biden’s other issues, there are no inconsistencies. There is nothing but destruction of rule of law, breakdown in quality, and loss of capability. No, the folks running Joe Biden are not incompetent. They have a goal and are driving headlong towards it.
It’s not Biden’s open border disaster. It is what Obama wanted but couldn’t do in his own name.
The actual number of Biden Illegals is likely between 15-20 million. Add that to the huge number already here (the 11 million figure stopped being true in the 1990s) and we’re looking at a likely 55-65 million, or 15%-20% of the total YS population. Still think mass deportation is a waste of time? If we crack down on employers with massive fines and stop giving them handouts many will self-deport.
The liberal Media who only provides installments of the illegal invasion instead of the cumulative total. Since the last Congressional Amnesty, the Democrats have welcomed 53 million illegals who are protected by Democrat sanctuary cities. In 2024, many Democrat Governors are now allowing illegals to vote.
The bottom line is that the DEMented Party is enacting Treason under “President Fraud.” That quote about Joe is from the Delaware Supreme Court in 2023.
“President Fraud” needs to be Impeached for treason ASAP.