At present time, the United States' southern border is wide open. Unaccompanied alien children, single alien men and intact alien families are all pouring over en masse. Anecdotal horror stories abound. Illegal immigration—let alone the extraordinarily high volume of illegal immigration now transpiring—is not an abstract or academic concept. Yes, policies such as amnesty and catch-and-release are fundamentally unjust insofar as they deprive U.S. citizens of agency over the most consequential decisions that citizens in a free republic are ever asked to contemplate: who else to admit into the body politic. And the very notion of sovereignty is undermined and rendered unintelligible. But there are also tangible, sweeping harms from widespread illegal immigration affecting all relevant stakeholders. Democrats who wish to downplay those harms for the sake of boosting intersectional street cred with their "woke" base are doing no one any favors.
Non-citizens constitute only about 7 percent of the U.S. population. Yet the latest data from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that non-citizens accounted for nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of all federal arrests in 2018. Just two decades earlier, only 37 percent of all federal arrests were non-citizens.
These arrests aren’t just for immigration crimes. Non-citizens accounted for 24 percent of all federal drug arrests, 25 percent of all federal property arrests, and 28 percent of all federal fraud arrests.
The open borders agenda massively empowers and enriches the smuggling rings that the media typically refer to as the "drug cartels," but which are better understood as barbarous transnational criminal syndicates that sometimes even sync up with Chinese fentanyl exporters and internationally recognized terrorist outfits, such as Hezbollah. These are some of the most vicious organizations in the Western world and, as even The New York Times reported in 2019, are known for widespread raping and sexual violence committed against female migrants. Ranchers along the often-barren high deserts of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona are imminently endangered by the cartels' depredations in their own (literal) backyards.
Blue-collar workers of all races and backgrounds are hurt by an uncontrollable deluge of cheap, low-wage migrants who lack labor market bargaining power for the simple reason that they are not here legally. Pro-immigration enforcement states are perversely penalized in the U.S. Census—at least under the erroneous prevailing practice, which Trump sought to change, of counting both legal and illegal aliens—when they lose congressional representation to "sanctuary city"-enabling blue states that mollycoddle illegal aliens.
But we do know why so many people from all over the world are attempting to illegally enter the country now. It’s because Joe Biden said during last year’s campaign and since he took office he was going to provide free healthcare, stop deportations, and pass a massive amnesty bill. He invited this crisis!
Wouldn’t you like to get free healthcare, a free education for your kids, and be forgiven for breaking the law? Illegal aliens are getting a better deal than most Americans!
Don’t think this is just a border-state problem. Migrants apprehended at the border are being sent to states all over the country. Every state is being turned into the equivalent of a border state.
Meanwhile, our schools aren’t fully open yet, but the border is wide open. And the cartels are fully exploiting this vulnerability, charging thousands of dollars to smuggle people and who knows what else across the border.
A new Rasmussen poll finds that 73% of voters are concerned about the crisis at the border, while a majority opposes granting amnesty to illegal aliens. Strong majorities also support commonsense measures like ending chain migration and requiring employers to verify the citizenship of job applicants.
And 90% of voters say illegal immigrants should be tested for COVID before being released, but that isn’t happening. Biden’s insane policies have created a super-spreader event along the entire southern border!
One final thought: Biden and the woke left are constantly telling us that we are a country sick with “systemic racism” and “white supremacy.” And yet the overwhelming majority of people trying to come in are people of color.
If the U.S. is so racist, why is there such fervent desire to come live here?
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