Biden sets the record for illegal immigration

 Hugo Gurdon:

President Joe Biden is on target, with policies at once vapid and cynical, to allow more than 2 million illegal migrants across the southern border into the United States this year — the worst influx since records began 97 years ago.

In October, Customs and Border Protection officials intercepted 164,303 people crossing the Mexican frontier. They come from 150 different countries, increasingly from the Eastern Hemisphere, and most are simply economic migrants. People head here primarily for the understandable reason that they’d prefer to live in comfort in a rich country than in penury in the backward ones from which they come. They are now dispersed around the country.

They don’t make coherent, let alone plausible, claims to be refugees. For that, under a 70-year-old United Nations convention, they would have to have a well-founded fear of persecution in their country of origin. Few do, although like many time-honored phrases, the U.N. definition is frayed to the point of disintegration, having been picked apart assiduously by its detractors.

The open-borders crowd on the Left and in the Democratic Party, who regard legal niceties and established processes as impediments rather than as safeguards of democracy, brush aside the distinction between migrants and asylum-seekers. They don’t approve of national borders in general and the U.S. border in particular, for frontiers are essential features of popular sovereignty to which, in their post-national anti-Americanism, they are hostile.
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There is more.

This is one of the most disgraceful policies by a President in history.  It is a cynical attempt to import voters who will support Democrats.  That is why he does not want immigrants from Cuba or Venezuela who have first-hand experience with the evils of liberalism and socialism.  They are also the kind of victims the refugee status was intended to deal with.

See, also:

Operation Steel Curtain plus 10,000 state troopers and National Guard units deployed to protect Texas border

And: 

Major study undercuts Biden explanation for surge in illegal immigration 
Migrants come for jobs, not fleeing violence or effects of climate change

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