The Biden border bungle

 Victor Davis Hanson:

Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 and 8 million illegal entries across the now nonexistent U.S. southern border.

The more the border vanished, the more federal immigration law was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security 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 immigration 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 had finally secured the border by early 2020.

Yet almost all its successful initiatives were immediately overturned in 2021.

The wall was abruptly stopped, its projected trajectory canceled. The Obama-era disastrous "catch-and release" policy of immigration non-enforcement was resurrected.

Prior successful pressure on Mexico's 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 immigrants northward to sanctuary city jurisdictions -- especially to New York, 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 by 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 had always bragged that illegal immigration 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 immigration 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 indigenous people from southern Mexico to head north as a safety-valve of sorts. The 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.

Do not forget American corporate employers. Record labor nonparticipation followed the COVID 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 nineteenth-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 anywhere near the border. So they pontificate on the assurance that thousands of unaudited illegal immigrants will never enter their own enclaves or campuses.
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Joe Biden has many idiotic policies and his immigration open borders policies are among the worse.  He obviously does not care who is coming into the US or why.  This careless policy hurts working-class voters.  He is also importing a criminal class that is victimizing US citizens with drugs and other criminal activity.  There have been some indicators that he is doing this to rig the US Electoral College for Democrats.

See, also:

Broken barriers. Federal forces helping migrants cross. Charities' millions spent bussing them North. DailyMail.com exposes the damning TRUTH behind Biden's laughable border crisis claims

And:

 Greater Migrant Surge Headed for U.S. Border

 The arrival of thousands of northbound migrants to Panama through the jungle signals they will soon be at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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And:

 BRUTAL: Melugin Excoriates KJP on Border After Silencing Doocy in Wild Briefing

The Biden border crisis has reared its ugly head in the last week and brought more misery and ruin to border towns, including Eagle Pass, Texas. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre offered clownish spin Thursday afternoon that President Biden “has taken...historic action” to “fix this issue” and, not surprisingly, she received not only some hardballs from select reporters, but a searing fact-check afterward on the Fox News Channel by correspondent Bill Melugin.

Melugin’s colleague Peter Doocy tried to wade in on the questioning, but he was suddenly shut down when he tried to push back on Jean-Pierre.

After The Wall Street Journal’s Ken Thomas asked whether expanding temporary protected status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan illegal immigrants would “make the situation” in Eagle Pass “worse” (and Jean-Pierre claimed Republicans wants drugs flowing into the country), Doocy had a simple question: “So, what do you call it here at the WH when 10,000 people illegally cross the border in a single day?”
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After two decent question from Dallas Morning News’s Todd Gillman, Doocy’s Fox colleague Edward Lawrence seemed to pick up on what Doocy had tried to ask, which was “how many people coming into this country illegally is enough for President Biden” to truly stop the flow.
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“The bottom line is the migrants really just don’t have a fear of consequence for crossing the border illegally. They believe if they get here, they are going to get released into the country...They really don’t fear removal and they smile and they wave and they say the border’s open,” he (Melugin) explained.
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