Polling rebukes Biden's open borders policy

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Either having open borders is a good public policy or it isn’t.

At least in my simpleminded view people whose job it is to set policy should do so based on what is good for the country.

That’s not how Aaron Blake of the Washington Post sees things, at least from his point of view as a political analyst. For him, it is all about the polling. Democrats could get away with open borders while the Democrat base was OK with it. But now that Democrats don’t care for it, it may be time to change policies.

At least he is open about it; Democrats can harm the country all they want until the polls turn on them. This explains so much of Biden’s policymaking.

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Open borders were never good public policy. But as I have argued many times, Democrats were using the policy to harm the Red states where they just assumed the border crossers would accumulate, destroying the budgets and public safety of the deplorables.

But now that a fraction of those 8-10 million border crashers have migrated into Blue states, it’s time to change direction.

Remarkable polling results came out of New York on Monday. Even Democrats in this Siena College poll are saying things that sound somewhat reminiscent of the views of immigration hawks in the GOP:

• Nearly as many New York Democrats said migrants coming to the state over the past 20 years have been a “burden” (35 percent) as said they have been a “benefit” (37 percent).
• 75 percent of New York Democrats said the recent influx of migrants to the state was at least a “somewhat serious” problem. Nearly half (47 percent) said it was a “very serious” problem.
• 53 percent of New York Democrats agreed with the statement that “New Yorkers have already done enough for new migrants and should now work to slow the flow of migrants to New York.” (The alternative was that the state should “accept new migrants and work to assimilate them into New York,” a position with which 41 percent of the Democratic respondents agreed.)

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 Open borders were a demonstrably bad idea, and as Blake shows the popularity of a border wall was relatively high both before and now after Trump’s presidency, and the only reason why it was controversial with the public was that Democrats hated Trump, and Trump wanted a border wall.

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Dem states are turning against it because the migrants are coming to their states now and not just the border states.  The busing of migrants to Democrat cities by Texas and others is having the intended results.