Friday, February 9, 2024

The absurd Dem border con - Victor Davis Hanson

  Victor Davis Hanson (jewishworldreview.com)

Still, it remains somewhat unclear why Biden and his Homeland Security chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, destroyed what Trump had achieved. Why would they ensure such misery for both American hosts and millions of illegal immigrants?

"In 2021, President Joe Biden opened wide an inherited, secure southern border that had finally stopped mass illegal immigration.

"When he overturned former President Donald Trump's efforts, a planned flood of over 8 million illegal immigrants entered the U.S.

"Almost all arrived without background checks, health screening, or vaccination certificates — but with massive needs for free housing, education, healthcare, and food entitlements and subsidies.

"For four years, Trump battled the courts, his Democratic opposition, and the open-border establishments within his own party to ensure legal-only immigration. Somehow, he rebuilt some of the old porous border fence. He had begun to build his long-promised new wall to the Gulf of Mexico. He had ended Obama-era catch-and-release.

"Would-be refugees had to apply for asylum in their home country. Trump leveraged Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to police his own border and stop cynically transiting millions of illegal aliens into the U.S.

"There was general Democratic Party opposition to all of Trump's measures, both through Congress and via the courts.

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