Why Exactly Did They Destroy the Border?

"Biden’s border chaos wasn’t accidental—it was a political strategy to reshape America’s electorate and expand left-wing power."

 Victor Davis Hanson › American Greatness  

"Yet the triumphant Left never imagined a Trump reelection. Nor could it grasp fully Trump’s counterrevolutionary effort to secure the border and undo the Biden nihilism.    

 

"Why would any president destroy the U.S. southern border?

"The Left typically “pounces” on anyone daring to suggest that the Biden administration had green-lighted illegal immigration to gain new constituents for agendas that otherwise were without broad public support.

"The Left smears critics of open borders as racist conspiracists spreading the “Great Replacement Theory.”

"Yet for years, Democrats and leftists themselves had written triumphalist books with titles like The Emerging Democratic Majority. And often they crowed that “Demography is Destiny.”

"A few left-wing globalists even boasted of a new borderless world, in which anyone could live anywhere he wished.

"Not too long ago, Texas State Representative Gene Wu (D-Houston), chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, jumped the shark to say out loud what is usually left unsaid about the Democrat agenda:

The day the Latino, African American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning, because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone.

"The same unapologetic left-wing weaponization of illegal immigration is occurring in Europe. Sheer numbers there have already radically changed the demography—and political constituencies—of the continent.

"Recently, the former Spanish “Minister of Equality,” an energized Irene Montero, offered an unambiguous rant: “I hope for ‘replacement theory.’ I hope we can sweep this country of fascists and racists with immigrants. Whatever their skin color, whether ‘Chinese, Black, or Brown.’”

"The culmination of the new hubris in the U.S. was the Biden administration’s destruction of the southern border and enforcement of federal immigration law.

"On some days, the Biden influx exceeded anyone’s wildest imagination, at a rate of 10,000 illegal entrants per day. The Homeland “Security” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, in Baghdad Bob style, occasionally pontificated that the border was “secure”—as thousands in the background illegally swarmed the border, without health or even rudimentary background checks." . . .  More...

Pritzker: I'll require Section 8 Housing in every Illinois suburb

DuPage Policy Journal

"Section 8 housing was built near our subdivision in a major California city. What ensued was a massive crime wave in our neighborhood. Homeowners had to to install bars on windows and doors and children were restricted from playing outside. Even adults became fearful of walking their pets after dark." Comment

Democrat Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker will push for state laws that mandate Illinois communities allow building of unlimited “Section 8” and other taxpayer-subsidized apartment units on any residential lot.

Pritzker unveiled his suburban Section 8 plan during his annual State of the State address, which he gave Wednesday.

Taking aim at single family homeowners in the Chicago suburbs, Pritkzer said their “shameful” opposition to taxpayer-subsidized Section 8 apartments are responsible for driving up the cost of Illinois housing.

Community zoning laws “have made it too difficult and costly to build new (Section 8) housing,” Pritzker said, chiding suburban Illinoisans who oppose high-density, subsidized apartments as old-fashioned and behind the “times.”

“Often, the problem is a failure to modernize and keep up with the changing times we live in,” Pritzker said.

Pritzker will seek new laws passed by the Democrat-supermajority Illinois General Assembly that would bar Chicago suburbs from prohibiting the building of apartments on any residential lot. He’ll also seek to give another $100 million to the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA), the state agency that subsidizes the building of Section 8 apartments.

Seismically, the governor’s plan would prohibit Illinois suburban communities fom requiring minimum residential lot sizes greater than 2,500 square feet, or 20 percent smaller than a standard 25 by 125 (3,125 square foot) City of Chicago lot.

Pritzker’s plan would mandate that anyone could build a four-flat of Section 8 apartments on any 2,500 square-foot suburban lot in Illinois, a six-flat on a 5,000 square foot lot and an eight-flat on a 7,500 square foot lot.

Elmhurst’s minimum residential lot size is 7,260 to 9,000 square feet. Naperville’s is 10,000 square feet for single family homes.

In Glen Ellyn, minimum lot sizes range from 7,500 to 40,000 square feet, in Hinsdale they are 10,000 to 30,000 square feet and in Wheaton, 6,500 to 43,560 square feet.

In Downers Grove, the minimum lot size for new construction is 10,500 square feet.

“Zoning has been a scam”

The proposal was cheered by government-subsidized developers who build and invest in apartments, and by real estate brokers who will grow their businesses marketing them." . . .

NFL's Chicago Bears May Bolt to Pro-Growth Indiana  

"The move to Indiana is not yet final, but it sure is looking like the Bears are heading for "exit" in the exit, voice, and loyalty framework. How it will affect the team's performance and profits is an open question. Yet if the shock of one more high-profile departure helps motivate those remaining in Illinois to adopt more sensible and pro-growth policies, or elect more sensible and pro-growth politicians, it could eventually be some sort of a win."

That has been the mantra in California for decades. TD