This ongoing narrative that Biden "opened the border" is a complete lie. Trump cynically just used an unprecedented migrant crisis and blamed it all on Biden for political purposes.
1. The record number of migrants that came during Biden's term was a result of factors completely outside his control. Trump's anti-immigrant policies during his first term as well as all the effects of Covid created a groundswell of pent up demand that exploded. AND Illegal immigration had already increased to a 21-year high before Biden entered office.
2. America recovered much faster from Covid than everywhere else, so we had a robust labor market while Latin America was still dystopian. And then Trump's bad immigration policies incentivized illegal entries. Additionally, migrants now had access to internet information about how to travel illegally to the US.
3. Accounting for this record rush of people, Biden performed well. From his administration’s first day in January 2021, Biden actually increased border enforcement—arrests, detentions, and removals of border crossers all increased. Biden immediately started increasing expulsions from his first day in office.
4. Despite Biden’s historic crackdown, expulsions did not deter migrants, even among demographics universally expelled. Catch and releases occurred not because Biden cut removals, but because migration grew faster than the administration could increase them.
5. So essentially Biden had no choice but to respond the way he did. By international law, you have to give due process to anyone showing up at your border seeking asylum.
6. And toward the end of Biden's term, migrant flow was already decreasing. When there was a bipartisan bill that would solve a lot of the problems at the border, Trump and his cronies killed it so he can try to win the election. We may never get a bill like that again FOR DECADES.
Basically, Trump is a scumbag that killed the first sweeping immigration reform bill we've had since the 80's. It was on the verge of passing with wide bipartisan support, and would have greatly increased the amount of asylum judges and increased funding significantly.
Trump's Immigration Policies are Racist, Fascist and Ineffective.
At a time of economic uncertainty and inflation, Trump is demonizing all immigrants (that aren't white) as criminals and rapists. Blaming them as the cause of increased crime and housing prices, when they have nothing to do with it. The much greater blame goes to Trump's economic policies and giving tax breaks to the rich.
White people are slowly becoming no longer the majority population of this country and that makes a lot of poor Hwwwiiites insecure. Trump is tapping into that working class white fragility by fearmongering brown people.
1. The truth is illegals are a huge net positive to the economy. They pay almost 94 billion a year in taxes and most of them will never benefit from that because they can't get Social Security and Medicaid.
If we deport all illegals, our economy would literally collapse. We'd probably be paying 3-4 times higher prices for fruits and vegetables.
2. Trump is lying that illegals are causing all this crime. Every statistical study shows illegals commit far less crime than native Americans.
3. Finally, Trump will never be able to deport many illegals anyway. Despite all his rhetoric, he's only managed to deport around 400K. His administration keeps saying 2 million self deported, but that is very likely completely made up bullshit.
Obama and Biden deported FAR more people than Trump who is using inhumane and fascist tactics. LMAO how pathetic.
4. Trump is ignoring all due process and illegally deporting people that have legal statuses. Many have applied for asylum or are in the process of applying for a green card or some other legal status.
5. He's total scum for separating families and deporting people who have been here for decades. The VAST MAJORITY of whom do not have criminal records. Trump LIED and said he would only go after the criminals.
That's part of the reason a lot of Latinos voted for him. Now they've been betrayed and will all vote Democrat next election cycle. FAFO.
And lastly, the vast majority of the new arrivals are here to stay and there is nothing Trump can do about it. It is completely unrealistic (and impossible) to deport millions upon millions of people from the interior of the country.
The best solution would be to giving mass amnesty to all the people already here and a pathway to citizenship. In return for this, the Dems and GOP can negotiate a much better way of securing the border. This is the way.
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