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Yes, There Is A Border Crisis, And Democrats Created It
Even when he was a presidential candidate, Joe Biden promised the United States would accept all asylum seekers, although U.S. asylum has been studded with fraud and abuse for a long time.
Yes, There Is A Border Crisis, And Democrats Created It (thefederalist.com)Even when he was a presidential candidate, Joe Biden promised the United States would accept all asylum seekers, although U.S. asylum has been studded with fraud and abuse for a long time.
22 Mar 2021 ~~ By Helen Raleigh
Although the Biden administration is attempting to deny and shift blame for the border crisis, its actions speak louder than words. A week ago, it had to send the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the southern border to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection bring illegal immigrants into the United States.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wasted little time blaming former U.S. President Trump for passing a broken immigration system to the current administration. However, it is President Biden’s immigration policies as well as Democrats’ ill-conceived immigration proposals that are responsible for today’s border crisis.
Even when he was a presidential candidate, Biden promised the United States would accept all asylum seekers, although U.S. asylum has been studded with fraud and abuse for a long time. As soon as he was sworn into office, President Biden signed three executive orders to undo the previous administration’s strong immigration law enforcement.
De Facto Open Borders from Day One
One such policy was the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” protocol, which made asylum seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. immigration courts to hear their asylum petitions. One of Biden’s executive orders ended this Trump policy, and the United States has admitted asylum seekers into the country since then, regardless of their petitions’ credibility.
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Democrats to World: Take Advantage Of Americans
Last month, House Democrats added fuel to the fire by introducing a far-reaching immigration bill dubbed the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. The bill is largely based on immigration proposals Biden campaigned on, including offering amnesty to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in this country by creating an express route to citizenship for them while investing little in measures to strengthen border security.
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The U.S. Border Patrol agents reportedly apprehended close to 100,000 migrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, about 30 percent more than that in January. Almost half of these illegal border-crossers came from Mexico, and about 12 percent came from countries outside of Central America (some came as far as East Asia and the Middle East).
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Democrats Refused a Chance to Improve Immigration
For too long, Americans have been told that any immigration reform had to be a choice between a severe restriction and open-border policies, while leaves the family-reunion-based model unchanged. However, in 2019, the Trump administration offered House Democrats a grand bargain on immigration reform by proposing a new approach: maintain the current number of legal immigrants at about 1.1 million admitted annually, and change from emphasizing family re-unification to emphasizing skill-based immigrants.
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Stop Using Immigrants as Political Pawns
What’s happening at our southern border right now is a man-made humanitarian crisis. We are witnessing the real-time consequence of disastrous public policies put forward by the Biden administration and congressional Democrats.
For the sake of everyone’s health and safety, the Biden administration must learn from the facts on the ground, reverse its policies, and stop incentivizing migrants to make those risky journeys north to enter the United States illegally.
Long-term, congressional Democrats should sit down with Republicans to develop a bipartisan immigration reform bill that no longer relies on the outdated family-based model. Instead, it should focus on skills and work, incentivizing legal immigration, and creating a win-win system for immigrants and the United States of America.
Comment:
This is just a return to the Obama Plan Mexico and Cntral America, the policy of Trump’s predecessor.
The Democrat policy of open borders/amnesty has been for 3.5 decades.
Trump is the only one who wanted to stop it and both parties conspired to cheat him out of office.