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So true. I couldn't have stated it better. -- Lucas

https://amgreatness.com/2024/01/02/the-utter-insanity-of-joe-bidens-open-border/

The Utter Insanity of Joe Biden’s Open Border
If the amorality of illegal immigration were not so deleterious to
Americans, its absurdity would be laughable.

By Victor Davis Hanson

January 2, 2024
There have been more than 8 million illegal entries into the United
States since Joe Biden was elected president. He appointed Alejandro
Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security, whose apparent prime
directive was to destroy the southern border.

That task is precisely what Mayorkas has now accomplished. The result is
that the border is neither “porous” nor “problematic,” but nonexistent, kaput, vanished—and by design.

In one of the most surreal experiences in the history of the United
States, each night Americans see video clips of thousands of foreign
nationals crossing the border en masse with complete impunity—as if the entire corpus of federal immigration law has been dynamited.

But by whom? And why?

As millions of citizens watch this travesty, they hear only from
Mayorkas, Biden, and his Pravda megaphone, Karin Jean-Pierre, that the
border is “secure”—a Baghdad Bob narrative that they know that we know
is an utter lie.

Surely, this deliberate effort to destroy an entire border, to invite in millions of unchecked illegal aliens, and to violate oaths to execute faithfully the laws of the land are impeachable offenses for both Biden
and Mayorkas. If not, what are?

Stranger still, Americans have no real idea why these revolutionaries
are destroying our border.

Are they nineteenth-century anarchists who want to undermine the United
States itself? Are they cynical “Demography is Destiny” and “The New Democratic Majority” leftists who need new dependent Democrat
constituents to find votes for agendas that most Americans reject?

Do they want to create billions of dollars in new entitlements and
subsidies to grow government, hike taxes, and make the upper middle
class pay, as Biden puts it, “their fair share?”

Whatever the cause of this nihilism, there are at least 10 ways their
open border is insidiously destroying the United States.

Legal immigration

Does legal immigration still exist? Are we still requiring those who
would enter the U.S. legally to provide required documents, undergo
audits, and complete background checks?

Is not the current policy de facto punishing those who follow the law by
tying them up in bureaucratic red tape for years as we reward unlawful
behavior by greenlighting amnesties for lawbreakers?

Is the Biden administration’s policy designed to deflect those from
South Korea with MDs, or from Mumbai with PhDs, or from Taiwan with
MBAs, by putting their applications on a slow, second-track pathway? Is
DEI at work in the sense that America does not want here the
accomplished who earned degrees and possess vital skills, as if they are thereby condemned as “privileged?”

Does Biden realize that his legacy of inviting in “surging” millions, in contradiction of the law, will soon erode all support for immigration,
legal or otherwise?

Lawless US

Does the utter lawlessness at the border contribute to the general
coarseness and current mockery of the rule of law in general—an epidemic
that plagues our cities with homelessness, smash-and-grabs,
car-jackings, and random assaults?

Is the rationale that if you can walk freely past border security
guards, who cares whether you ignore a summons, throw away a traffic
ticket, or skip reporting some income?

Dependency

If the first thing a foreign national does is to violate the law by
crossing the border without permission, and the second is to reside
illegally in the US, and the third is to apply for some sort of food,
housing, medical, legal, or educational subsidy, then is that really the
type of new resident we desire?

Apparently, what the United States does not want is the immigration
model of old, one in which immigrants applied legally, came here
lawfully through authorized ports of entry, and were self-supporting
upon arrival.

In other words, it may be hard to shake from Biden’s likely 10 million illegal aliens their initial assumption that, 1) in America, the laws do
not apply to them and, 2) their new naïve or guilt-ridden hosts, not themselves, are responsible for their welfare.

Cui Bono?

We suspect the Left and employers welcome illegal immigrants; the more
en masse and without audit, the better.

But how do millions simply leave their homes, cross international
borders, and get waved on to El Norte? What is the mentality of Mexico
that facilitates this mass exodus northward from its neighbors and from
itself?

Is Mexico a frenemy?

Do we even care that some $60 billion leaves the U.S. as remittances
into Mexico, mostly by illegal residents here who are on state and local subsidies to free up their billions of dollars to support people inside
Mexico that Mexico City has no intention of helping?

Is such a gargantuan cash outflow, then, Mexican socialist President Obrador’s cynical idea of payback for supposed historical Yanqui sins?
Does he think a new, huge expatriate community will continue to lobby
for Mexico to do what it pleases on our side of the border? Does illegal immigration warp U.S. foreign policy itself?

Cartels

Does anyone worry that among the millions moving northward are hundreds
of Mexican cartel functionaries loaded with tens of thousands of pounds
of dangerous drugs, fentanyl most prominently?

Do we even care that the U.S. is enriching the cartels through its
tolerance of drug importation and alien smuggling? With open borders,
are we not abetting the annual 100,000 or so deaths of Americans through overdoses, often by the counterfeiting of fentanyl to resemble less
toxic illicit drugs and prescription tranquilizers, sedatives, and
painkillers?

Is there any other enemy in the world—Russia, China, or Iran—that has helped kill more Americans than the cartels, along with the culpable
Mexican government that deflects cartel criminality and violence northward?

Trashing Citizens

Illegal immigration is insidiously diminishing citizenship by equating
illegal aliens with, if not making them preferable to, American
citizens. Is there anything an illegal alien cannot do in Biden’s America—work in a campaign, vote in some elections, serve in the
military, receive government subsidies? Crisscross international borders without a passport?

To put it another way, why did we expel 8,400 US military personnel for
the “crime” of passing on the required but experimental mRNA
vaccinations (most of the discharged had natural immunity from prior
COVID infections), while we let in millions of foreigners without
worrying whether any have been vaccinated for anything, much less have
had COVID tests?

Why are we forcing every American to recalibrate, at great expense,
their identification to a “Real ID” to ensure security within our
airline industry while putting tens of thousands of illegal aliens,
without any documents, on flights throughout the country?

Does the Biden administration policy translate into something like, ‘We
know and therefore don’t trust Americans, so we must apply airline
boarding standards to them that we certainly do not need with more
reliable and trustworthy illegal and unaudited aliens?’

Why, in bankrupt cities like New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, where
social services are overwhelmed with thousands of needy citizens, are we imploding such facilities with influxes of illegal aliens?

Do we prefer the latter to the former? Does the Biden administration’s message again read something like, ‘We care more about the health status
of those south of the border than our own citizen poor in our own inner
cities, so please surge on up?’

Who Pays?

At $34 trillion in debt, and with budget deficits normalizing at near $2 trillion a year, where does America find the hundreds of billions, if
not eventually trillions of dollars, to welcome in millions of the unaudited—all in need of immediate no-questions-asked entitlements, and
for some years on end?

Is California the model, where currently an estimated half of all
illegal aliens reside and 27 percent of the resident population was not
born in the U.S.?

California, while experiencing hundreds of thousands of new illegal
entries and a $70 billion annual budget deficit, just extended free
health care services to non-citizens who entered unlawfully. More than
half of the state’s births are already paid for through Med-Cal.
One-third of Americans living on assistance live in California. A fifth
of the population struggles below the poverty line while the state runs
up a $70 billion annual deficit with the nation’s highest income taxes
and gas taxes and among the highest sales taxes.

No wonder over a quarter-million upper-middle-class taxpayers flee the
state each year, unable to endure a 13.3% non-deductible, top state
income tax rate on top of the 37% of their income that goes to the IRS.

No wonder there is a catastrophic current 25% drop in California income
tax revenues when a single 1% of households pays 50% of all state income taxes—and is stampeding out of state. Is Governor Newsom federalizing California, or spreading the idea that far too privileged Americans owe
the poor of the world massive subsidies as a reward for breaking their
laws in coming here?

Ending Deterrence?

There are many reasons why foreign thugs are testing the United
States—Putin in Ukraine, the Chinese with a spy balloon over our native
soil, Hamas by murdering Israelis, Iran’s satellites by rocketing our military installations and ships abroad.

No doubt our woke, manpower-short military that fled from Kabul, leaving
a multibillion-dollar trove of weapons, has lost the ability to deter opportunistic belligerents.

The Biden administration’s obsequious courting of Iran, contextualizing Chinese aggression, and announcing our reaction to a Russian invasion of Ukraine would hinge on whether it was “minor” have all eroded
deterrence. Now, in circular fashion, President Obrador no longer fears
any reaction to millions from his country swarming into the United
States, as he had in the past when Trump pressured him to control his
side of the border. That he helped to blow up the border with impunity
also, in turn, reminds aggressors abroad that a nation too afraid to
protect its own sovereignty can hardly defend that of its allies.

The DEI Narrative

We, the hosts, no longer believe in the melting pot. Instead, cultural
Marxists divide America into the automatically victimized, by nature of
their nonwhite status, versus the victimizers defined by whatever
“white” is conveniently classified at the moment.

Class, history, and individual merit matter not so much in this 24/7
effort to reduce everyone to either oppressed or oppressor.

Under this racist binary, 99 percent of illegal aliens—who will be
instantly categorized as the so-called nonwhite—will enter the U.S. with innate claims against the majority. Thus, they will become instantly
eligible for everything from affirmative action preferences in hiring
and admissions (the Supreme Court ruling will be a minor inconvenience
for the Left, in the manner of the easily ignored California Prop 209)
to race-based targeted equity programs and subsidies.

And the message we send to the illegal immigrant? Certainly not unity, integration, and assimilation. Instead, we emphasize ethnic, racial,
religious, and linguistic differences and fuel such divides. Such
separatism pays cultural, social, and economic dividends in such a way
that assimilation and integration earn rebuke, if not ridicule.

Cruel Irony?

The woke Left defines America as incurably racist. So how could the
nonwhite in the millions possibly flee their home countries, where they
compose a majority of the population, only to seek out the one country
in the world where they are told toxic “white privilege” is unsurpassed?

Did the millions swarming the Rio Grande not listen to the horror
stories of Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib? Do they not read the warnings of systemic this and that from Professor Kendi? Have they been briefed on
endemic something by Ta-Nehisi Coates? Are they unaware of the messaging
from BLM and Antifa? Were they not warned by President Obrador of the
Inferno waiting ahead to the north?

None of the millions apparently wished to be diverted to a quite diverse
India, or China, a land of mandated equity, or the inclusionary lands of
the homogenously Islamic Middle East.

If the amorality of illegal immigration were not so deleterious to
Americans, its absurdity would be laughable.


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You voted for student loan forgiveness. You got demographic replacement
and World War 3.

"Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to
enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and
abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits
bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States
in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3)."

“Western values mean three things: migration, LGBTQ, and war." Viktor Orban

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