Posted on 01/05/2021 11:27:31 AM PST by karpov
President-elect Joe Biden sparked outrage among activists when, a month before Inauguration Day, he retreated from his promise to unravel President Trump’s restrictive immigration regime on Day One. Instead, he suggested, the Biden administration would undo Trump’s actions over a period of months, thus avoiding a rush of “2 million people on our border” and the ensuing chaos in the opening days of his presidency.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics show that apprehensions at the southern border were at an eight-year high in October and November; December data will likely reflect similar activity. A new wave of migrant caravans, including a group that launched an unsuccessful trek from Honduras, is of particular concern.
Biden is right to worry that undoing Trump’s aggressive enforcement regime would prompt a spike in illegal immigration, but his proposed solution—rolling back Trump’s regulations slowly—misses what would cause that rush in the first place. The problem with Biden’s immigration plan is not its speed of execution, but its lack of any principle that would limit immigration, illegal or otherwise. Instead, the Biden agenda will encourage illegal entry—an arrangement with potentially disastrous consequences.
Biden’s immigration platform reveals the emptiness of his policies. Inasmuch as immigration defined Trump’s 2016 campaign, Biden’s agenda is almost entirely reactive, promising to undo policies that eventually led Americans to call for more, rather than less, immigration.
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Nope...Not with our media. They will blame it on Trump’s policies
Cheatin’ China Joe will have to share the dishonor with Micro Rubio and Flimsey Grahamnesty who are promising amnesty to whoever can get here.
The flood of illegals will only be the tip of the crises under Biden.
It won’t ever be called be a “crisis.” Biden will have it all fixed within days.
Crisis? I think Joe and the dems will consider it a beautiful thing. It’s what Obama did.
CBP twitter has 452 miles constructed, last update Jan 5. I suspect this may be total from Friday Jan 1.
The Next Border Crisis Will Be Biden’s Because They All Cannot Cross At Once!
What crisis? He’ll just throw the door open and sing Born Free as the illegals pour into our country by the caravan.
If you just pretend that problems aren’t problems, you don’t need to worry about solutions.
Holiday slowdown over. If we can get back to 10 per week then 482 on Jan 20.
Yeah, it’s not a crisis, it’s their plan.
Are you kidding? If the media doesn't report it, then it never happened, and you'll play hell getting ANY acknowledgement of a crisis.
It won’t be a crisis - it’ll be how America is so “open” - if the media discuss it at all.
Wrong. Biden will never be President. Stop spreading despairium.
Worse to be Europe. Mexicans are relatively docile and good workers, though high % recipients of welfare. Central Americans another matter (MS-13, etc). But Europe’s illegals are the worst on the globe. African rapefugees and Muslims overruning the continent.
Bidens not President elect so cut the sh&&.
Either date, it's another Trump promise kept. The only reason why there were more apprehensions is because the Wall is funneling the illegals into easily patrolled locations. Plus, there are currently a couple hundred miles under construction, and another 150 or so of new contracts approved.
For those that think a Biden admin will tear it down, they are dreaming. Yes, he could open the points of entry and do away with Trumps agreement with Mexico to keep them in their country. Mexico may even reverse its decision to guard their southern border from the mass caravans.
That would not be a good thing, since Central America is already building caravans thinking Biden will open the gates. Still, the wall will stand unless Congress passes a law contrary to their original approval of a wall many years ago. It's not up to Biden to tear it down.
Mexico needs a Wall on their southern border.
No matter the reality, the media will blame it on Trump or Trump policies implemented to Biden changes.
I sure hope Biden somehow isn’t sworn in. On the other hand as corrupt as he is, Harris would be far more radical President.
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