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Victor Davis Hanson: The Absurd Democrat Border Con
American Greatness ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/08/2024 4:16:47 AM PST by MtnClimber

It remains unclear why Biden and Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas destroyed what Trump had achieved. Why would they ensure such misery for both Americans and millions of illegal migrants?

In 2021, Joe Biden opened wide an inherited, secure southern border that had finally stopped mass illegal immigration.

When he overturned Donald Trump’s efforts, a planned flood of over 8 million illegal immigrants entered the U.S.

Almost all arrived without background checks, health screening, or vaccination certificates—but with massive needs for free housing, education, healthcare, and food entitlements and subsidies.

For four years, Donald Trump battled the courts, his Democratic opposition, and the open-border establishments within his own party to ensure legal-only immigration. Somehow, he rebuilt some of the old porous border fence. He had begun to build his long-promised new wall to the Gulf of Mexico. He had ended Obama-era catch-and-release.

Would-be refugees had to apply for asylum in their home country. Trump leveraged Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to police his own border and stop cynically transiting millions of illegal aliens into the U.S.

There was general Democratic Party opposition to all of Trump’s measures, both through Congress and via the courts.

For the last three years of Biden’s mass influx, the left has applauded open borders. That is, until late last year, when overwhelmed southern border state governors began busing and flying illegal immigrants en masse to northern sanctuary-city jurisdictions.

For years, these sanctuary zones had preened their liberality about open borders. They smeared as “racists” and “xenophobes” any who insisted on legal-only immigration.

But now they were subject to the real-life ramifications of their own destructive ideologies.

Major blue-state cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., became outraged that they were inundated with tens of thousands of immigrants, all without legality...

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1 posted on 02/08/2024 4:16:47 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Is this just the globalist destruction of all norms of society for both citizens and illegal immigrants?


2 posted on 02/08/2024 4:16:59 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 02/08/2024 4:18:04 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Did they want new long-term constituents, given that their neo-socialist agendas cannot win over a majority of current Americans?

Is importing millions of the poorest and most in need on the planet a way to ensure a still larger Great Society of entitlements and, with it, higher taxes on the “filthy rich?”

Do they assume that America’s increasingly non-Election-Day balloting ensures far less authentication and rejection of mail-in ballots, and thus it will be relatively easy for non-citizens to vote?

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4 posted on 02/08/2024 4:20:46 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber
...It remains unclear why Biden and Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas destroyed what Trump had achieved...
5 posted on 02/08/2024 4:22:03 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: MtnClimber
Biden's just the whore.
Barry O'bozo is the pimp and he is "getting even" with "Whitey" by colonizing America.
6 posted on 02/08/2024 4:23:23 AM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: texas booster

“Did they want new long-term constituents, given that their neo-socialist agendas cannot win over a majority of current Americans?”
- in a word: YES

“Is importing millions of the poorest and most in need on the planet a way to ensure a still larger Great Society of entitlements and, with it, higher taxes on the “filthy rich?”
- Yes to the first part
- No to higher taxes on filthy rich who will have ‘tax exceptions’ available.

“Do they assume that America’s increasingly non-Election-Day balloting ensures far less authentication and rejection of mail-in ballots, and thus it will be relatively easy for non-citizens to vote?”
- Yes


7 posted on 02/08/2024 4:25:56 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: All
Cop beaters already in America thanks to Democrats.


8 posted on 02/08/2024 4:28:46 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
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To: MtnClimber

“It remains unclear why Biden and Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas destroyed what Trump had achieved. Why would they ensure such misery for both Americans and millions of illegal migrants?”

Wrong. It is crystal clear.

Biden hates the electorate he has, and is replacing it with guaranteed welfare voters for permanent onebbn party rule.

He’s killing democracy on purpose.


9 posted on 02/08/2024 4:33:01 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: MtnClimber

Marxism imbues a paranoia in the powerful class that they will eventually be overtaken by the underclass through an inevitable revolution.

The USSR dealt with this paranoia by sending dissenters to the gulags, and eliminating underclass leaders through dekulakization.

Modern globalists are dealing with this paranoia by deplatforming dissenters, and importing a leaderless underclass into developed societies.


10 posted on 02/08/2024 4:36:24 AM PST by cockroach_magoo (cockroach_magoo did not formally deprogram himself.)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s just absurd that they’re trying to blame this on Trump, but lots of people will believe the lies Biden is telling.


11 posted on 02/08/2024 4:39:49 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: MtnClimber

This is the money quote at the end of the commentary. The uniqueness of Trump.

“Finally, one might expect this artifice from the left that is wedded to open borders.
But why some establishment Republicans aided and abetted these disingenuous efforts is yet another reminder why the doctrinaire Republican Party had to be reinvented by Donald Trump.”


12 posted on 02/08/2024 4:40:28 AM PST by chuckee
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To: MtnClimber

The Blue-State cities are NOT outraged. This flood is fixing demographics for the Dems. The peons can eat a carp-sandwich, as far as Dems are concerned.


13 posted on 02/08/2024 4:40:29 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

If only there were a way to actually run two different Americas at the same time. Then we could afford to sit back & watch Biden’s America self-destruct.


14 posted on 02/08/2024 4:40:43 AM PST by oldtech
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To: cockroach_magoo

I think you are right about why they do what they do.


15 posted on 02/08/2024 4:40:48 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Enemies domestic simpatico with INVADERRS foreign.


16 posted on 02/08/2024 4:41:36 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Has anyone else noticed that the YouTube algorithm seems to be increasing leftist propaganda lately rather than catering to interests as detected by YouTube? Instead of a lot of conservative blogs that I was previously receiving I’m seeing more anti Trump garbage. Is it because of the election? I am reluctant even to browse YouTube any longer. Or is it just me?


17 posted on 02/08/2024 4:43:20 AM PST by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: MtnClimber

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18 posted on 02/08/2024 4:44:29 AM PST by gattaca (Once a nation loses control of its borders, it is no longer a nation...Ronald Reagan)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Biden hates the electorate he has, and is replacing it with guaranteed welfare voters for permanent onebbn party rule.

Yup, or to paraphrase the movie version of Edward the Longshanks, “The problem with America, is that it is full of Americans.”

19 posted on 02/08/2024 4:59:58 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
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To: Falcon4.0

Major investigation needed going back years of all these traitors and thier cohorts but who will do it? the justice system is compromised as well


20 posted on 02/08/2024 5:07:53 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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