Don Surber on Illegal Immigration Reform

For John, BLUF:  This is a different person's take on illegal immigration and the Biden Administration sham effort at reform.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Turning the border against Trump

Here is the sub-headline:

Democrats and RINOs desperately try to wipe the open borders off their shoes

From Don Surber Substack, by Reporter Don Surber, 30 January 2024.

Here is the lede plus six:

If President Trump wins in November, he can thank Texas Governor Greg Abbott for the win.  No one has done more to change public opinion about Biden’s Open Borders policy than Abbott.  He shipped the invaders to sanctuary cities and lo and behold, black voters suddenly rose against Democrats who bent over backward for the illegal aliens.

In November, the Wall Street Journal reported, “By championing legal and illegal immigrants and largely ignoring border security, the Democrat Party has alienated key voting groups—including Hispanics.”

Hispanics?  It us worse than that because the invasion of illegal aliens puts the black vote in jeopardy for Democrats.  Black voters provide one out of four Democrat votes.

The New York Times chimed in, “Black voters are more disconnected from the Democrat Party than they have been in decades, frustrated with what many see as inaction on their political priorities and unhappy with President Biden, a candidate they helped lift to the White House just three years ago.

“New polls by The New York Times and Siena College found that 22% of black voters in six of the most important battleground states said they would support former President Donald J. Trump in next year’s election, and 71% would back Mr. Biden.

“The drift in support is striking, given that Mr. Trump won just 8% of black voters nationally in 2020 and 6% in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center.  A Republican presidential candidate has not won more than 12% of the black vote in nearly half a century.”

The black vote is only part of the problem. Most Americans oppose Biden’s refusal to enforce immigration laws.

President Biden is in a bit of a bind.  He, along with a big chuck of his Party, want an open border.  Some see it as the "Die Lösung" policy.  However, a significant portion of the Party is opposed to free and open borders, and the resulting influx of peope (302,034 last month).♠  For President Biden, and his handlers, the question is how to appease both factions of the Party, without sending voters to the Republican side in November.

The solution, for the Democrats, seems to be to have Congress pass an immigration refor4m bill that appears to limit the number of illegal immigrants, but only slightly throttles the flow.  Under the bill, as Mr Don Surber points out, the President would be forced to act if the number of illegal immigrants exceeds 5,000 per day.  However, that is a large number.  Granted, in December the aversge was 9,743 per day, but still, 4,999 (under the limit) is 1,824,635.  That is 36,492 per state.♥

For President Trump to oppose the supposed compromise bill being drafted behind closed doors in Congress is not just smart politics.  It is smart policy.  The bill is a clock behind which the Biden Administration wishes to continue to conduct business almost s usual, while being able to say it has control of the Border Crisis.  I am with President Trump on this.♦

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  For some opposed it appears to be an issue of allocation of resources,  The illegal immigrants are not only consuming tax dollars, but are also overrunning physical facilities that take time to build, like schools and recreation centers.
♥  While Alaska, Hawaii and Rhode Island will receiver fewer illegal immigrants to settle, California and Texas, for example, will receive more.
♦  There is the issue of funding for Israel and Ukraine, which Republicans in the House have used as leverage to gain reform on the Southern Border.  This is not the reform they are looking for.  I would suggest they provide the funding for Israel and Ukraine and look to fix the border crisis in January of 2025, or before, if the opportunity presents itself for real reform, rather than sham reform.