What’s behind Biden’s Open Border policy?

I hate to say it, and I have long resisted saying it, but facts don’t lie and I have to conclude that the explosion of illegal and faux migrants pouring across our southern border is the deliberate, political policy of President Joe Biden.

Caught, and ready for release, at southern border (Photo: ABC News)
I find only two explanations for his Open Border policy.

1- It is self-destructive sympathy for poor people who want a better life, but who just won’t take a number and wait their turn to arrive legally as millions and millions have done for more than 100 years.

2- It is a deliberate policy to “brown” America, as progressives gleefully call it, and, in the next decade or two, create a super majority of Democrats. To wish for a “brown” America is philosophically as racist as hoping for a “white” America. This is an expression of Woke “blame whitey” culture.

Let’s take a look at No. 2, which is a long-held talking point on the Right.

It has gained traction only now, under the Biden presidency, because under the last Democratic President, Barack Obama, the “encounters” at the border fell dramatically as deportations skyrocketed.

So this is a Biden problem, because in a fit of virtue signaling, almost his first act as President was to reverse the successful border control policies of Donald J. Trump and Obama.. It was a blind act of political revenge, and a desire to undo almost everything his predecessor had done, just as Trump tried to do with most of what Obama accomplished.

This is not how a democracy should work, but it becomes almost inevitable with a country that is pretty much split down the middle between Right and Left.

The civil war has arrived, and while the fireworks were prepared before him, Trump lit the fuse of primarily white grievance in this country.  I say “primarily” because he has attracted growing numbers of Hispanics and Black African-American males, who seem to be taking up his dare of, “What do you have to lose?”

There has been a shift in what is happening on the southern border in the two decades I have been writing about illegal immigration.

Back then, it was largely from Mexico, and it was all people sneaking across the border,  and then melting into the interior, to “live in the shadows,” as the cliche goes. Along with the border jumpers, there was the large number of people who arrived legally, but overstayed their visas.

It is different today. Customs and Border Patrol counts people from 160 countries coming across the border, and for the first time arrivals from South America (thanks to turmoil in Venezuela) outnumber those from Central America.

It is different, too, in that majority don’t sneak across the border, the so-called getaways, which number an estimated 1.6 million since Biden took office.

That is in addition to the 2 million who “surrendered” to fraudulently claim asylum.

These people are processed and admitted to the U.S. This is the so-called “catch and release” policy. This is Open Borders.

I say “fraudulent” because they, and their cartel handlers, know the law better than you and are taking advantage of a loophole that says anyone claiming asylum is entitled to a hearing before a judge. The system is so overwhelmed that they may not get a hearing for five years.

 There are five basic categories of asylum, all based on a well-grounded fear of personal persecution. Crime, climate change, and poverty are not among them. The migrants know this, but come anyway figuring they will not get deported.

Under Trump, they had to wait in Mexico.

Under Biden, they get to wait in Michigan, or anywhere else they want to go, transported at government — taxpayer — expense. 

The vast majority of the flood that is set to “destroy” New York City, according to Mayor Eric Adams, was sent by the federal government, not by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. He sent only a few thousands of the 60,000 being housed, clothed, and fed by New York City, thanks to its ill-advised and virtue-signalling Sanctuary City status.

It recalls a statement of Colin Powell, regarding the invasion of Iraq: “You break it, you own it.” 

NYC broke immigration law and now owns the migrants.

Adams wants to stick this all on Biden, who deserves a big share of the blame, but Biden wouldn’t have sent immigrants to Gotham if it were not a “sanctuary.”

Just the other day Biden gave the green light for almost half a million Venezuelans to get work permits. Without doubt, that will be a magnet for more Venezuelans to arrive.

“Why not give them a work permit?” some ask. Without it, they will be wards of the state.

That is correct, but the work permit is the wrong solution.

The right solution is to not welcome them in the first place. Let them apply for asylum from their home country, or the first safe country they encounter. The right solution, for the U.S., is to make them wait for their hearing elsewhere. That alone will end the flood.

Instead, we have that certifiable idiot DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas insisting the border is “closed,” while Biden keeps pouring gasoline on the fire.

He is keeping it up even as 55% of Americans want him to make it harder for people with questionable status to cross. He must be figuring he’ll take the short-term hit in exchange for the longer political gain. I am surprised that only 55% of Americans feel there is a big problem. Most of the rest of them are the under-informed Americans who don’t ever watch newscasts or read newspapers.

America admits about a million legal immigrants each year. They are all vetted.

Biden is admitting twice that number each year, and none are vetted. 

Not for disease, not for radical beliefs, nothing.

That’s something you should be losing sleep over.

But not Biden. He lives in a secure environment and won’t be in danger because of his Open Borders.