In one of his first acts in office, President Joe Biden halted construction of the wall along the southern border. In the months since, over 7 million foreign nationals have stolen into the United States, incentivized further by Democratic sanctuary policies, open-borders rhetoric, and discussions of rewards for those who have already flouted immigration laws.
The majority of illegal aliens rely on taxpayer-funded welfare, with every million parolees siphoning $3 billion in federal welfare benefits. The estimated annual cost to house known gotaways and illegal aliens released into the country under Biden's watch is $451 billion. Multitudes of foreign nationals are tracking in diseases once thought eradicated or controlled in the U.S. along with violent crime, including of the kind that claimed Laken Riley's life last week.
Americans are apparently fed up — including a fair share of Democrats.
The latest Monmouth University poll revealed Monday that public concern over illegal immigration has skyrocketed during the Biden administration's mismanagement of the border crisis. Over 8 in 10 Americans recognize illegal immigration to be either a very serious (61%) or a somewhat serious (23%) problem.
Broken down by political affiliation, 66% of Republicans, 42% of independents, and 33% of Democrats told pollsters in 2015 that illegal immigration was a very serious problem. Nine years later, those figures jumped to 91%, 58%, and 41%, respectively.
"Illegal immigration has taken center stage as a defining issue this presidential election year," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. "Other Monmouth polling found this to be Biden's weakest policy area, including among his fellow Democrats."
For the first time since Monmouth pollsters started asking the question nationally in 2015, the majority of Americans (53%) now support the construction of a border wall, while 46% signaled continued opposition to securing the border with such a barrier.
When the question was first posed in September 2015, 48% of respondents signaled support for the wall. During the Trump administration, support for the wall reached 44% at its highest and fell to 35% at its lowest.
In 2015, support for the wall among Republicans stood at 73%. It has since increased to 86%. There has also been a spike in support among independents, from 47% to 58% over the past nine years.
While there has been an overall increase in concern over the border among Democrats, their support for a border wall has actually slipped from 31% to 17%.
Support for keeping those foreign nationals claiming asylum in Mexico has increased among all partisan groups since 2019. Now, 61% of Americans think they should wait to be processed on the other side of the border. This desire for remote processing may have been driven by increased concerns about criminality.
Roughly one in three (32%) Americans reckon illegal aliens to be more likely to commit violent crimes like rape or murder. This represents a 11-point increase over the 2019 poll and a 15-point jump over the response in 2015.
In their latest attempts to displace blame over the border crisis, Democrats have suggested that Republicans threw away a winning remedy by opposing the so-called border bill. According to the Monmouth poll, Americans weren't convinced the bill would have done a great deal in the way of addressing the crisis.
47% of respondents said the border bill was "not tough enough when it comes to dealing with illegal immigration." 77% of Republicans and 48% of independents were in agreement.
"These results illustrate why the border deal was dead on arrival. The vast majority of rank-and-file Republicans and many independents believe it is too soft on illegal immigration, even if they don’t know exactly what's in the legislation. Senate GOP leadership could have tried to sell the bill, but that would have almost certainly been fruitless once Donald Trump weighed in against it," said Murray.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 7,332,800 foreign nationals stole across the U.S. southern border illegally between the time Biden took office and last month.
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In a shocking twist, President Biden suddenly cares about the invasion at the border.
After years of denying a border crisis, the president has promised to “shut down the border right now” if given new emergency powers in a bill passed by Congress.
However, Glenn Beck isn’t so sure new emergency powers are what Biden needs — nor does he believe the President is actually concerned for the people immigration is affecting the most.
“I just don’t think that we need any of those special emergency powers,” Glenn says, noting that NBC compared the emergency powers to those introduced during COVID.
In Biden’s hands, those new emergency powers could do more harm than good, especially as he’s doing whatever he can to punish those who have been fighting for the border to close all along: Texans.
The state has refused to back down and hand over control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, to federal authorities. Over 20 other states have shown support for Texas as its citizens fight to stop the invasion.
However, on Friday, Biden then banned all new liquid natural gas export approvals, which will greatly hurt Texas’ economy.
“I want to make things better for the people in Texas, that’s why I’m going to shut down 30% of all of America’s supply just coming out of Texas,” Glenn mocks.
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Our southern border has been open to the extent that the Texas National Guard is trying to close and lock gates — while Biden’s Border Patrol has kept opening them back up.
“I would say that that’s in complete contrary to what their freaking job is actually supposed to be, which is border protection,” Sara Gonzales says.
However, the Department of Homeland Security has since done a one-eighty and completely changed its tune. This week, the DHS released a memo explaining there is an immediate need for a border wall.
Biden disagrees and has voiced his frustration at Congress for shutting down his proposal to redirect money appropriated for the border wall.
AOC has also weighed in, releasing a statement that calls for the president to take responsibility for this decision to build a border wall and reverse course.
“A wall does nothing to deter people who are fleeing poverty and violence from coming to the United States. You do not risk your life or your children’s lives going through the Darien Gap or traversing hundreds of miles of desert if you have any other options,” AOC wrote in her statement.
“Walls only serve to push migrants into more remote areas, increasing their chances of death. It is a cruel policy,” she continued.
“I don’t mean to sound cold-hearted, but I feel like I’m a realist here,” Gonzales responds.
“This is our country. Borders are supposed to be sovereign for a reason.”
Eric July sees the current situation as a bit of a “white pill.”
He notes that in places like Chicago, the black community is coming together in support of a border wall after migrants continue to be shipped into their city.
“I think in the future, like I mean the very near future, that may be one of those issues that breaks that party,” he says.
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Title 42 has been used to manage and deter illegal border crossings during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its termination will mark a major policy shift.
The emergency immigration restriction will be lifted on May 11 as the national COVID-19 public health emergency expires.
Its pending termination has left many wondering what this means for our border security — and what the Biden administration is planning in order to prepare.
According to Pat Gray, it’s expected that there will be “750,000 to 1,000,000 border crossings all at once,” and “supposedly, the cartels are arranging” this in order to “overwhelm the system.”
So, what is the Biden administration planning to do about it?
Apparently, the administration is sending 1,500 troops to the border — unarmed.
Gray jokes that this basically only ensures they can “watch the illegals come across the border.”
“I mean, we’re just completely unprepared for that kind of invasion,” he continues.
Gray plays footage of what looks to be thousands of illegals currently camped out in El Paso, Texas — which is happening before Title 42 has even expired.
“If that’s not an invasion, I don’t know what is,” he comments.
“We don’t know who you are, where you’re going. You don’t have any means of support. You don’t have a job,” he continues, adding that this makes us “responsible” for the illegals as they come to America.
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The implications are not just limited to espionage but extend to the potential for creating societal disruptions and furthering the CCP’s global influence campaign in America.
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