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President Joe Biden and Democrats around the country may believe that ignoring, stretching, or abusing our immigration laws is the humanitarian and right thing to do. In the process, they have deliberately restarted a border crisis — and made it a national one. Over 3.8 million people have crossed the border since Joe Biden became president. We’ve seen the sheer overwhelming of border towns and cities such as Eagle Pass, Del Rio, and El Paso. We’ve seen the waves of humans crossing at Nogales and Lukeville in Arizona, then passing into Yuma.
The problem doesn’t stay at the border. The tent cities in Los Angeles and in nearly every Californian city are partly a product of this systematic and willful neglect. So too are the overwhelmed hotels of Manhattan, crammed at taxpayer expense with migrants from all over the world. New York mayor Eric Adams said that at the current rate, illegal migration would “destroy” New York City. Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to ship migrants out of his city and into the suburbs.
National Review has been the go-to source for coverage of the border disaster from the start. To continue this coverage — and to hold the Biden administration accountable for its willful neglect — we need your support. And we are asking if you will consider a donation as part of our webathon.
We correctly predicted that Biden would create a crisis at the border. We have covered the breakdown in border policy, from the Biden administration’s reopening the loopholes that the Trump administration closed, to its cutting back pandemic-era measures that had put some muscle into America’s border enforcement. We have explained the legal tricks that the Biden administration uses to grant illegal migrants a new “legal” status in the country. We’ve reported relentlessly on the backdoor amnesties that the Biden administration offers, which predictably incentivize illegal immigrants to make the crossing.
National Review has also been the leader in showing that the motivation for this policy is driven by a fanatical left-wing ideology that views immigration as some sort of comeuppance for white America or a cure for white supremacy. Meanwhile, in practical effect, Biden’s policies and rhetoric create and spread crime, disorder, misery, and death. The primary victims tend to be the migrants themselves.
We’ve covered how the child migrant crisis predictably led to the systematic breaking of America’s child-labor laws. We’ve covered how illegal migrants become prey for human and drug traffickers. And the dangers of embarking on the journey itself, whether by trying to cross the nearly impassable Darien Gap, or by simply relying on the emerging networks of traffickers. Last week, a bus carrying Venezuelans crashed in Mexico, killing nearly 20. In March, a fire at a detention facility in Mexico killed 29. Last year, an abandoned truck in San Antonio turned out to be a mass grave containing 53 dead migrants, including three children.
The Biden administration has made border enforcement into a sick joke. Biden has issued orders and policies that have swamped not just border towns but America’s great cities. He has cheapened the currency of American citizenship, expanded the gray zone of illegality in America by waving in hundreds of thousands with no stable or just claim to legal status, and held out the promise of legal status, or legal neglect, in a way that has induced the huddled masses to take their lives in their hands and deliver them to human and drug traffickers.
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