WASHINGTON, DC, Feb 3 – Democrats seem to think they are running out of voters. They’ve been sending out for more of them since Joe Biden became president, and the deliveries have been plentiful, on time, and on schedule. After all, our southern borders are rife with a whole new electorate of would-be left-leaning constituents. And they are very willing, for the most part, to trade their ballots for new homes north of the border, notwithstanding the fact that they are illegals.
You may have thought that noncitizens could not vote in American elections. It is currently legal as long as it’s not a national or statewide vote. In fact, some 14 cities say it’s okay for noncitizens to vote in local elections, and some of them even allow illegal immigrants to vote. San Francisco is one of the first cities to allow noncitizens to cast ballots in local elections, including those living in town who are illegal. New York City recently announced that it will follow suit starting in 2023.
San Francisco began letting foreigners vote in its city in 2018, and Cal Thomas expressed his doubts about it in one of his syndicated columns at the time. He wrote: “Who doubts this is the first step by the left and Democrats toward full voting rights in state and eventually in federal elections? The claim by lawyers will be that it is discriminatory to allow undocumented immigrants to vote in local and state elections and not for members of Congress and for the president. At bottom this is what the entire immigration debate is about.”
Thomas is right. First, there were noncitizens voting, then those who are in the country illegally get to vote. It is, indeed, a very slippery slope.
But there’s another sneaky way for Mr. Biden and his Democratic Party to create a road to permanent governance in America, and Thomas Homan, former acting director of ICE under President Donald Trump, revealed it at a meeting in Pennsylvania recently. Holman, who has served under six presidents, told that gathering that “President Biden is the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and intentionally unsecured the border.”
There was not a lot of coverage of that meeting in the mainstream media, but The Epoch Times reported on Homan’s remarks, including a warning that illegal immigration is not a border problem. He says it is a problem for all of America “because 97 percent of people who cross the southwest border don’t stay in Arizona and Texas—they go all throughout the country.”
And here’s the rub: the Census Bureau counts the total numbers of people in cities and states, whether they are citizens or noncitizens. The bigger the numbers, the more votes they get, and that, in turn, increases or decreases political power. For example, the headcount in 2020 saw Texas, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon each gain votes in Congress and the Electoral College for the ensuing decade, according to the Bureau. And, as Homan put it, “Biden overturned Trump’s objection to counting illegal immigrants in the census. Millions of new people will be counted in the next census in sanctuary cities, which will result in more seats in the House for the Democrats, which leaves your electoral college in their perpetual power. There’s no other reason. … This is about political power in the future.”
In a separate interview with The Epoch Times, Congressman Tom Tiffany said that President Biden adopted a “catch and release” protocol when it comes to illegal immigrants entering the U.S. at our southern borders. “Under ‘catch and release,’ people are just able to come into the country, and then they can go wherever they want to.” The authorities tell them they need to show up for asylum hearings, but there is no enforcement, and they seldom show up, Tiffany pointed out. Yet, they are counted in the Census, and that alone is all Mr. Biden’s party needs going forward to strengthen its power.
A number of reliable news outlets have confirmed that Mr. Biden has ordered the Border Patrol to stop sending illegals to where they came from. Instead, the president has blatantly ordered the Patrol to simply release them. His “catch and release” approach has created dissension among the rank and file.
For example, Townhall’s Katie Pavlich tells us that “Fox News reporter Bill Melugin caught the Biden Administration in the act of releasing thousands of single adult males into the United States, giving them bus and plane tickets to their desired destinations. Many of them have criminal records.” Pavlich quoted Melugin’s report that “Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations have been turned into an ‘unofficial travel coordination agency,’ and agents are made to coordinate travel for some illegal immigrants with criminal records, an ICE source told Fox News.”
Meanwhile, Newsmax says Mr. Biden’s Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz and his Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas were caught on tape in Laredo, TX trying to convince their reluctant agents to go along with the new policy.
Ortiz was telling his agents: “We don’t give up. We stay focused. We continue to do the job and the mission that we signed up for. We all signed up for it. We all raised our hand.” His remarks brought one agent to say, “ to defend the Constitution, not the agency.” Another pointed out that agents are not supposed to be “releasing criminal aliens into this country.” And yet another railed against the notion that agents are being told “to do nothing” to stop illegal migrants from entering the country, noting that “for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
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