Americans are justifiably enraged by the dangerous invasion of our country by millions of illegal aliens — including murderers, rapists, and gang members — due to the negligence and incompetence of President Joe Biden and his administration.
Biden is traveling to Texas on Thursday to stage a photo op to show his supposed concern about the open borders and record high illegal immigration he is responsible for inflicting on the American people. The fact that it is his policies that have created this mess seems to not bother him.
His real concern is with polls showing that Americans realize what a failure and fraud he has been on this issue. Once it was announced former President Donald Trump was traveling to Texas also on Thursday to call attention to the mess on the border, even Biden was alert enough to figure he needed to head there as well. That alone tells us how desperate Biden and the Democrats have become in general, and on this issue.
After strolling along, hand-in-hand, with the extremist policies of far-left Democrats and their determination to erase our southern border, Biden has suddenly realized that he’s under water with most voters and is desperate to at least appear as thought he cares and wants to fix the problem.
A Monmouth University poll released Monday found that 61% of Americans consider illegal immigration a very serious problem and 23% consider it a somewhat serious problem — more than during the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Trump. The same poll showed that a record high 53% of Americans support building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border — a project Trump began as president.
Moreover, a Gallup poll released Tuesday found that Immigration “Surges to Top of Most Important Problem List; First time immigration has been the single most important problem since 2019.” Yes, that is a headline that likely has contributed to Biden’s handlers pulling him out of the basement.
Most importantly for Trump, an NBC News poll released in early February found that 57% of Americans believe he would do a better job than Biden “securing the border and controlling immigration.” The poll found that only 22% of Americans said Biden would do a better job.
One reason contributing to Trump’s victories in every Republican presidential primary and caucus held so far this year is his effectiveness in securing our border when he was president, along with his pledge to do even more to combat the catastrophe we’re experiencing if he is elected president again. This will also be important in helping Trump to send Biden into a long-overdue retirement.
The flood of illegal immigrants crossing our borders is appalling and frightening, and is changing the character of our nation.
In just the 2023 fiscal year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered an astounding 3.2 million illegal aliens crossing into the U.S. — more than any year in American history and more than all four years of the Trump administration combined. An unknown number of additional illegal immigrants crossed the border last year without being encountered by law enforcement officers.
Because the federal government has too few immigration judges and lacks the space to house all illegal immigrants, the vast majority are released into the U.S. and told to appear for an asylum hearing, sometimes several years into the future. Not all show up. Some commit violent crimes.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports that in the 2023 fiscal year it “arrested 73,822 noncitizens with criminal histories; this group had 290,178 associated charges and convictions with an average of four per individual. These included 33,209 assaults; 4,390 sex and sexual assaults; 7,520 weapons offenses; 1,713 charges or convictions for homicide; and 1,655 kidnapping offenses.” Welcome to America!
It would take a book to list all these crimes. But to cite just two that drew widespread national news coverage:
- Augusta (Georgia) University nursing student Laken Riley, 22, was attacked and killed last week on her morning run by someone who crushed her skull, police said. Jose Ibarra, 27, who illegally entered the U.S. in 2022 from Venezuela but was released due to lack of detention space, was charged with murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping and other crimes.
- A 2-year-old Maryland boy and his mother got caught in the crossfire of two gangs. Little Jeremy Poou-Caceres was killed and his 17-year-old mother was injured. The New York Post reports, “Nilson Granados-Trejo, 25, [an illegal immigrant from El Salvador] was charged Monday with first- and second-degree murder, the fifth suspect busted for the Feb. 8 shooting… Granados-Trejo was previously twice arrested on theft charges and had been ordered to be removed from the US by an immigration judge in New Jersey — but was repeatedly released from custody despite three immigration detainers.” And yet his public defender still argued that this maniac should be granted pre-trial release.
Trump has said he will institute a series of strong and effective policies to defend our national security against the illegal immigrant invasion if he becomes president again. These policies reflect the president’s duty to defend the sovereignty of our nation and the security and safety of our people. They will include, among a number of new and reimplemented policies and plans using the military and local law enforcement to round up and deport millions of illegal aliens in the largest such operation in American history, and finishing the wall.
Neither Laken nor Jeremy should be dead. Nor should the thousands of others whose lives have been taken or forever changed because of crimes committed by people who are here illegally and courtesy of the malignant and catastrophic policies of Biden and the Democrats.