{"id":2143091,"date":"2024-01-08T07:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-cant-admit-the-border-crisis-is-spiraling-out-of-control\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T07:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T12:10:36","slug":"democrats-cant-admit-the-border-crisis-is-spiraling-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-cant-admit-the-border-crisis-is-spiraling-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats refuse to acknowledge the escalating border crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-cant-admit-the-border-crisis-is-spiraling-out-of-control%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2143091&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Border Crisis: \u2064A Challenge or Catastrophe?<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s \u200dbeen a lot\u200b of nonsense about the southern\u200c border going around\u200b lately from\u200b the usual suspects,\u200c starting with the Biden \u200badministration\u2019s smug Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. In two separate interviews \u2064last\u2063 week, Mayorkas blamed the record number of illegal immigrants crossing into the country on climate \u2063change and later \u200brefused to call the situation\u2064 a crisis, retreating to his favorite euphemism for the debacle at the\u2064 border: \u201cIt\u2019s a challenge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It sure is, not least because in December more than 300,000 illegal\u200c immigrants \u2062were arrested at the border, the largest monthly total \u2064ever recorded. The numbers\u2063 being what \u200bthey are, it\u2019s getting difficult to characterize what\u2019s \u2062happened to our border under Biden. One \u2064way to put it is to note\u200d that at the current rate, we\u2062 can\u2064 expect 12 million arrests at the border in \u2062the \u200bfirst\u2062 term of the Biden presidency, which is more than the preceding three terms combined.\u200c Most of those migrants have been\u2062 released into \u2062the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1477880216\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-08ef7ad91aa06c736f96fb9325739821 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-08ef7ad91aa06c736f96fb9325739821\"><\/div>\n<p>Or \u200bthink of\u200b the problem from a different angle. Only 142,580 illegal immigrants were deported in all of \u200d2023, which is less than half the number that illegally crossed the border \u2062in December alone. Those who\u200d were released into the country joined the more than 3\u200b million-case backlog in our immigration courts, where it can take years for an asylum case to get an\u2064 initial hearing.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, it\u2019s a \u201cchallenge,\u201d\u2062 as Mayorkas says, but probably\u200b not \u200bas\u200c much of a challenge as\u200d maintaining the cognitive dissonance required to keep going on national television \u2064to spout this gibberish. Yet Mayorkas keeps pulling it off somehow, so credit where credit \u2064is due. His approach seems a lot more difficult than just coming \u200dout and admitting openly what Democrats really want with all \u2064this border chaos: to turn millions \u2064of illegal immigrants into Democrat voters. To \u201cfix\u201d the border problem, said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a\u200d recent interview,\u200d we simply have to \u201cdocument the\u2062 undocumented people.\u201d In case it isn\u2019t bone-crushingly\u200d obvious, that\u2019s leftist doublespeak for \u2063mass amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>Both Mayorkas and AOC\u200d at least have the excuse of being partisan ideologues. One wonders, however, what possible excuse a\u200c person like\u2062 Marc\u200c Thiessen could \u200bhave for trotting out one of the most embarrassingly na\u00efve arguments\u2062 tacitly endorsing illegal immigration ever \u2062to \u200dappear in corporate media.<\/p>\n<p>In his Washington Post \u200ccolumn last week, Thiessen suggested that the record number of\u200b illegal\u200c immigrants now pouring over our southern border are coming for the same\u2064 reason \u200cthe Puritans came to America in the 17th century: They\u2019re simply \u201cseeking a better life than what\u200d they faced in the place\u200b of their \u2064birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-47cb105dd43aac80a695fff2f27b81e0 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-47cb105dd43aac80a695fff2f27b81e0\"><\/div>\n<p>It might\u200d surprise \u2064Thiessen to learn\u200c that\u200d the \u2064Puritans came\u2062 not \u2063for economic reasons but religious ones, \u200bnot to \u200cupgrade their lifestyle and become First World consumers but to hack out an existence in the wilderness \u200cand build\u2063 a society they thought would be \u2064pleasing to God.<\/p>\n<p>But give Thiessen this at least, no doubt\u200b the masses\u200b of illegal immigrants crossing the border are seeking a better life. The latest caravan\u200c to set \u200dout for the \u2062U.S. border from southern \u2064Mexico, some 15,000 strong, has dubbed\u200d itself the \u201cpoverty exodus,\u201d which has the virtue of being direct. \u200bThese are, by their own admission, economic migrants, and as such do not qualify for\u2063 asylum under U.S. law \u2014 in contrast to the Puritans, it should be noted, who\u2062 were a persecuted religious minority\u200b and surely would have\u2064 met \u200cthe standard for asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Not to belabor the \u200dpoint, \u200bbut Thiessen\u2019s column was predicated \u200don an \u2063intentional misreading of something\u200c former\u2063 President Donald Trump has said, that illegal immigration is \u201cpoisoning the blood \u2063of our country.\u201d In \u2064context, \u200bTrump seems pretty obviously to be \u200dreferring \u2063to \u2062the\u2064 attendant \u200dproblems that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-sheriffs-call-on-biden-to-finish-trumps-border-wall-stop-gangs-guns-dangerous-drugs-entering-u-s\/\" title=\"Hundreds Of Sheriffs Call On Biden To Finish Trump\u2019s Border Wall, Stop \u2018Gangs, Guns, Dangerous Drugs\u2019 Entering U.S.\">mass illegal immigration<\/a> brings, like\u2063 fentanyl overdoses and cartel-backed criminal\u200b activity. Thiessen,\u200c however, blithely asserts \u2063that Trump has \u200bsomething in mind like European blood-and-soil nationalism, as if\u2064 illegal\u200b immigrants \u2063are\u200c corrupting the pure bloodlines of \u201ctrue\u201d Americans.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s\u2063 a strawman of course, and Thiessen \u2064absolutely\u200b slashes it to the ground in blow after tedious blow. That he would bother with such \u2062a chore at all suggests the Washington establishment, of which he is a part and \u200cserves as a mouthpiece, is\u200c aware, on \u200dsome level,\u200b that the ongoing collapse of \u2063the border is not going over very well with the American people. They must therefore \u200dbe reminded \u2062that immigration is good, that it makes America (or some part of America) wealthy, and that only bigots like Trump oppose immigration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c477ea1e9018cc6b1e0d29ed5862169e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c477ea1e9018cc6b1e0d29ed5862169e\"><\/div>\n<p>As we move into the 2024 election cycle,\u2064 expect the cognitive dissonance about the border\u2062 crisis to become overwhelming \u200cand unbelievable. The reason \u2064is simple, if terrifying:\u2062 The establishment, from Mayorkas to the \u2063Reaganite hacks at The Washington Post, cannot afford to admit that what\u2019s happening at the border might actually be a crisis, a catastrophe even, that\u2019s now begun to spiral\u200c out of control.<\/p>\n<p>They were the\u200b authors of it and authored it for their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlson-everything-tulsi-gabbard-said-about-biolabs-in-ukraine-is-true\/\" title=\"Tucker Carlson: Everything Tulsi Gabbard Said About Biolabs in Ukraine Is True\">domestic political purposes<\/a> and designs. But what\u200b they didn\u2019t count on was\u2062 the thing taking on a life of its \u200down, propelled into something\u2064 else\u200d entirely by the cartels and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-meets-virtually-with-mexican-leader-on-immigration-ccp-virus-climate-issues\/\" title=\"Biden Meets Virtually With Mexican Leader on Immigration, CCP Virus, Climate Issues\">criminal smuggling networks<\/a> that have figured out how \u2064to turn Democrat border policies into a\u200d major international black market. What we\u200b have on our\u200b hands now is not merely \u2062the \u201ccatch-and-release\u201d policies of the Obama era.<\/p>\n<p>That \u2063all seems quaint compared to \u200cthe industrial-scale human smuggling and trafficking operations \u2062now underway from the Darien\u2063 Gap to the Rio Grande, orchestrated and engineered by some of the most sophisticated\u200b criminal organizations in the\u200b world. What began as a cynical\u200b Democrat scheme to draft \u200cmore voters into\u200b a \u2062crumbling political \u2064coalition has\u2064 turned\u200d into something much more sinister: entire\u2062 nations\u2064 and peoples on \u200dthe march,\u2063 a walking \u2064criminal empire, far outside the control of mealy-mouthed\u2064 bureaucrats like Mayorkas, much less an \u200dabsentee \u200cpresident like Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the \u200dgaslighting, at this point, isn\u2019t something Democrats\u200c think \u2063they need to do to calm voters.\u2064 Maybe it\u2019s\u2063 something they need to do to calm themselves.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b0df34c9219cf4758a4cfc1ce203b837 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b0df34c9219cf4758a4cfc1ce203b837\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does the border crisis, with its significant\u200b number of illegal immigrants\u200d being released into\u200d the United States and \u2064the\u2062 mounting backlog \u200cin immigration courts, affect the overall\u200b immigration system and its ability to handle \u200basylum cases?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2062Border \u2063Crisis: A \u200cChallenge or\u200d Catastrophe?<\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of discourse surrounding the situation at the southern\u200c border, with the Biden administration&#8217;s Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro\u2063 Mayorkas, downplaying the severity of the crisis. In recent interviews, Mayorkas attributed the record\u2064 number of illegal immigrants crossing\u2062 into the country to climate change \u2064and refused \u2063to acknowledge the situation as a \u200dcrisis, instead referring to it as a &#8220;challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The numbers speak for \u200cthemselves. In December alone, over 300,000 illegal immigrants were\u2062 arrested at the border, marking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/softballs-and-adoration-read-the-questions-reporters-have-asked-bidens-press-secretary\/\" title=\"Softballs And Adoration: Read The \u2018Questions\u2019 Reporters Have Asked Biden\u2019s Press Secretary\">highest monthly total<\/a> ever recorded. This raises the question of how we can\u2064 accurately describe the state of our border under the Biden \u200cadministration. \u2063Based\u2064 on current trends, experts estimate that we can expect 12 million border \u2063arrests\u2064 during Biden&#8217;s first term, surpassing the cumulative numbers of the preceding three terms\u200b combined.\u2062 Furthermore, a\u200d significant portion of these migrants has been released into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the deportation statistics, only 142,580 illegal immigrants were deported in the entirety of 2023, less than \u2064half the number \u2062that crossed the border \u200cillegally in December alone. Those who were\u200d released into the country have contributed to the more than 3 million-case backlog in our immigration courts, where it can take years for \u2063an asylum case to receive an \u200dinitial hearing.<\/p>\n<p>While Mayorkas refers to the \u200bsituation as a &#8220;challenge,&#8221; it seems to require a great deal of\u2064 mental gymnastics to maintain this narrative.\u200c Mayorkas&#8217; approach is far more complicated than simply\u2063 admitting what Democrats \u2063seem to desire\u200c with this border chaos \u2013 to turn millions\u2064 of illegal immigrants into Democrat voters. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez openly expressed \u200cthe\u200d need to &#8220;document the undocumented people&#8221; as a means of \u200cfixing the border problem, a clear euphemism for mass amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders what Marc Thiessen, a Washington \u200bPost columnist, was thinking when he made one of \u200cthe\u200d most naive arguments tacitly endorsing illegal immigration to\u200b appear in corporate media. In a recent column, Thiessen compared the current influx\u2062 of illegal immigrants to the Puritans&#8217; arrival in America in the 17th century, suggesting\u2063 that they also sought a better life. However, the Puritans came not for economic reasons\u2063 but\u200d for religious ones, seeking a place to practice\u200d their faith \u200bfreely.<\/p>\n<p>While it is true that the masses \u200bof\u200d illegal immigrants crossing the\u200b border are seeking a better life, they do not qualify for asylum under\u200c U.S. law unless they are \u200dfleeing persecution as a religious\u200b minority. Unlike the Puritans, they are primarily\u2063 economic migrants. As such, their motives for crossing the border \u2064do not align\u200c with the grounds for asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Thiessen&#8217;s argument is\u200c based on an intentional misinterpretation of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s statement that illegal immigration is &#8220;poisoning the blood of our country.&#8221; Trump&#8217;s\u200c remark referred to the accompanying issues brought about by mass illegal immigration, such as fentanyl overdoses and cartel-related criminal activities. Thiessen chooses to portray Trump&#8217;s words as a reference to \u200bEuropean blood-and-soil nationalism, which is a strawman argument.<\/p>\n<p>Thiessen goes on to debunk his own strawman argument,\u200c suggesting that the ongoing collapse of the border is not well-received by the American people. This raises \u2063the need to remind the public that immigration is beneficial and contributes to America&#8217;s prosperity. In\u2064 doing so, the Washington establishment, of which Thiessen is a part, attempts to discredit opposition \u2063to immigration as mere bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the situation at the southern border under the \u2063Biden administration is far from\u2064 a mere &#8220;challenge.&#8221; The record-breaking number of illegal immigrants crossing into the country, coupled with the lack of deportations and \u200bthe mounting backlog in immigration\u200c courts, highlights the severity of the crisis. It is essential to address the issue\u200b honestly and without resorting \u2064to\u2062 misleading narratives or strawman arguments to fully comprehend the implications of the border crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been recent nonsense about the southern border from the Biden administration&#8217;s smug Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. 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