{"id":2409028,"date":"2025-03-03T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T18:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-and-weak-republicans-betrayed-america-on-the-border\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T13:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T18:35:21","slug":"dems-and-weak-republicans-betrayed-america-on-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-and-weak-republicans-betrayed-america-on-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems And Weak Republicans Betrayed America On The Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fdems-and-weak-republicans-betrayed-america-on-the-border%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=2409028&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--><p>In his 2023 State of the Union Address, then-President Joe Biden emphasized\u200d that America&#8217;s border issues would require congressional action, advocating for his\u2062 &#8220;complete immigration reform&#8221; plan. This initiative proposed amnesty for approximately \u206211 million undocumented immigrants and a policy\u2064 that \u2062would allow 30,000 individuals from specific countries (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela) to enter the U.S. legally each month while\u2063 concurrently expelling an equal number trying to cross\u200c illegally. Biden acknowledged that his plan wouldn\u2019t \u200bresolve all \u2062immigration challenges but aimed to manage the situation better.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forwarding a year, Biden&#8217;s approach faced criticism, particularly from certain Republican senators who supported a bipartisan bill that would, controversially, \u2064enable around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-ron-desantis-we-have-to-reject-open-borders\/\" title=\"Gov. Ron Desantis: We have to reject open ...s\">2 million illegal immigrants<\/a> to enter the U.S. annually while granting Biden discretionary powers concerning border closures. In contrast, a Republican-led House bill from the previous \u200dyear included \u200cstricter \u2063measures aimed at securing the southern border, reminiscent of\u200b Trump-era policies, but was dismissed by \u2064Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s proposed reforms and the bipartisan bill never passed, and statistics indicated that border encounters sharply declined under Trump\u2019s management compared to the subsequent years.\u2064 Critics argue that the attempts to grant amnesty and \u200callow mass immigration were\u2064 misguided,\u200b suggesting that\u200b stricter policies\u2064 could achieve better border\u200b control without compromising national \u200csovereignty. The article posits that effective border security does not necessitate a trade-off \u2063with amnesty.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&ldquo;American border problems won&rsquo;t be fixed until Congress acts,&rdquo; then-President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5z6Jz1uiMGM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> during his 2023 State of the Union Address, urging Congress to pass his &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fierce-north-carolina-congressional-race-could-hinge-on-other-names-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Fierce North Carolina congressional race could hinge on other names - Washington Examiner\">comprehensive immigration reform&#038;rdquo<\/a>; plan.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;comprehensive immigration reform&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-8-year-citizenship-path-immigrants-4f2dffdb7a688e1e126a62a8acd59730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plan<\/a> that Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/02\/18\/statement-by-president-joseph-r-biden-jr-on-introduction-of-the-u-s-citizenship-act-of-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pitched<\/a> would have granted amnesty to an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">estimated 11 million illegal aliens<\/a> who broke the law and treated America as nothing more than an economic opportunity zone to be exploited.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s approach to fixing the immigration crisis also included a plan that would have allowed 30,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the country per month and would allow them to work legally for up to two years while expelling up to 30,000 aliens from the same countries if they tried to enter the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/01\/05\/joe-biden-immigration-plan-el-paso-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> the action wouldn&rsquo;t &ldquo;fix our entire immigration system&rdquo; but that it would &ldquo;help us a good deal in better managing what is a difficult challenge.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward one year later, Biden and his Democratic Party along with a handful of useful idiots from the Republican Party informed the country that the only way to stop the mass flow of illegal immigration was to sign onto a Trojan horse bill that was trotted out as &ldquo;bipartisan&rdquo; as if to make it more palatable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2024\/02\/07\/susan-collins-one-of-four-republicans-to-back-border-security-bill-after-trump-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Backed<\/a> by so-called Republican senators like Oklahoma&rsquo;s James Lankford, Alaska&rsquo;s Lisa Murkowski, Utah&rsquo;s Mitt Romney and Maine&rsquo;s Susan Collins, the bill would have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/06\/nothing-about-the-rigged-senate-border-bill-is-in-the-national-interest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">allowed<\/a> approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/06\/senate-border-bill-is-nothing-but-a-democrat-propaganda-op\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2 million<\/a> illegal aliens into the U.S. over a year. The legislation would also have given Biden the power to suspend border closures for 45 days per year if he decided it was in the &ldquo;national interest,&rdquo; as explained by my colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/06\/senate-border-bill-is-nothing-but-a-democrat-propaganda-op\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kylee Griswold<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Republican-led House passed a border bill the year prior that would have actually secured the southern border. The bill incorporated several key Trump-era policies such as reinstating the Remain-in-Mexico policy, restricting asylum eligibility to legal ports of entry, and preserving Title 42. But Democrats dismissed it and instead insisted with their &ldquo;bipartisan&rdquo; bill that true border security could only be achieved by allowing millions of illegal immigrations to flood the nation annually.  <\/p>\n<p>Neither Biden&rsquo;s &ldquo;comprehensive immigration reform&rdquo; plan nor the &ldquo;bipartisan&rdquo; border bill were passed. Biden&rsquo;s plan to allow 30,000 migrants in <em>per month<\/em> did nothing to stop the invasion &mdash; in fact, it only &ldquo;legalized&rdquo; the invasion. And yet southern border encounters have dramatically dropped since President Donald Trump assumed office.<\/p>\n<p>Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/1896568489072349212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highlighted<\/a> by Fox News shows that southern border encounters for the month of February were 8,326 compared to 189,913 in 2024, 156,630 in 2023 and 166,010 in 2022. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>&#128680; BORDER ENCOUNTERS BY THE YEAR &ndash; FEBRUARY<\/p>\n<p>&#128308; 2022: 166,010<br \/>&#128308; 2023: 156,630<br \/>&#128308; 2024: 189,913<br \/>&#128994; 2025: 8,326<\/p>\n<p>The Trump Effect. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PyZN2ijoVF\">pic.twitter.com\/PyZN2ijoVF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/1896568489072349212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1896078015752294745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put it in a post<\/a> on X, &ldquo;The number of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border illegally in President Trump&rsquo;s first full month in office plunged to a level not seen in at least 25 years &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But how could that be? We were reliably informed that in order to secure our border we had to grant amnesty to criminals and allow millions of illegal aliens to enter the country in a year.<\/p>\n<p>As I previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/20\/trumps-border-success-proves-republicans-never-had-to-negotiate-our-sovereignty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, &ldquo;Trump signed a series of executive orders upon taking office that ordered construction of the border wall to resume, declared a national emergency at the southern border, reinstated his &lsquo;Remain in Mexico&rsquo; policy &hellip; and authorized the National Guard to work with Customs and Border Patrol agents to secure the border &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats tried to force the American people into accepting amnesty and controlled invasion as the price for so-called &ldquo;border security.&rdquo; It was a calculated maneuver meant to weaken our sovereignty, and a few so-called Republicans fell into the trap. But as the historic border numbers seen under Trump prove, Americans never had to concede their sovereignty to gain sovereignty &mdash; they just needed a leader.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden stated that Congress must act to resolve border issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2409029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-11.50.12%E2%80%AFAM-e1741020778437-1024x576.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33709,3933,3813,3756],"class_list":["post-2409028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-border-security","tag-dems","tag-immigration","tag-republicans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-11.50.12%E2%80%AFAM-e1741020778437-1024x576.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409032,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409028\/revisions\/2409032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2409029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}