The Patriot Post® · In Brief: The Utter Insanity of Joe Biden's Open Border
We’ve hit the subject of immigration hard recently here, here, and here. The always astute Victor Davis Hanson adds, as only he can, some additional perspective.
There have been more than 8 million illegal entries into the United States since Joe Biden was elected president. He appointed Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security, whose apparent prime directive was to destroy the southern border.
That task is precisely what Mayorkas has now accomplished. The result is that the border is neither “porous” nor “problematic,” but nonexistent, kaput, vanished—and by design.
In one of the most surreal experiences in the history of the United States, each night Americans see video clips of thousands of foreign nationals crossing the border en masse with complete impunity—as if the entire corpus of federal immigration law has been dynamited.
But by whom? And why?
As millions of citizens watch this travesty, they hear only from Mayorkas, Biden, and his Pravda megaphone, Karin Jean-Pierre, that the border is “secure"—a Baghdad Bob narrative that they know that we know is an utter lie.
Surely, this deliberate effort to destroy an entire border, to invite in millions of unchecked illegal aliens, and to violate oaths to execute faithfully the laws of the land are impeachable offenses for both Biden and Mayorkas. If not, what are?
Hanson asks some big questions, and then he argues that "there are at least 10 ways their open border is insidiously destroying the United States.” Legal immigration is one.
Does legal immigration still exist? Are we still requiring those who would enter the U.S. legally to provide required documents, undergo audits, and complete background checks?
Is not the current policy de facto punishing those who follow the law by tying them up in bureaucratic red tape for years as we reward unlawful behavior by greenlighting amnesties for lawbreakers?
Eroding respect for laws more generally and creating more government dependency are two more. And then there’s enriching and empowering Mexican cartels while trashing American citizens and devaluing citizenship itself.
Finally, it undermines a key leftist narrative about racism.
The woke Left defines America as incurably racist. So how could the nonwhite in the millions possibly flee their home countries, where they compose a majority of the population, only to seek out the one country in the world where they are told toxic “white privilege” is unsurpassed?
In short, Hanson concludes, “If the amorality of illegal immigration were not so deleterious to Americans, its absurdity would be laughable.”