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Why would any president destroy the US southern border?
The left sometimes “pounces” on anybody daring to counsel the Biden administration green-lighted unlawful immigration to gain new constituents for agendas that in any other case had been with out public assist.
The left smears critics of open borders as racist conspiracists spreading the “Great Replacement Theory.”
Yet for years Democrats and leftists themselves had written triumphalist books with titles like “The Emerging Democratic Majority.”
And typically they crowed that “demography is destiny.”
A number of left-wing globalists even boasted of a new borderless world by which anybody might stay anyplace they wished.
Not too long in the past Texas state Rep. Gene Wum, chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, jumped the shark to say out loud what’s normally left unsaid about the Democratic agenda: “The day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning, because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone.”
The similar unapologetic left-wing weaponization of unlawful immigration is happening in Europe. Sheer numbers there have already radically modified the demography — and political constituencies — of the continent.
Recently the former Spanish “minister of equality,” an energized Irene Montero, provided an unambiguous rant: “I hope for ‘replacement theory,’ I hope we can sweep this country of fascists and racists with immigrants. Whatever their skin color, whether ‘Chinese, black or brown.’”
The climax of the new hubris in the United States was the Biden administration’s destruction of the southern border and even rudimentary enforcement of federal immigration law.
On some days the Biden inflow exceeded anybody’s wildest creativeness, at a price of 10,000 unlawful entrants per day.
The Homeland “Security” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, in Baghdad Bob-style, often pontificated that the border was “secure” — as hundreds illegally swarmed the border, with out health and even rudimentary background checks.
The left’s political agenda for unlawful immigration was to be realized both instantly via compromised poll integrity, or quickly enough by warping the Census-based reapportionment of House districts.
No surprise there’s now near-hysterical Democratic opposition to even primary national necessities of a photograph ID to vote.
Yet historically liberal polls like Gallup and Pew show that 83% to 84% of Americans assist necessary presentation of a voter photo-ID.
Usually the left fawns over European protocols. But it now grows quiet when reminded that 46 of 47 European nations, even these ruled by the left, require IDs to vote.
Apparently, Democrats assumed that when 10 million more of the world’s poorest had illegally crashed the southern border, with out audit or English proficiency, they might filter all through American society and turn out to be unattainable to repatriate.
Soon open borders would flip more states blue, in addition to increase their congressional seats. Illegals had been to be redefined as mere “residents,” and sometimes recipients of mail-in ballots.
The actuality that thousands and thousands of new poor would grow the welfare state, increase authorities in any respect ranges, require far more taxes and fuel the DEI binary of oppressed/oppressors had been added advantages.
The nexus between the $9 billion Somali welfare fraud and Minnesota Democratic officers presents a sharp reminder of how the immigration/welfare/DEI exemption industry was created and guarded by authorities.
President Joe Biden’s new 10 million illegal entrants could have elevated the current pool of unlawful aliens (20 million?) to 30 million.
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That complete in flip radically grew the current group of 20 million legal foreign-born residents and legal residents of varied classes.
So when Trump took workplace in January 2025, the US had admitted a document high of foreign-born residents. They now make up some 16% of the population and maybe 53 million in precise numbers.
The influxes got here at time when too typically the melting-pot custom of integration, assimilation and acculturation had been reviled, and to be outdated by salad-bowl ethnic chauvinism and separatism.
Yet the triumphant Left by no means imagined a Trump reelection.
Nor might it grasp totally President Donald Trump’s counterrevolutionary effort to secure the border and undo the Biden nihilism.
Even more surreal to Democrats had been Trump’s efforts to reinstate the integrity and supremacy of federal immigration law.
No one actually believed Trump would search to search out and deport thousands and thousands who had filtered via 50 states.
Most had been having fun with de facto immunity by way of a whole lot of left-wing district court docket judges and blue-state officers of the Tim Walz/Gavin Newsom type.
But if any of its immigrant constituencies in the future — akin to the 55% of Hispanic males who voted for Trump in 2024 — dared to vote on standards different than federal entitlements, ethnic solidarity and Democratic coercion, the left would close the border rapidly.
Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness.
