Opinion
By Michael Hernandez, 9-11-24
The Pro-Border presidential candidate is Donald J. Trump. He is the one who built the Wall. He is the one who closed the border. He is the one who believes a sovereign nation needs a closed border.
What does the Republican National Committee platform say concerning the border?:
- 1. Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion.
- 2. Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.
- 10) Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence and lock-up violent offenders.
(June 4, 2024: BBC By Bernd Debusmann)
SENDING MIGRANTS BACK
“In March 2020, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Trump administration invoked Title 42: the policy allowed US authorities to swiftly expel migrants-including asylum seekers at the border. Nearly 400,000 people were detained and expelled between its implementation and January 2021, when Trump left the White House.”
PAROLE
The Trump “administration led an effort to decrease the number of migrants on parole in the US and in 2018 announced the creation of the ‘Remain in Mexico’ program. Parole is where the government allows migrants into the US even if they don’t have a visa or can’t qualify for one.
“Just after taking office, US President Joe Biden vowed to put an end to…Donald Trump’s immigration policies…Of the hundreds of immigration-focused actions the Biden White House has taken…dozens have been aimed at reversing or undoing the policies of his predecessor…The administration moved to suspend Remain in Mexico
on Mr. Biden’s first day in the White House in January 2021. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to officially terminate the policy in June the same year. But a ruling by a Trump-appointed federal court judge in Texas found that the administration had improperly cancelled the policy. It was restarted in December 2021.
“Mr. Biden is said to be one of the presidents (who) rely most on parole, a practice which has existed since the 1950s. As many as 30,000 migrants a month are able to fly to the US legally on parole with a sponsorship under programs for Afghans and Ukrainians, Cubans, Venezuelans (gang members have taken over apartments in Colorado), Nicaraguans, and Haitians (some who practice the eating of pets).”
President Joe Biden deputized Vice President Kamala Harris as the “Border Czar” in 2021.
(July 28, 2024: The Washington Post By Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti, and Sara Frostenson)
“Ilegal border crossings soared to record levels under President Biden, averaging 2 million per year from 2021 to 2023. The migrants have arrived in every state in the country, overwhelming cities such as New York, Chicago, and Denver as newcomers seek shelter and aid…Border apprehensions exceed 1.3 million during the first nine months of the 2024 fiscal year.
“Once (Biden’s) administration announced it would not use the Title 42. Policy to turn back unaccompanied minors who arrived without a parent or guardian, their number spiked. Images of migrant children and teens packed shoulder-to-shoulder in detention facilities produced the administration’s first border emergency.
“Teens and children crossing without their parents arrived in record numbers during the first three years of Biden’s presidency. Families and single adults have crossed at historic rates as well.
“Migrants are coming from a wider variety of countries than ever before. In 2019, the busiest year for border crossings under Trump, about 80 percent of migrants taken into U.S. custody were from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. Last year those three counties accounted for fewer than half of all border crossings.
“Migrants from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Senegal and Mauritania—along with other nations in Africa, Europe and Asia—have crossed from Mexico in numbers U.S. authorities have never seen. For example, 14,965 migrants from China arrived across the southern border between October 2023 and December 2023. Border Patrol data shows, up from 29 over that that same period in 2020. The Border Patrol encountered 9,518 migrants from India during that same three-month span, compared with 56 during that period in 2020.” Migrants from China and India are coming to exploit America technology.
“The challenge of processing, detaining and potentially deporting migrants from such a wide array of nations had strained the Biden administration, which often resorted to releasing migrants into the United States when facilities became overcrowded and requests for humanitarian protection couldn’t be resolved quickly.” Americans will no longer accept violent migrant crime in our cities.
“In the Year after Title 42 ended in May 2023, Biden officials deported or returned roughly 740,000 people to Mexico and other countries, more than any year since 2010, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
“Biden’s higher numbers are partly the result of much greater volume of illegal crossings.
“The Biden administration has released more than 3.3 million border crossers into the United States since 2021. These migrants make up less than half of the 7.6 million who have been apprehended at the southern border.
“On Biden’s first day in office, his administration ordered a pause on most arrests and deportations form the interior of the United States by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).”
“Deportations of migrants arrested by ICE have fallen to about 35,000 per year since Biden took office.
“Biden officials say their implementation of a parole program in January 2023, allowing entry by 30,00 migrants per month…has reduced the border influx.
“Biden’s handling of border security was among his worst-rated issues in polls before he ended his campaign July 21 and endorsed Kamala Harris, his vice president, for the presidency.
“Former President Donald Trump is promising to close the border and round up immigrants using U.S. troops.
“Trump slashed U.S. refugee admissions and set the cap at 15,000 in 2021—the lowest since the 1980 Refugee Act.
“Biden promised to rebuild the admissions program and in June, the White House said the program is “stronger than ever…The U.S. government plans to resettle more than 100,000 refugees this fiscal year, the most in three decades.
“In 2020, the Trump administration instituted a new citizenship exam (which advocates said was more difficult to pass). After Biden took office, he restored the old exam and encouraged more immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship.
“An estimated 9 million legal permanent residents are eligible to become citizens, which allows them to serve on juries apply for federal jobs and vote in U.S. elections.
“The U.S. immigration court system—a branch of the Department of Justice
(is) facing a huge case backlog with the number of cases more than doubled (since Biden took office) surpassing three million.
“The inability of the system to settle cases quickly has become an incentive for additional illegal migrations, because border crossers with weak asylum claims can file for protection and spend years living and working the United States before having to worry about the risk of deportation.”
The Center Square (U.S. Customs and Border Protection Data): “More than 10 million people have been reported illegally entering the United States since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the greatest number in history and of any administration. They total more than the individual populations of 41 states. (Note: Total illegal border crossers apprehended nationwide were 8,396,198 and gotaways numbered 1,678,979 which totals at least 10,075,177. Many Republicans claim that these stats are conservative and are really double).
Breitbart (Jan. 27 By John Binder): “Joe Biden’s parole pipeline freed 745,000 foreign nationals into U.S. in 2023—exceeding two months of American births.”
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Democrats want open borders because this leads to VOTES: The Democrats are pushing for all illegals—all migrants—to be given the right to vote—even without citizenship. Biden, Harris, and Democrats know that they cannot win the 2024 presidential election without cheating—without finding more votes. This is their strategy!
This is why there is only one presidential candidate that deserves your vote. The Pro-Border presidential candidate is Donald J. Trump! He is the one who built the Wall. He is the one who closed the border. He is the one who believes a sovereign nation needs a closed border. Pro Border: Vote Donald J. Trump!
Michael Hernandez, from California is co-founder of the Citizens Journal—Ventura County’s online news service. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor. Mr. Hernandez can be contacted at [email protected] and is editor of the weekly “Stories Speak Volumes,” “Nov. 5 Election Day Countdown” and “Revive America: Make America Great Again.”
