Biden on the Border: We’re Trying To Make It Easier for People To Get Here

BIDEN and THE SANCTUARIES’ DILEMMA – ‘WE’RE TAKING STRONG ACTION TO MAKE IT EASIER PERSONS TO GET HERE’ This newsletter previously wrote about the fundamental difference When it comes to the U.S./Mexico border crisis, there is no difference between Republicans or Democrats. When confronted with more than 2 million illegal border crossers overwhelming U.S. authorities on the border last year — and 250,000 more crossers last month indicates the figure will be even higher this year — Republicans want to find a way to stop, or dramatically reduce, the flow. Democrats are willing to accept it.

This isn’t an exaggeration. It is not an exaggeration. Let’s take a look at what President Joe Biden said. said last week In Mexico City following his summit with Andres Manual Lopez Obrador, the Mexican President, and Justin Trudeau (the Canadian Prime Minister) “We cannot wall ourselves off from shared problems,” Biden made a subtle dig at President Donald Trump’s border policies, taking aim at them. “People … have to make it through jungles and a long journey to the border. And many are victimized, not only in terms of what they have to pay but victimized physically in other ways. And so, we’re trying to make it easier for people to get here, opening up the capacity to get here, but not have them go through that godawful process.”

“We’re trying to make it easier for people to get here.” Could the president have stated his position more clearly? Biden’s appointees in the Department of Homeland Security created a new way to do business, called “Apple.” “CBP One,” Where illegal crossings are possible, they can schedule an appointment to enter the United States. U.S. officials will wait to wave them through. “We’re trying to … incentivize a safe and orderly way” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will help you cross into the United States. said recently, “and cut out the smuggling organizations.”

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After a four hour visit, Biden spoke. El Paso, for which federal or local officials cleaned up The president could not see the unpleasant effects of his policy in the streets of El Paso, where illegal crossers have slept in freezing temperatures for thousands. A week after Biden arrived, Eric Adams, a top Democratic official, visited El Paso to see what was happening every day.

Adams met with a number of illegal border crossingers He also stated that he wanted the government to speed up their availability of work permits. He made it clear that he didn’t want them to work in New York.

“There is no room in New York,” Adams said. “New York cannot accept more. We can’t. This is a city that deserves it. New York has welcomed approximately 40,000 immigrants to date. Most of them came in buses from Texas and Colorado. Greg Abbott (R.-TX), and Gov. Jared Polis, D-CO), and Greg Abbot (R-Texas) have both made it a policy to send some people elsewhere in the United States. Oscar Leeser, El Paso’s Democratic mayor and Adams’s host, has sent immigrants to New York.

Adams’s statement That “there is no room in New York” This was in sharp contrast to the city’s policy of being a sanctuary for illegal or legal immigrants. The city is proud to welcome and support immigrants regardless of their legal status. New York officials were often praised for their defiance of Trump’s attempts to enforce immigration laws during the Trump presidency.

Adams was also part of this. When he was Brooklyn’s borough president in April 2019, he tweeted: “Make no mistake, New York City will ALWAYS stand up to Donald Trump and call out his cynical plots to divide our country. To anyone in the world fleeing hatred and oppression, the ultimate city of immigrants wants you to remember: you’re ALWAYS welcome here.”

That was back then. Now, Mayor Adams claims that they have only borne a fraction of the illegal border crossings’ burden on their border cities and towns. “There is no room in New York. New York cannot take more.”

All those noble-sounding phrases? Concerning sanctuary and New York’s role as a beacon for immigrants? The arrival of 40,000 illegal border-crossers appears to have done serious damage to these deeply held beliefs. Sometimes reality can be more devastating than we think.

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