This kind of stuff drives me bonkers.
As President Joe Biden arrived in Texas on Sunday for his first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott hand-delivered a scathing letter to the president, criticizing his border policies...
"Even the city you visit has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texans experience on a daily basis," Abbott wrote, alleging that the chaos was the direct result of the Biden administration failing to enforce federal immigration laws...
"Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings," he said. "Texans are paying an especially high price for your failure, sometimes with their very lives, as local leaders from your own party will tell you if given the chance."
Here's an illustration of how that exchange went.
Why is this complicated? The whole point of the open border is to bring in more blue voters. With 5,000,000 across the line in two years, it's been a spectacular success for President Biden and his team. They couldn't have wished for anything more, not even in their wildest dreams. Abbott is yelling, "Well done, Joe! Texas is overrun with new Democrat voters! Everything is unfolding as you wished! You're an absolute genius! No one can stop you now!"
Until Greg and his compadres in the other governors' mansions start seriously discussing secession because the agreement between the states and the Federal government in Article IV Section 4 has been broken, nothing is going to change.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Emphasis mine.
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You know, KT, it is all well and good for you to opine about what other people are saying about what is going on at the border 1000 miles away from you in Texas, but I can get that from anyone. Personally, given that you live right there on the Mexico/California border, I'd be much more interested in what you are seeing personally with your own eyes, and what you know from being there on the spot.
So what is going on right there at the San Diego/Tijuana border crossing? What are the actual policies in effect where you are, and what are the actual results that you are seeing?
Tim,
Fair enough. I live in San Diego, about 18 miles from the border. I also own a “trailer park” trailer in AZ about 30 miles east of the border in Yuma (where I am as I type).
My experience is that San Diego has a significant issue with illegals. They have been bused into the county (and dropped at ‘transit stations’ by CBP (see: https://youtu.be/DaQ6xdhTvL8). But you should know that the Trump wall is nearly complete in San Diego county.
Yuma area is much worse due to a huge gap in the wall (see: https://kyma.com/news/local-news/top-stories/2022/12/21/migrant-families-cross-the-border-into-yuma/ ). I also highly recommend that you check out the graph of illegal entries over the last 3 years here: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters (<100,000 in Trump’s last year, >200,000 in 2021, and nearly 300,000 in 2023).
The bottom line is that we can’t handle Biden’s non-crisis. This nation IS being invaded by foreign nationals. So there’s answers for you. Now will you accept that, or will you respond that I don’t know what I am saying? And if I sound more than just a wee bit peeved, it’s because I’ve been arguing with my liberal sister who lives in Ohio (way over 1000 miles from the border) and refuses to accept that maybe, just maybe, Biden (and her) may have this one wrong.
Ohioan - thank you. I'd much rather hear from people who are on the spot directly than from people reporting second-hand on news items that they saw.
There is clearly a problem at the border, but from way up here, I can't tell exactly what it is. What it looks like from this distance, is that there just isn't a plan. To the extent that there are actual policies, it doesn't sound like they are being followed. I keep hearing conflicting claims that the problems are due to "Trump's policies" or "Biden's policies", but sometimes it sounds like they are actually the same policies and neither party wants to own up to them.
It's not even clear where these people are coming from, or whether they are "traditional" illegal immigrants from Mexico or whether they are refugees from various wars. I mean, in the YouTube link you provided, they gave a whole list of places that these people were from, and the only one they could talk to was a Russian.
I'm not really trying to argue for a position here, because I don't actually know at this point what the positions even are. I just would like to know what the heck is actually going on down there, and why nobody has ever been able to get their act together and organize things? I mean, I've been listening to people complain about "the border situation" for what seems like my entire life, and while the trouble seems to wax and wane, it never goes away entirely.
===Why is this complicated? The whole point of the open border is to bring in more blue voters.===
Well, it must be complicated, as you haven't quite grasped the point. The point is not to "bring in more blue voters" -- though, of course, the Dems don't object to illegal aliens and other non-citizens illegally voting in US elections. The point is to get the illegals counted in the Census. District A, with 1000 Dem voters and 9000 illegals has the same political clout in Congress as District B, with 5000 GOP voters and 5000 Dem voters ... and it's easier to "get out the vote" in District A.
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