According to NBC News, “The debate over immigration at the southern border is raging once again, dominating the discussion at the GOP debates, sparking criticism of the White House’s policies among a growing number of Democrats, and fueling renewed media coverage and protests in cities inundated with an influx of migrants. … Initially, Democratic leaders from Texas to New York decried such actions as ‘horrific’ and ‘bigoted,’ and vowed to be more welcoming, but as the surge has overwhelmed cities now scrambling to find emergency shelters and classroom space for migrant children, some of those same officials have reversed course. The office of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, announced he would be touring Latin American countries this week to better understand how asylum-seekers are coming to the U.S., a trip that follows his recent remarks lamenting how the arrival of 10,000 migrants a month to New York is an ‘issue that will destroy’ the city. On Wednesday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he would travel to the southern border but did not say exactly when that trip would take place. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pleaded on CNN last month that ‘if you’re going to leave your country, go somewhere else,’ and reiterated on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday that the border is ‘too open right now.’”
Anyone who follows me understands that I am entirely agnostic about immigration. Come, don’t come. Preferably emigrate “legally,” but I can’t fault people for escaping horrific conditions in another country to seek a better life in America — that’s the essence of our country. To be clear, crossing the border “illegally” (i.e., not at a border checkpoint) to claim asylum is legal. (And don’t get me started on “the wall,” for there is no wall in history that humans have not gone around, over, under, or through.) I don’t know what the solution is. To offer one is above my pay grade. But I am concerned about the politics and optics of immigration, given the “security crisis” at the border. And to be quite frank, Biden is absolutely asleep at the wheel — again. When you have Democratic mayors and governors calling the influx of immigrants a problem, then you better believe everyone else has seen it as a problem long before Democrats have. And it drives me positively nuts that dumbass Democrats continue to let RepubliKKKlans own and drive the immigration narrative. This is how traitor trump got elected in the first place, and RepubliKKKlans are about to use immigration to get re-elected because this issue is so acute that sanctuary cities are breaking and closing their doors.
I think all people want is for Biden to f***ing do something — anything at this point. Yet he’s behind the eight-ball — again. Dumbass Democrats are behind the eight-ball — still. Instead, they are just ignoring the problem. (Harris is officially in charge of managing this crisis. What has she done? Honestly, what?) Moreover, dumbass Democrats are being too glib when they use asylum law as an excuse for being unable to address the situation. This is why Biden is suffering in the polls. He’s just not doing (or perceived to be doing) anything, which I guess is a fundamental failing of dumbass Democrats generally. They keep believing people (voters) are constantly plugged into politics and understand the truth of what’s going on around them and apprehend the complexity of policies such as immigration when, in fact, they are not. Stupid Americans are too busy getting their mindless, misguided opinions from social media. Americans don’t understand that most immigrants are escaping failed states and countries run by cartels; rather, they think all immigrants crossing the border are drug mules or drug addicts, terrorists, trafficking children, or carrying leprosy or ebola. Kill me now! Welcome to stupid America.