How Joe Biden Turned Immigration From Treasured History to Deadly

RedState 

A cartoon by the late JB Handelsman in the New Yorker has stuck with me all these years. It shows a Native American family standing on the beach watching a boatload of Pilgrims row ashore from the Mayflower.

To me, it’s a useful reminder that to some extent, no matter how extended, with the exception of those Native Americans, we all ultimately are immigrants on this blessed continent. The question should be, how can we wisely, humanely, and efficiently manage a steady flow of newcomers who add value while putting America First, as President Trump so aptly puts it.

My father and mother were immigrants from Canada, where the Great Depression lasted longer. As a child, I can remember my mother’s citizenship ceremony. It was a big deal.

Without legal immigrants coming in varying waves throughout our history, the United States and those of us presently enjoying its bounties wouldn’t have a fraction of the success we have all enjoyed. Now, since Americans are marrying later and, thus, having fewer children, we’ll need many more legal immigrants in coming decades to continue the growth and prosperity, manning business, industry, and the services.

Unfortunately, Joseph R. Biden Jr., our misbegotten former president, and his seditious puppeteers, who’ve yet to be punished, have sullied our historic immigration story by their wanton disregard of our laws and culture for political gain. 

During Biden’s pathetic 1,461-day reign of error, his administration willfully allowed upwards of 10 million immigrants to enter the country illegally, undocumented, unvetted, and untracked. That’s a crime by him and them. 

The goal, of course, was to create an immense cohort of appreciative newcomers and their progeny who would vote for Democrats as long as that party's operatives could prevent any effective, uniform system of voter ID.

Biden people even cravenly moved thousands of illegals inland on buses and unannounced midnight flights, where they’ve mingled with the existing urban population of illegals, making detection and eviction more difficult. (See Minnesota.)

This has added immense unfunded financial pressures of billions on local community resources for education, health, welfare, housing, and law enforcement. Local taxpayers will be footing those bills for decades.

Thankfully, President Trump stopped that invasion on Day One of Term Two.

Here's an ugly, unjust reality: It's not fair to the thousands of immigrants who are following all the entry rules and patiently waiting abroad in line for years. But despite any campaign promises, we will never expel all of the new illegals, just as we have never expelled all or even most of illegal immigrants in past decades. 

We can try. Every one gone is progress. And the obvious effort might deter others from coming in the future. But the enduring national will and the means for such a years-long, contentious process are simply not there. Biden's handlers cynically knew that.

President Trump is wisely focused on deporting criminals among the immigrants.

The fact is, despite specious claims by sanctuary-city advocates, every one of those 10 million immigrants broke the law by illegally entering the country. Hence, the term "illegal immigrants," which some media avoid to fit their narrative. 

Thousands also have broken other laws while present in this country, and thousands of others came here because they broke laws back home and fled apprehension.

Now, the administration has begun the complex, costly, and unnecessarily controversial process of removing illegal immigrants accused of crimes here and in their home countries.

From Jan. 20 last year to Dec. 11, the administration arrested 595,000 illegal immigrants. Of those, the Department of Homeland Security reports 416,000 or 70 percent, have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges just in the U.S. 

That’s a lot of unnecessary crime, including awful rapes and homicides, inflicted on innocent Americans by the willful negligence of Biden and his cronies.

Now, ask yourself who could sincerely oppose removing criminals from American society? Key word: sincerely.

Though it’s hard to wrap our minds around this, today, there are Americans legally protesting ICE agents legally arresting illegal immigrants who have committed other felonies here and in their homelands. Inexplicably, some protesting immigrants wave the flag of the country they fled; to my knowledge, they were neither forced nor invited, and no one is holding them here.

There are, however, some protesters who are sincerely motivated by hourly wages from leftist or progressive organizations for confronting ICE agents, especially if media are present.