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Meeting with U.S. allies in Europe this week, President Joe Biden said he would not let Ukraine into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But since the first days of his presidency, Mr. Biden has allowed millions of illegal migrants into the U.S. Last week the Dutch government fell over the immigration issue, and the Biden government could fall next year for the same reason.
Mr. Biden’s border policy is easily explained: Reverse Trump. In 2015, Donald Trump began his improbable trip to the presidency with a simple idea—the Wall. By building some sort of wall along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border (roughly the distance from San Diego to Chicago), he would deter illegal border crossings.
The Trump and Biden border policies, though polar opposites, shared one reality. We got both the Wall and then nothing because the U.S. political system has proved itself incapable of shaping a coherent policy on immigration, which considering America’s history, should be seen as an embarrassment.
At the moment, our interest in the past has telescoped to just two aspects of American history, the slave trade of the early 17th century and the rise in the past two years of gender identity. The rest of American history has fallen into irrelevance. Some reminding is necessary. A cliché of our history is that immigrants built America. The emphasis in that phrase normally is on “immigrants,” to elevate a common heritage. Right now we need more focus on the phrase’s second half—“built America.”
An underappreciated astonishment of our history is how, beginning around the 1820s, a mass of people, most of them European migrants, moved outward from the eastern seaboard. They erected towns and cities, invented practical technologies and laid the basis for America’s economic and military might—all in less than a century. Arguably this dynamic of American greatness—new people, more workers, new breakthroughs—has never stopped. But it might be stopping now.
Immigrants have fallen out of favor, here and across Europe. Gallup’s long-term data on attitudes toward immigration in the U.S. indicates that in the past two years public opinion has turned in favor of decreasing immigration. --->READ MORE HERE
200,000 people from all over the world crossed illegally last month.
President Biden avoids and keeps far away from our nation’s wide-open southern border, where 200,000 people from all over the world crossed illegally last month and every month since Biden took office almost 30 months ago. But his chief Democrat rival, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., went to the border town of Yuma, Arizona on June 6, and had some choice words for Biden’s failed policy.
“It was like a dystopian nightmare,” Kennedy said, “with all of these desperate people flooding across the wall, in a situation that clearly could have been prevented. People from all over the world, from Africa, from Uzbekistan, from Senegal, from Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Nepal, Tibet, India, Bangladesh, Peru, Colombia, we saw all of these people, these hundreds and hundreds of people coming across.
“We’ve watched about 150 people come across in the last hour,” Kennedy continued. “Altogether, people have come across right here from 117 nations in the last couple of years. In 3 years, in total, 7 million people have come across the border illegally into our country.
“And from here, they’re put on these buses, and they’re brought to the border patrol station where they’re processed. After four or five days, they’re released on their own recognizance into our country, and most of them are never seen or heard from again.”
Where did all these millions of foreigners go after they were turned loose by the Biden administration? A clue is provided by a shocking new study from the Center for Immigration Studies, which finds that students from immigrant-led households comprise 23% of public school enrollment nationwide, and in many regions the proportion is more than 65%.
Thousands of miles away, New Hampshire public schools are harmed by the immigration deluge. Next door in Massachusetts, the percentage of public students who are in immigrant households has jumped 13 to 28% in the last 30 years. --->READ MORE HERE
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