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No one is calling out the Texas Democrat for using fake tough talk to mask intentions to restore Joe Biden’s disastrous open border.
James Talarico, the left-wing Democrat ahead in some polls in the Texas U.S. Senate race against Republican Ken Paxton, has staked out a guiding border security policy idea that has puzzled many voters: “Our border should be like a front porch — it should have a welcome mat out front and a lock on the door,” he has said on the campaign trail and in his online border policy page.Whatever Talarico is signaling might matter if he becomes the first Democrat senator from Texas since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988. That’s because he proclaims on his campaign page that “Texans should be the ones to lead our country in finally pursuing comprehensive immigration reforms …” and asks voters to “imagine having a U.S. Senator from Texas who will take the charge to get that done.”
So, does Talarico’s metaphor about locking the door of Texas — owner of the longest international border of any of the contiguous states — mean he’s a hardline restrictionist who would channel Trump’s policies, which ended the worst mass migration border crisis in American history? Or does his “welcome mat” metaphor mean Talarico would start another mass migration crisis at the southern border?
The smart money is on the latter option. A careful examination of Talarico’s elaborating public statements, social media, and “commonsense border security” campaign materials demonstrates that his locked-door-welcome-mat ideas, if ever implemented, would closely replicate the Biden administration’s wide-open border and likewise induce another swamping tidal wave of humanity to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
There’s a universal principle that always determines the start or end of mass migration events. It boils down to whether American political leaders and courts allow enough illegal border jumpers to successfully enter and stay to earn enough money to at least repay their smuggling investment. If they are let in to stay, they’ll come in force because the effort is worth the smuggling money. If they’re expelled and blocked, they won’t risk the money.
A pure “welcome mat” policy, therefore, lets illegal immigrants in to earn money long-term without fear of deportation (usually while pursuing meritless political asylum or humanitarian protection claims). If they calculate for that outcome, aspiring illegal immigrants will pay regardless of whether they must beg, borrow, or steal the smuggling money. A profound real-world example happened in 2021, when the Biden administration began admitting most arriving inadmissible aliens into the country to eventually start their meritless asylum claims.
Millions from all over the world paid the smuggling fees and bum-rushed the border for the next four years, the worst mass migration crisis in American history.
Conversely, if an allegedly “locked door” policy stops, blocks, and actively deports, would-be illegal immigrants will just stay home and save their smuggling money for when the welcome mat is laid out again.
A profound real-world example of how the “locked door” works happened when Trump’s proclamation “Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion” suspended the right of illegal crossers to apply for asylum. The asylum ban, plus orders for Border Patrol and U.S. military personnel to catch everyone they could and expel them, along with at least the promise of mass interior deportations, abruptly ended the 2021-2024 crisis. Aspiring illegal aliens are still staying home rather than gambling their money against high-probability border or interior expulsion.
Masking a Biden Border Restoration
But what Talarico means when he says “locking the door” is the opposite of what Trump meant and what most Americans might think it means.
Talarico’s plan calls for restarting asylum claims at the border and fast-tracking determinations by hiring more immigration judges “so that only legitimate claims are approved, and ensure legitimate asylees receive protection quickly,” he promised at a July campaign rally. --->READ MORE HERE
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