Vice President Kamala Harris stirred up controversy last week with her claim that the southern border is secure, drawing ridicule from conservative pundits as well as some Texas Democrats. Yet few commenters have considered that she might genuinely mean what she says: the border is exactly as secure as Democrats intend.
Over the last year, according to internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, a record 1.8 million people were encountered illegally crossing the southern border, compared to only 3.6 million births in the United States. When combined with the average of 1 million legal immigrants per year, this means that nearly 45% of population growth this year will be from immigration, even without counting illegal immigrants who the border patrol did not encounter.
These demographics benefit Democrats, even while they are disastrous for average Americans. Among Hispanic immigrants, 70-80%vote Democrat regularly, and as Democrats continue to oppose voter ID in many states, unknown numbers of illegal immigrants could vote in future elections.
Due to the dominant legal doctrine of birthright citizenship, all children born to illegal immigrant parents on U.S. soil are eligible to vote. According to Pew Research, children of immigrants favor Democrats by double digits in every single region in America.
Within a generation, the face of America will change drastically, and the country moved far to the left even of where it currently is. Harris and her allies have no incentive to pump the brakes on immigration. Immigrants, for the Biden administration, are not foreigners to be vetted and made subject to America’s laws. are future voters needing to be welcomed.
Claims like those made by Harris should not come as a surprise. Neither should Americans be shocked at the recent report from the New York Post that the Biden administration has been flying illegal immigrants by night into swing states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.
The Biden administration’s immigration policy has not been a failure, it has succeeded in its primary objective: to gain more voters for Democrats. The consequence is disaster for ordinary Americans.
In addition to changing the American cultural and political makeup, high levels of immigration bring with them more unemployment, lower wages, higher costs, and increased levels of drugs and crime. Fox News reported in July that the number of crimes committed by illegal immigrants soared in 2021, with assaults rising 400%, murders rising 1,900%, and drug charges rising 453%.
Average Americans are now looking around their once-flourishing middle class communities and having to face skyrocketing crime, homelessness, and unemployment. But for the political and economic elites who favor this immigration policy these issues aren’t a concern.
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard a few weeks ago, the response of the pro-immigration left was a desperate attempt to hide their upper-class NIMBYism in faux social justice outrage. Democrats are more than willing to reap the benefits of unfettered immigration, but it has become clear that the consequences will be borne by the American middle class.
When Harris, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, or other representatives of the Biden administration say the border is secure they are not lying. They are telling ordinary Americans that unrestricted immigration is here to stay, and that those Americans, not Democrats, have to pay the price.
