The Democratic Party is continuing to make the border crisis worse because its priorities are twisted to focus on helping illegal immigrants at the expense of legal immigrants and American citizens.
Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the most recent example of these misplaced priorities. “There’s no question that our immigration system is broken,” Harris said. “And so much so that as the first bill that we offered after our inauguration was to fix the immigration system, which included what we must do to create a pathway for citizenship and to put the resources that are needed into the border. But sadly, people on the other side of the aisle have been playing politics with this issue.”
The first thing Harris could think of to “fix” the immigration system was to offer a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. While President Joe Biden sabotages border security by erasing successful policies, cutting down and removing barriers designed to keep illegal immigrants from crossing, and smearing Border Patrol agents, Harris wants to put a pathway to citizenship on the table immediately as part of any border “fix.”
This would, of course, immediately make the problem worse. Democrats are already encouraging illegal immigrants to cross the border in droves by cutting down barriers and promising them “sanctuary” in cities run by Democrats. Add in a guarantee that they can bypass the legal immigration system entirely with a pathway to citizenship while Biden actively makes it easier to cross the border, and they are amplifying a crisis that is already straining border towns and “sanctuary cities” alike.
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Democratic politicians simply have no interest in securing the border. Biden dragged Texas to the Supreme Court because he wanted to remove the physical barriers that Texas erected to stop the surge of border crossings. Even border Democrats, such as Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), have peddled false stories to smear people actually trying to secure the border, accusing them of getting people killed. Now Harris is framing the entire discussion of the crisis around rewarding illegal immigrants for selling their safety to smugglers to cross the border illegally.
You could not do more to enable this border crisis unless you were using taxpayer dollars to pay the smugglers directly. Biden, Harris, and the Democratic Party are not seriously trying to solve this crisis. They simply want to push the blame off on Republicans as it becomes clear that this problem is not just going to fade to the back of the political consciousness.