Why Biden’s new immigration attacks won’t work
Conn Carroll
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President Joe Biden’s complete failure to secure the southern border has been his weakest issue for a longer period of time than any other issue.
Before the Afghanistan debacle, before inflation, before the epidemic of unpunished shoplifting, the southern border descended into chaos within weeks of Biden taking power. As a candidate, Biden invited migrants from around the world to come and illegally cross our southern border. As president, he immediately halted all deportations, and he ended the successful and popular “Remain in Mexico” program.
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The results were quickly apparent. Illegal crossings shot up and haven’t gone down since. Everyone knows Biden is to blame. That is why Biden has had a negative approval rating on immigration longer than any other issue.
Now, all of a sudden, despite polls showing voters have no confidence in Biden’s ability to handle the issue, Biden is going on offense on immigration.
Specifically, the Biden campaign is attacking former President Donald Trump’s recent comments that he would carry out the “largest deportation operation” in United States history.
“Donald Trump is offering us a vision of what America would be under his second term in the White House in 2025,” Biden campaign Hispanic media director Maria Carolina Casado told CBS News. “This is not about restoring our immigration system — that he basically destroyed — or border security. This is about hurting our Latino community, hurting our families and family separation.”
The problem with this line of attack is that it is exceedingly clear to the vast majority of people that it is Biden, not Trump, that “basically destroyed” border security. The numbers don’t lie.
The other problem with the attack is that Trump is famously incapable of fulfilling his own promises on border security. As a candidate and then as president, Trump often repeated the claim that he was going to finish the wall on the southern border and he was going to make Mexico pay for it.
Neither happened. Trump added a couple miles to the existing wall, but came nowhere near finishing it, and Mexico didn’t pay for a single cent of it. Now he’s calling all those people who believed he could get Mexico to pay for the wall losers.
Trump says a lot of things. A lot of them turn out to be false. Voters know this. There is more than a little bit of theater in Trump’s brand of politics and voters are in on the joke. They know not to take everything Trump says seriously.
What voters also know is that when Trump was president, the border was secure, and migrants who illegally crossed the border were returned to Mexico.
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Now that Biden is president, however, migrants who illegally cross the southern border are released into the country to go wherever they want. As a direct result, our southern border has been flooded with record numbers of illegal immigrants, and those same illegal immigrants are now bankrupting cities across the country.
If the Biden campaign thinks comparing his record on immigration with Trump’s is a path to victory, get ready for a second Trump term.